Recruitment Manager
| Posting date: | 07 November 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £47,250 to £49,875 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 November 2024 |
| Location: | London, London, NW1 4RY |
| Company: | ZSL Whipsnade Zoo |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 54869545 |
Summary
Purpose of the role
Are you passionate about building diverse and inclusive talent pipelines that drive meaningful change? As the Recruitment Manager at ZSL, you’ll lead our recruitment team, playing a key role in shaping the future of our organisation by attracting exceptional talent. In this role, you’ll design and execute strategic hiring initiatives that meet ZSL’s long-term goals, champion our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and enhance our talent brand. If you’re ready to bring innovative talent strategies to life and make a real impact in conservation, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities:
- Use data-driven insights to evaluate and enhance recruitment practices, embedding EDI-focused interventions that ensure equitable hiring processes and inclusive outcomes across all candidate touchpoints.
- Provide day-to-day support to recruiting managers on timelines, role scoping, and recruitment administration when necessary to ensure alignment with strategic goals and a positive candidate experience.
- Manage the recruitment system, ensuring its effective use across all hiring processes and driving continuous improvements for a seamless candidate and hiring manager experience
About You
We’re looking for a strategic Recruitment expert with a proven track record in creating equitable hiring practices, supporting diverse talent pipelines, and empowering hiring managers with best practices to deliver a positive, inclusive candidate experience. You may have a blend of the following:
- Proven track record in embedding EDI-focused recruitment practices to drive equitable hiring outcomes and support diverse talent pools.
- Ability to advise and support hiring managers on best practices in recruitment, ensuring a positive and consistent candidate experience.
- Proficiency in analysing recruitment metrics and data to inform decisions, identify efficiencies, and track recruitment performance.
- Skills in training, coaching and developing hiring managers in recruitment best practices and compliance with UK Employment Law.
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to be in our office two days per week. First stage interviews will take place week commencing 25th November.
We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds and celebrate the value of having a team of employees with diverse skills, experiences, and heritage. We are committed to ensuring our teams can bring their authentic selves to work without fear of discrimination. ZSL has active equality networks for our staff with lived experience and those who provide active allyship in Race and Culture, Team Pride, Disability Network, and Menopause Network, complemented by our strategic EDI Steering Group.
This role is subject to standard pre-employment checks, including the candidate's right to work in the UK.
About ZSL
We’re ZSL, an international conservation charity. Through our unrivalled animal experts in our two zoos (London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo), the work of our pioneering scientists, our dedicated conservationists, our purpose is to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals going extinct. Our vision is a world where wildlife thrives and we’re working every day to achieve this. From investigating the health threats facing animals, to helping people and wildlife live alongside each other, we are committed to bringing wildlife back from the brink of extinction.
What do we offer?
At ZSL, we are proud of our approach to employee benefits. Our benefits include:
- Our vision and purpose - you’ll work alongside colleagues who are passionate about science-led conservation, knowing that you will help us to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wildlife going extinct
- Pension scheme - we offer a generous pension scheme with up to 12% contributory pension
- Flexible working – talk to us about your flexible working requirements and we will do everything we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you
- Holidays – 25 days annual leave allowance, plus UK bank holidays
- Wellbeing – access to a blended programme of wellbeing initiatives, including confidential access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Life assurance – eligible employees will be enrolled in ZSL’s life assurance scheme from their first day
- Complimentary tickets – annual allocation of Whipsnade Zoo and London Zoo tickets, with a 30% discount in online and retail shops
- Cycle2Work - our cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle
- Season ticket loan - we offer an interest free loan for eligibly London-based employees to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work
- Family friendly policies – we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption packages
NB: We reserve the right to close our advertisement early or extend the advertising date until a suitable candidate has been found.
Are you passionate about building diverse and inclusive talent pipelines that drive meaningful change? As the Recruitment Manager at ZSL, you’ll lead our recruitment team, playing a key role in shaping the future of our organisation by attracting exceptional talent. In this role, you’ll design and execute strategic hiring initiatives that meet ZSL’s long-term goals, champion our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and enhance our talent brand. If you’re ready to bring innovative talent strategies to life and make a real impact in conservation, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities:
- Use data-driven insights to evaluate and enhance recruitment practices, embedding EDI-focused interventions that ensure equitable hiring processes and inclusive outcomes across all candidate touchpoints.
- Provide day-to-day support to recruiting managers on timelines, role scoping, and recruitment administration when necessary to ensure alignment with strategic goals and a positive candidate experience.
- Manage the recruitment system, ensuring its effective use across all hiring processes and driving continuous improvements for a seamless candidate and hiring manager experience
About You
We’re looking for a strategic Recruitment expert with a proven track record in creating equitable hiring practices, supporting diverse talent pipelines, and empowering hiring managers with best practices to deliver a positive, inclusive candidate experience. You may have a blend of the following:
- Proven track record in embedding EDI-focused recruitment practices to drive equitable hiring outcomes and support diverse talent pools.
- Ability to advise and support hiring managers on best practices in recruitment, ensuring a positive and consistent candidate experience.
- Proficiency in analysing recruitment metrics and data to inform decisions, identify efficiencies, and track recruitment performance.
- Skills in training, coaching and developing hiring managers in recruitment best practices and compliance with UK Employment Law.
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to be in our office two days per week. First stage interviews will take place week commencing 25th November.
We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds and celebrate the value of having a team of employees with diverse skills, experiences, and heritage. We are committed to ensuring our teams can bring their authentic selves to work without fear of discrimination. ZSL has active equality networks for our staff with lived experience and those who provide active allyship in Race and Culture, Team Pride, Disability Network, and Menopause Network, complemented by our strategic EDI Steering Group.
This role is subject to standard pre-employment checks, including the candidate's right to work in the UK.
About ZSL
We’re ZSL, an international conservation charity. Through our unrivalled animal experts in our two zoos (London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo), the work of our pioneering scientists, our dedicated conservationists, our purpose is to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals going extinct. Our vision is a world where wildlife thrives and we’re working every day to achieve this. From investigating the health threats facing animals, to helping people and wildlife live alongside each other, we are committed to bringing wildlife back from the brink of extinction.
What do we offer?
At ZSL, we are proud of our approach to employee benefits. Our benefits include:
- Our vision and purpose - you’ll work alongside colleagues who are passionate about science-led conservation, knowing that you will help us to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wildlife going extinct
- Pension scheme - we offer a generous pension scheme with up to 12% contributory pension
- Flexible working – talk to us about your flexible working requirements and we will do everything we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you
- Holidays – 25 days annual leave allowance, plus UK bank holidays
- Wellbeing – access to a blended programme of wellbeing initiatives, including confidential access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Life assurance – eligible employees will be enrolled in ZSL’s life assurance scheme from their first day
- Complimentary tickets – annual allocation of Whipsnade Zoo and London Zoo tickets, with a 30% discount in online and retail shops
- Cycle2Work - our cycle to work scheme enables you to lease a bicycle
- Season ticket loan - we offer an interest free loan for eligibly London-based employees to buy a season ticket for travel between home and work
- Family friendly policies – we offer enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption packages
NB: We reserve the right to close our advertisement early or extend the advertising date until a suitable candidate has been found.