Talent Attraction & Recruitment Officer

WMJobs; Dudley; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking a customer-focused Recruitment & Talent Engagement Officer to join the Workforce and Learning Team. You will coordinate recruitment activity, manage campaigns and advertise vacancies across platforms, delivering a professional service to applicants and managers.

You will support hiring managers to attract top candidates for children and young people services, organise interviews and events, and contribute to employer branding and workforce planning

Qualifications

• Experience of coordinating recruitment, resourcing or HR processes.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with recruitment systems and Microsoft Office.
• Passion for candidate attraction, recruitment marketing and employer branding.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively with managers and external partners.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in public service.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate recruitment campaigns across a wide range of Children and Young People roles.
• Manage vacancy advertisements across multiple recruitment platforms and social media channels.
• Provide a professional and responsive service to applicants, managers and stakeholders.
• Support hiring managers to attract the best candidates into critical and hard-to-fill roles.
• Organise interviews, assessment centres and recruitment events.
• Produce recruitment correspondence and maintain accurate recruitment records.
• Support the development of employer branding, attraction campaigns and recruitment marketing initiatives.
• Analyse recruitment performance data and contribute to workforce planning activity.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and support to Recruitment Officers where required.

Skills

Recruitment coordination

Organisational skills

Communication & interpersonal

Recruitment systems

Recruitment marketing

Analytical skills

Collaboration with managers

Equality, diversity & inclusion

Tools

MS Office

Applicant tracking system

Job description

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking a customer-focused Recruitment & Talent Engagement Officer to join the Workforce and Learning Team. You will coordinate recruitment activity, manage campaigns and advertise vacancies across platforms, delivering a professional service to applicants and managers.

You will support hiring managers to attract top candidates for children and young people services, organise interviews and events, and contribute to employer branding and workforce planning