Overview
Recruitment Advisor (King’s Search) – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us:
King’s Search is King’s College London’s in-house executive search team, supporting the appointment of senior academic and professional services leaders across the university. In addition, we support special recruitment initiatives and campaigns that span multiple career level hiring.
We combine executive search and recruitment expertise, in-depth knowledge of King’s and a relationship-led approach to identify and attract high-calibre talent from across the UK and internationally. Our work spans the full search or recruitment process, from market research and stakeholder engagement through to candidate management, selection and appointment.
We are a specialist, collaborative team, committed to delivering a high-quality, inclusive and professional service. We use robust research methodologies, industry-standard tools and a strong understanding of the university’s priorities, faculties and professional services to support effective recruitment.
Since our establishment in 2017, we have supported appointments across all nine academic faculties and a wide range of professional services, from research professors to members of the university’s senior leadership team.
About the role:
We are looking for a Recruitment Advisor to join our team on a fixed-term basis, supporting the team and King’s Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine with recruitment for an exciting newly established research team, with the aim of delivering innovative solutions for patients in critical care.
The postholder will provide a high-quality, end-to-end recruitment service for this piece of recruitment, working within a team to support the Hiring Manager to recruit high-quality individuals across Academic, Research and Professional Services roles.
The role holder will provide dedicated recruitment support and advice, working closely with the Hiring Manager and project team to understand their requirements and provide pragmatic, responsive and customer-focused support throughout the recruitment process. This will include supporting recruitment activity from candidate identification through to reviewing and filtering applications, fielding enquiries and expressions of interest, coordinating interviews and supporting appointment processes. The role holder will ensure that recruitment activity is delivered effectively and that candidates receive a positive and professional experience throughout.
The role will also involve undertaking appropriate market mapping and talent identification to support recruitment activity, maintaining accurate candidate information on our database (Invenias) and engaging with prospective candidates where appropriate. The Advisor will collate and record accurate recruitment related information, and produce regular updates on hiring updates. The role holder will develop a broad understanding of the University’s academic disciplines, Professional Services and NHS partners, enabling them to provide informed support to stakeholders, respond confidently to candidate interest and contribute to effective talent attraction.
As part of a small, collaborative in-house team, the role holder will contribute to the smooth delivery of assignments, including administration, coordination and logistics, and will work flexibly with colleagues across King’s Search. They will represent King’s College London professionally and consistently provide a high standard of service to the Hiring Manager, candidates and other stakeholders.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 10-12 months from joining (exact length subject to campaign requirements).
About you:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously. Delivery focused, with resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience producing high-quality written documentation such as candidate summaries, market insights, and graded longlisting reports based on thorough assessment.
- Experience working within either a high-volume external or internal recruitment team, or an executive search function with working knowledge on the full end to end recruitment lifecycle – planning, sourcing, screening, selecting, and securing.
- Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems, HR systems and databases.
- Worked closely and collaboratively in a matrix management team structure to deliver assignment outcomes. Providing supportive direction to colleagues.
- Able to work flexibly, a self-starter; possess sound judgement to solve day-to-day issues/challenges logically and practically before escalating issues.
- Excellent research and analytical skills with the ability to identify and engage talent, demonstrating excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working within a professional setting and office environment, within a team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collate information, produce high quality documentation to present to key stakeholders, whilst evidencing a commitment to professional discretion and sound judgement when handling confidential information.
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- A good understanding of the requirements of GDPR compliance
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
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