Recruitment Advisor

About the role 1

We’re looking for an experienced and passionate recruitment/HR professional to lead a wide variety of recruitment campaigns for the Royal Household and Royal Collection Trust.

We’re a wonderfully diverse organisation employing everything from Gardeners and Retail Assistants to Building Surveyors, IT Systems Analysts and Senior Executives. The sheer breadth of roles will present you with some truly fascinating, and often unique, challenges.

Working as part of our small in-house recruitment team, you’ll partner with hiring managers to ensure a highly efficient and tailored recruitment service from start to finish.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for your own portfolio of campaigns, including volume, specialist and operational, you’ll provide expert advice and practical support to hiring managers.

• Managing all activity through the hiring cycle, from campaign planning and advertising to selection and offer, you’ll ensure a first-rate recruitment service with a focus on stakeholder management and candidate experience.

• Working with a variety of job boards, social and online media channels, you’ll help ensure attraction strategies are pro-active, engaging and provide value for money.

• You’ll also develop new and existing partnerships with agencies and other third parties.

• With an understanding of best practice selection, you’ll help design and provide hands-on support with a range of selection methods, including in-person and video interviews, assessment centres, skills testing and online assessment.

• Using our systems daily, you’ll bring market insights and data analytics to inform campaign planning and ensure strategic objectives are met.

• As a key point of contact for hiring managers and candidates, you’ll ensure an exceptional experience for all parties.

And as you support others, you'll have exceptional opportunities to grow your own career. We don't stand still here; and your expertise will make an impact at the heart of this world-famous institution.

About you 1

Essential Criteria

• With previous in-house recruitment experience, either having worked in a specialist recruitment team or as an HR generalist with lots of recruitment experience, you’re comfortable handling a wide variety of campaigns as well as using ATS systems.

• With an understanding of the recruitment market, you’ll be experienced at designing attraction strategies for a range of roles including advertising, direct sourcing and working with third parties.

• Experience of designing in-person/virtual interviews, assessment centres and practical assignment/skills tests is essential.

• At your best working as part of a team, with great communication skills and used to partnering at all levels, you'll hit the ground running.

• With strong organisation and time management skills and the ability to work at pace, you’ll juggle competing priorities, easily switching between operational and project work to deliver results.

• Digitally fluent with great analytical skills and experience of using ATS systems, you can analyse data and draw insights to inform decision making.

• Pro-active, with lots of initiative and resourcefulness, you’ll enjoy bringing new ideas to improve the delivery of our recruitment services.

• With a passion for delivering an exceptional service to candidates and stakeholders, coupled with knowledge of best practice and legislation, you’ll ensure compliance whilst exceeding expectations.

Benefits 1

We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best. That’s why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities.

Enjoy 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days (plus bank holidays) dependent on the length of time you have worked for us.

Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we’ll contribute 15% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.

Flexible and hybrid working varies across different roles, and we’ll discuss the options available to you that will suit both your job requirements and individual preferences.

We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.

Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.

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