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Head of Recruitment

Employer
Prospectus
Location
North London
Salary
Up to £40000.00 per annum
Closing date
29 Oct 2019

Job Details

We are delighted to be partnering with Working Chance to recruit their new Head of Recruitment, overseeing a service providing tailored, impactful recruitment support for women leaving the criminal justice and care systems. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your strong managerial skills and established recruitment experience to a wholly worthwhile cause.

Working Chance are an award-winning charity, supporting women with convictions and care leavers into sustainable employment. Working with employers across all sectors (including household name brands), the charity provide a bespoke service helping women to turn their lives around, through employability and recruitment support. Working Chance also work to change the attitudes of employers, tackling prejudices about hiring staff with convictions.

Working closely with the Chief Executive as well as the wider senior management team, your role will entail overseeing a small, dedicated recruitment team, ensuring a quality recruitment service is delivered to all 'work ready' candidates. You will mentor and guide your team to ensure that all candidates are supported into the right roles, and will continually lead by example by personally holding your own caseload of candidates and employers. You will supervise and work alongside the Employer Engagement Manager to ensure that Working Chance has a broad pool of employers willing to hire women with convictions and will contribute to the charity's strategic development by maintaining strong relationships with employers and promoting services, in order to help grow its impact. Your work will also include managing events whereby the charity brings employers into prisons to meet potential candidates nearing their release date.

To apply for this role, you must have extensive recruitment experience, including experience of developing new strategies and relationships to acquire new business. You must be a strong, inspiring leader with significant experience of nurturing, supporting and building teams to achieve best performance. You will be a skilled networker, comfortable working in partnership with a range of organisations to achieve shared goals. Overall, you will be a positive, proactive professional, passionate about delivering impactful recruitment solutions to improve people's lives.

Please apply with a Word Document copy of your CV. Cover letters are not required at this stage. Full job descriptions will be provided to candidates shortlisted by Prospectus.

Interviews will be taking place W/C 4th November.

Company

We believe our clients change the world for individuals, communities and society. For over 60 years Prospectus has been working across the UK and internationally to connect talented people with beyond profit organisations.

 

Company info
Telephone
(020) 7691 1925
Location
20/22 Stukeley Street
London
London
WC2B5LR
GB

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