Strategic Recruitment Officer — Hybrid

Hertfordshire County Council; Stevenage; Hybride; GBP 36 000 - 39 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Hertfordshire County Council in Stevenage is seeking a Recruitment Officer to deliver resourcing solutions and attraction strategies across multiple service areas. The role combines stakeholder engagement, end-to-end recruitment, and activity management within an HR team.

You will lead on recruitment processes, advise on attraction strategies, and ensure alignment with KPIs while maintaining a strong focus on Diversity & Inclusion across services.

Qualifications

• Experience in a working recruitment environment.
• Exceptional IT skills, with experience using applicant tracking systems and Microsoft suite as a minimum.
• Significant, demonstrable, customer service skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills including meeting deadlines and KPIs.
• Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrable accuracy in written documentation and reporting.
• Significant experience in stakeholder management with an ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and levels.
• Experience in working as part of a team, collaborating regularly to achieve shared goals.

Responsabilités

• Provide effective and proactive stakeholder support within service remit to ensure successful collaboration, continuous improvements and positive recruitment outcomes.
• Proactively advise, support and implement attraction strategies and resourcing solutions including advert writing and review, effective prescreening, analysis of strategies, and feeding back to stakeholders.
• Act as Operational Lead for all vacancies within service remit, taking accountability for the end to end process in line with KPIs.
• Proactively and effectively manage workload through the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) ensuring timely progression of system activity.
• Have significant strategic input into filling vacancies within service remit, tailoring recruitment strategies to meet service needs.
• Act as a subject matter expert on processes, legislation, systems, and policies related to recruitment.
• Actively promote and embed Diversity & Inclusion practices in line with HCC's People Strategy.
• Work collaboratively, and in partnership with, the Recruitment Team, and wider HR department, to achieve recruitment goals and meet service needs.
• Representing the Recruitment Team at career events and job fairs, actively promoting HCC as an employer of choice, and highlighting key vacancies in line with event criteria.
• Meet regularly with service leads and attend meetings virtually or in person, to provide updates on recruitment activity, suggest improvements, challenge appropriately, and understand the service's needs.
• Produce reports and analysis demonstrating current vacancy volumes, effectiveness of strategies and resourcing solutions, highlighting areas for improvement and further recommendations, delivering these to service leads and direct line managers as requested.
• Supervisory responsibility for Recruitment Assistants where they are aligned to service remit

Connaissances

Recruitment experience

Applicant Tracking Systems

Customer service

Time management

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Teamwork

Outils

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

Hertfordshire County Council in Stevenage is seeking a Recruitment Officer to deliver resourcing solutions and attraction strategies across multiple service areas. The role combines stakeholder engagement, end-to-end recruitment, and activity management within an HR team.

You will lead on recruitment processes, advise on attraction strategies, and ensure alignment with KPIs while maintaining a strong focus on Diversity & Inclusion across services.