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Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Recruitment Advisor to join our team and work for Barnardo's, the UK's largest Children's Charity. Handling the recruitment for around 3,000 vacancies a year. The role is part time working 30 hours per week and for a fixed term period, until August 2026. The successful post holder will need to live in Northern Ireland and be able to regularly work from our office based in Belfast. Some but not all the key responsibilities include: Ensuring that our applicants' experience of the recruitment process is a positive one. Managing the end-to-end recruitment process for a number of vacancies at any one time, including Children's Services, Retail and Corporate vacancies. Providing support and advice to hiring managers as needed at each stage of the recruitment process, including the effective use of our online recruitment system. Following our current recruitment process, promoting best practice and educating others throughout. Ensuring legal compliance in all recruitment and selection activity. Do you think this role is a great fit for you? We warmly encourage you to click the apply now button. Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible. Pay & Reward Framework: We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the People Teams to provide a high quality responsive and efficient recruitment service.
• Liaising with recruiting managers throughout campaigns to advise on and agree requirements, timescales, selection requirements i.e. testing etc
• Monitor and maintain effective and accurate management information systems and procedures, ensuring the required quality standards and performance indicators in relation to general administration are adhered to
• Take the lead on high profile and high volume campaigns and provide updates as required to recruiting managers and the people team.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of recruitment related employment legislation
• Understanding of Data Protection legislation, its implications and the need for compliance.
• Experience of undertaking Fair Employment and Article 55 reporting
• Experience of undertaking Access NI background checks
• Experience of supporting, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of recruitment practices in keeping with relevant legislation in NI.
• Experience of using an online recruitment management system
• Ability to deliver high volumes of varied recruitment related administrative work in a pressurised environment to a high standard.
• Highly organised with the ability to multi-task and prioritise a large workload, allowing you to effectively manage high volume and specialised recruitment.
• Ability to work well under pressure and in a busy and varied role with good problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Able to communicate clearly and professionally both internally as you liaise with recruiting managers and externally, liaising with candidates and external suppliers.
• Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new systems of work both manual and online.

Desirable Skills

• Formal recruitment related qualification.

Further Information

Fixed Term - August 26 Salary: £26,751 - £29,185 per annum (FTE)