Recruitment Manager

Kings Active Foundation; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable foundation promoting children's activity is seeking a Recruitment Manager to oversee recruitment for over 800 seasonal positions. The role requires leadership in attracting, interviewing, and managing recruitment processes while ensuring safeguarding standards are met. Candidates should have team management experience and be committed to the mission of promoting children's welfare through active engagement.

Benefits

Enhanced pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Free places on holiday programmes for children

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of team management or leadership experience.
• Minimum of 1 year in the Recruitment sector, ideally at management level.
• Experience of working with budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment campaigns and processes to attract seasonal staff.
• Manage a team of recruiters and interview candidates.
• Ensure safeguarding standards are met throughout the recruitment process.

Skills

Team management

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Safeguarding knowledge

Job description

If you're looking for a dynamic role where you can grow and apply your leadership and organisational skills in a team that works hard for something we care about - this is the role for you!

We're looking for a Recruitment Manager to take responsibility for the day to day management of seasonal recruitment activity, ensuring we meet annual targets for 800+ seasonal positions working with children and young people.

Duties And Responsibilities

The Recruitment Manager will lead on our campaigns and processes to attract a high volume of seasonal staff to work with children and bring our programmes to life. You'll generate and apply attraction strategies, line manage a team of recruiters, lead candidate interviews, implement and measure recruitment targets and activity and recommend improvements to the Head of Department and Senior Leadership Team.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and safer recruitment is central to the way we work, so you'll be expected to share our commitment to safeguarding, and will be responsible for ensuring safer recruitment processes are followed, implementing working practices that ensure safety, suitability and quality expectations are met, even for late hires.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruitment Activity: Set staffing targets and volume expectations, build professional networks to attract potential candidates, identify marketing opportunities, manage partnerships with clients and job boards, be the first point of escalation for candidate decisions, interview volume and second stage interviews, identify and escalate challenges with volume or quality of applications, provide safer recruitment support to Recruitment team
• Safer Recruitment: Work with the Head of Recruitment and Compliance to shape and maintain recruitment policies and procedures, ensure seasonal recruitment targets are met in good time for candidate onboarding and training, ensure safeguarding requirements and standards are met throughout the recruitment process, ensure staffing policies are met including staff ratios, qualifications and experience requirements plus venue or site-specific requirements
• Leadership: Line Manage a team of Recruiters, provide whole department leadership in the absence of the Head of Recruitment, audit check quality of interviews and candidate recruitment experience, manage and monitor weekly performance outputs and feed back to Head of Recruitment, budget management

Personal Specification

At least 2 years of team management or leadership experience, at least 1 year of experience in the Recruitment sector, ideally at management level, mentoring or coaching experience, ability to problem-solve, willingness to take decisions, high level of written and verbal communication, working knowledge of safeguarding, experience of working with budgets, fully supportive of our mission and values

Our Culture & Benefits

Our People: Work in our like-minded, dedicated and passionate team that aligns with our mission and shared purpose - to get children active, having fun and learning together. Salary: £30,000 DOE, pension: we offer more than the norm, with an enhanced pension and employer contributions (5%), we also offer a Group Life Assurance Scheme. Holiday: In addition to the standard 28 days, we offer a generous Christmas break and additional holiday days after 2 years of service. Work Patterns: We typically work to 37.5 hours per week, within 8am-6pm Mon to Fri but in the modern working world, flexibility is key and embracing peak demand at popular times of the year is required from our team.

Our Meetings: We start every week with a Monday Morning Meeting for the whole team to connect, we're also deliberate about meeting formally every 3 months with a Quarterly Brief, each of these help with comms and provides every member of our team with development opportunities. How we celebrate: We all gather at a monthly social with our famous Friday Quiz, we also offer nominations and awards for those who exhibit our values each quarter.

Our Offices: We consider ourselves lucky to be in beautiful offices in a leafy suburb of Sheffield. We have free on-site parking, bike store and good public transport links. We're out of the hustle and bustle of the city centre, but there's plenty of local shops & cafes close by. Discounts: We offer free places on our holiday programmes for your children (5 to 17 year olds), a cycle scheme, travel and social opportunities and a range of discounts and rewards, including charity worker benefits! Training: As well as a bespoke onboarding plan linked to your new role at Kings, you'll receive market leading Safeguarding training and a free disclosure check as part of our safer recruitment commitments.

About Us

Established in 1991, Kings Active Foundation is a UK registered charity with a vision of a world where children love being active, and a mission to get children active, having fun and learning together. We're experts in using active games, sport and fun to connect with children via our activity programmes and we equip, enable and inspire others to deliver activity programmes.

We are a small team doing big things. We have a passion for our work and a desire to get more children active and improving their physical and mental wellbeing.

Safeguarding Commitment

We're committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Safer recruitment is central to the way we work and all staff and volunteers are expected to share our commitment to safeguarding, always creating an environment where young people feel safe and can thrive.