Community Recruitment

3 weeks ago

Scottish Borders, United Kingdom Balfour Wilson Recruitment Specialists Ltd Full time

Recruitment and Engagement Officer

Home Based | 35 Hours Per Week

Our client has just launched a new five-year strategy which will have growth at its heart. They are looking for an exceptional person to join their team as a recruitment and engagement officer in the Scottish Borders and be a vital part of this exciting phase of our development.

Reporting to the head of growth and sitting within the engagement team you will:
Recruit volunteers by promoting the services,

Develop effective relationships with new and existing referrers such as social prescribers and community link workers.

Identify and cultivate new, innovative referral pathways to connect with a broader demographic of seniors experiencing social isolation and loneliness

Support the wider team in the delivery of our grant funded projects

**Recruitment and engagement officer tasks and requirements**:

- Growing and developing our network of referral partners, including social prescribers and link workers, ensuring that our clients work is promoted to people aged 75+ who are experiencing social isolation and loneliness.
- Utilise the (OPUS) to inform evidence-based, data-driven decision[1]making to develop effective engagement plans.
- Working closely with the service delivery team ensuring that the right people are recruited and engaged into the right roles, in the right place, and at the right times.
- Collaborating with the communications team ensuring the widest possible publicity for the region’s needs through media and social media opportunities, local press, radio, TV, and online forums.
- Liaising closely with the fundraising team delivering against recruitment targets linked to grants.
- Identifying speaking and presenting opportunities ensuring that our clients work is promoted to referrers.
- Working effectively as part of a regional team, maintaining, and growing all services.
- Joint accountability, with colleagues in the region, for the engagement of older people and recruitment of volunteers into the portfolio of services
- Carrying out any other reasonable tasks assigned to you by your line manager.

ABOUT YOU:
You’ll be a proactive, solution-focused person with passion and skill for networking and building relationships. You’ll be experienced at building and maintaining effective relationships with referrers and social prescribers and will be a flexible, hands-on team player, who will deliver strategic objectives, values, behaviours, and working practices.

ESSENTIAL:

- Excellent people skills with a proven ability to network and collaborate with professionals, partners, older people, volunteers, and colleagues.
- Digital first approach with strong ability in all areas of working digitally.
- Experience of working across different sectors and developing links with other organisations.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Organised and methodical approach to work with strong administrative skills
- Enthusiastic about using technology to its full advantage to engage and recruit older people and volunteers and make data informed decisions.
- Self-motivated, able to work remotely with mínimal supervision.
- Experience of working to deadlines and meeting KPIs and targets
- A positive ambassador committed to an organisation that challenges ageism, empowers volunteers and recognises and values diversity.
- Able to work your own initiative as well as collaboratively as part of a team
- A clear understanding of safeguarding systems and processes and of confidentiality and the implications of GDPR when working with volunteers and older people.

DESIRABLE:

- Experience of community engagement or sales, including online engagement.
- Experience working in a target-driven work environment
- Skilled at building and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders from the statutory, commercial, and voluntary sectors to deliver results.
- Interested in learning about loneliness, social isolation, and factors that impact the ageing population.
- Understanding of volunteer journey, including recruitment and engagement.
- Full driving license and own car preferred as this post will require regional travel as and when required and the occasional overnight stay.
- Understanding of, and empathy with, the issues affecting older people who are isolated, and
- lonely.

This role requires an enhanced Protecting Vulnerable Adults check

BENEFITS:

- Salary £27,000
- 26 days annual leave and all Bank Holidays
- Working from home allowance at the standard HMRC rate
- Enhanced family friendly and life events provisions
- Bupa cash plan, 3% pension contribution, death in service benefit
- Learning and development opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £27,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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