Education Recruitment Consultant

Education Recruitment Consultant

Would you like to use your understanding of primary education and teaching to build a career in recruitment? Or do you have experience working in education recruitment as a consultant already and are looking for a more senior role?

Based in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, we are a specialist primary employment business now in our 12th year. We are a small, but reputable business contracted to Hertfordshire and support just primary schools and primary staff, including teachers and support staff.

Moore Teachers is looking for an ambitious and driven education recruitment consultant to join our team. The right candidate would ideally have some experience in recruitment already, but must have a working understanding of the British school system. You may, for example, be a teacher looking for a career away from the primary classroom. Or you may have already made that leap and are searching for the next step in your recruitment consultancy journey, with the view of taking on a more senior role. In either case, you would be passionate about teaching and education, and dedicated to working with primary staff and primary schools.

We are committed to our client schools and our agency staff - social value, health and well-being are an important part of our ethos.

Responsibilities and Duties:

1. To start asap. This is a full-time role, 40 hours a week on a flexible working pattern.
2. Liaise with schools and headteachers to arrange bookings and interviews, and to provide a personalised approach to each client.
3. Filling client booking requests in line with our contractual obligation.
4. Attract new client schools.
5. Source and contact primary school staff through various marketing methods.
6. Screen CVs & identify relevant skills to match vacancies.
7. Arrange & conduct registration interviews.
8. Format & prepare CVs for clients.
9. Help maintain our CV tracker database.

This role is varied and fast-paced and the ideal person would be:

1. Confident to speak face-to-face and on the phone to a range of potential candidates.
2. Have the ability to multitask.
3. Have excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
4. Self-motivated, tenacious and resilient.
5. Have good questioning and listening skills, and be an excellent conversationalist with the ability to communicate with a diverse range of people.
6. Share in our ethos and commitment to excellent customer service and social value.
7. Experienced in leading and managing people.

You would offer:

1. Ideally, your prior experience as a recruitment consultant within education.
2. A good understanding of primary education, preferably with experience of teaching in primary schools.
3. Excellent standard of written and spoken English.
4. Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
5. Time management skills and ability to prioritise workload.
6. The ability to work well within a team as well as autonomously whilst demonstrating initiative.
7. Excellent IT skills, including the use of Microsoft Office and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

Our Education Recruitment Consultant position is a full-time role, 40 hours a week on a flexible working pattern.

We can offer you:

1. A negotiable salary depending on experience + commission.
2. Bespoke training depending on experience.
3. The opportunity to expand this role, with plenty of room for progression and development.
4. Support from a very experienced team of staff.
5. Free access to the Herts Healthy Workplace platform, offering a huge range of health and wellbeing resources and dedicated Wellbeing Champions in the office.
6. Wellbeing and team-building days out.

If you feel you have the right skills and can offer commitment and passion to this role, please call us now for more information, or forward your CV to us and one of our team will call you.