This role is covering Maternity for a 12 month period.
At One YMCA, we know that great services start with great people.
As we continue to grow across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, attracting, recruiting and retaining talented colleagues is critical to achieving our ambitions. Recruitment is more than filling vacancies. It is about finding people who share our values, strengthening our teams and ensuring we can continue delivering life changing services to the communities we support.
We're looking for a passionate and proactive Resourcing Advisor to join our People Team and lead recruitment and onboarding activity across the charity. Supporting more than 750 colleagues across a wide range of services, you'll play a key role in helping managers attract exceptional talent, deliver a positive candidate experience and build a sustainable workforce for the future.
About the role
This is a varied and rewarding role that combines recruitment expertise, workforce planning, manager support and continuous improvement.
You will:
- Lead end to end recruitment campaigns across a diverse range of roles and services.
- Act as a trusted advisor to managers, providing guidance on recruitment, attraction and workforce planning.
- Develop engaging recruitment campaigns using social media, advertising platforms, talent pools and professional networks.
- Manage relationships with recruitment agencies and external partners, ensuring quality, value for money and access to suitable talent.
- Monitor agency usage and identify opportunities to reduce recruitment costs through direct sourcing and alternative attraction methods.
- Lead onboarding and probation processes to help new colleagues settle successfully into the organisation.
- Promote inclusive recruitment practices that support Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.
- Use recruitment and retention data to identify trends and improve recruitment outcomes.
- Support job evaluation, role design and workforce information processes.
About you
We're looking for someone who is passionate about recruitment and enjoys building relationships, solving problems and delivering excellent service.
You'll bring:
- Experience leading recruitment campaigns from attraction through to appointment.
- Experience working with recruitment agencies and external recruitment partners, ensuring effective and cost conscious recruitment solutions.
- Strong knowledge of recruitment best practice and candidate attraction methods.
- Experience partnering with managers to develop effective recruitment solutions.
- Excellent communication, relationship building and influencing skills.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- A commitment to inclusive recruitment and positive candidate experiences.
- The ability to use data and insight to drive improvement and inform decision making.
Why join One YMCA?
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a visible impact within a growing charity that is committed to investing in its people and culture. You'll work with managers across the organisation, help shape how we attract and welcome new colleagues, and play an important role in supporting our ambition to grow and strengthen our workforce.
You'll join a supportive and ambitious People Team where your ideas and expertise will help influence the future of recruitment, onboarding and colleague experience across One YMCA.
If you're looking for a role where you can build relationships, attract great talent and make a genuine difference to colleagues and communities, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note that we will be reviewing applications and conducting interviews on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply as early as possible, as we may close the vacancy once a suitable candidate has been appointed.
Due to the nature of the services provided, a Basic DBS will be required, as will a full driving licence.
Important Information: Applicants must have the right to work in the UK, as visa sponsorship is not available for this role. This position may require a Basic or Enhanced DBS check. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
At One YMCA, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
One YMCA and its subsidiaries, the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade, via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive, three-day Kickstarter Event.
By the end of these three days, there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas, which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do “more and better, together” so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts, Beds and Bucks that reach over 135,000 individuals annually.
These include:
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Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
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Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
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Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
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Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
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Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
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Family support through a network of children’s and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
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Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
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Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire, Luton and Hertfordshire
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Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
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Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
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A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity, and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.
