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.

Responsibility and Duties:

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

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

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

You would offer:

Ideally, your prior experience as a recruitment consultant within education
A good understanding of primary education, preferably with experience of teaching in primary schools
Excellent standard of written and spoken English
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
Time management skills and ability to prioritise workload
The ability to work well within a team as well as autonomously whilst demonstrating initiative
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:

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