Following another successful year at Equal Education Partners, in 2024 we're growing our Education Recruitment teams and are keen to bring on board highly professional and experienced colleagues.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Recruitment Manager to join our successful education recruitment team working with schools across South & West Wales as part of our Swansea team.
We are also recruiting for the following roles: Senior/Established Recruitment Consultants x3 (Swansea); Area Manager (Cardiff); and Senior/Established Recruitment Consultants x3 (Cardiff).
About Equal
Equal Education Partners is a specialist education recruitment consultancy working with schools & FE colleges across Wales to meet their daily supply, long-term and permanent recruitment needs. We also work closely with the Welsh Government and universities to widen access to higher education and improve STEM education across Wales.
We are accredited to the gold standard by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and recommended to all schools & colleges across Wales by the Welsh Government and the National Procurement Service (NPS).
We pride ourselves on being an ethical employer, on supporting our teaching team members and on investing in their Professional Learning.
About Equal's education recruitment team
Our Senior Recruitment Manager will supporting the Associate Director for Education Recruitment in overseeing a small team of Established/Senior Recruitment Consultants to drive growth across Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire & Ceredigion, and work with a Junior Recruitment Consultant and our Candidate Recruitment Manager.
Finance & HR team support
The Education Recruitment team is supported by our established back office Finance & HR team, taking care of payroll, timesheets, invoicing and all administrative matters. Our Finance & HR (back-office) team includes our Finance Manager, Business & People Manager, Assistant Finance Manager, and Payroll Manager.
Job Description - Senior Recruitment Manager (Swansea)
- Recruiting excellent teaching and learning support professionals for schools, using a combination of both traditional and digital methods
- Taking responsibility for a designated growth area either geographically (one or more local authorities) or focusing on Primary, Secondary or ALN schools
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing client schools
- Developing new business relationships with additional schools
- Building and maintain relationships with education professionals, supporting them into excellent, career-impacting roles, ensuring their satisfaction and performance
- Working with candidate resourcing specialists and compliance & vetting colleagues to build, progress and maintain a high quality pipeline of candidates
- Headhunting candidates for long term roles
Requirements
Qualities:
- Essential characteristics: a highly motivated, organised and transparent, who has a strong work ethic and operates with integrity and professionalism at all times
- Ability to build and maintain extremely strong relationships with existing and new partner schools and education professionals
- Ability to grow client relationships to become their preferred partner
- Highly motivated and driven to succeed
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to contribute to and work as part of a team
- Resourceful in your approach to finding and matching the best candidates to the roles
- An excellent ambassador and advocate for Equal Education Partners who can get behind and move forward our ambition to raise standards in education through talent attraction, retention and development
Prior experience required:
- Experience of managing and servicing a diverse range of clients simultaneously
- Business development, sales and customer service experience
- Experience using Customer Relationship Management and Compliance Management systems
- Experience working in education recruitment, education and/or recruitment
- Experience of working within teams
Benefits
- £38,000-£45,000 per annum plus commission (OTE £46-50k+)
- 33 days of holiday per annum (including bank holidays)
- Work with an excellent team of highly motivated, professional and experienced colleagues who know how to get the job done and have fun at the same time
- Progression & rewards based on performance
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
- Private health insurance (from day one)
- Significant financial Long Term Service Bonus
- Free car parking at our offices
- Professional learning & self development budgets
- Employer's pension scheme
- Paid team social activities
