Reports to: Director of Recruitment and Marketing
Location: Flexible, ideally West Midlands home based, with monthly co-working days in London and additional stakeholder meetings as required.
Salary: £36,000 FTE
Working Arrangements:Part-time; 0.6 FTE 22.5 hours a week with flexibility on how hours are worked across the week
Contract: Fixed Term (March 2025 – August 2027)
About Now Teach
Now Teach, in partnership with the National Institute of Teaching and Mindful Equity UK, has successfully secured a Mission 44 grant to launch a pilot project to attract and support ethnically diverse career changers in the West Midlands to become secondary school teachers. The partnership will support applicants through the recruitment process and into their teacher training.
We are looking for an exceptional recruitment specialist with a passion for education, great insight into the region and local communities and the ability to work autonomously to achieve our recruitment and retention ambitions.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Role overview
The Recruitment Specialist will support the design and be responsible for the implementation of a recruitment campaign to meet our targets. They will research the lived experience of ethnically diverse teachers in the region, build a strong knowledge base of the local labour market and deliver outreach and local community engagement, candidate support and pipeline management.
The Recruitment Specialist will provide guidance to candidates throughout the application process, including onboarding activities and providing ongoing mentorship to candidates throughout their teacher training. This will specifically focus on eliminating barriers, capitalizing on opportunities, and navigating challenges unique to our target audience.
In this role you will...
- Lead the day-to-day activities of the pilot campaign, taking responsibility for delivering and achieving the successful recruitment and retention of a cohort of between 15-20 career changers.
- Collaborate with the National Institute of Teaching Recruitment Teams to ensure a seamless candidate journey, working with Mindful Equity UK to ensure best practice in supporting candidates.
- Project manage and coordinate input from project partners and suppliers, providing regular updates and inputting into progress reports and evaluation documents.
- Provide full end to end career change support across the whole candidate life cycle; from prospective Now Teacher, through our selection process, to delivering expert advice and guidance in successfully transitioning and onboarding candidates as Now Teachers within the National Institute of Teaching ITT cohort.
- Take ownership of and successfully manage candidate pipelines for the region ensuring recruitment targets are achieved.
- Talent spot and advise candidates so that they feel supported, trust your advice, and see you as an essential part of their career change journey into teaching.
- Work closely within the recruitment team to support one another and to successfully hit our growing national targets.
- Be excellent at pipeline management and timely CRM database (Salesforce) updates to ensure robust reports and data.
- Develop and deliver candidate engagement initiatives (both prospective candidates and those in teacher training) appropriate to the region and target audience, cultivating and leveraging community outreach activities.
- Collaborate with other teams across Now Teach ensuring we collaborate strongly, are aligned, and support one another to achieve our shared goals.
- Leverage our growing network of career changers in school to enhance candidate experience at each stage through qualified teachers, working with the programme and network team to do this highly effectively.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Who you are (qualities/values)
- Enthusiastic about our purpose and committed to the shared aims of the Mission 44 partnership.
- Ability to take ownership of a project, while working autonomously.
- Track record of delivering an exceptional candidate experience whilst working at pace.
- Strong communicator, able to provide down-to-earth, insightful, and appropriate communications with an ability to mentor, influence and build trusted relationships.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively.
- Committed to continuous improvement.
- Sound judgement under pressure.
- Relentless collaborator with a can-do attitude.
- Creative and solutions focused.
What you'll need to succeed in this role (experience/qualifications etc)
- Strong working knowledge of the initial teacher training, early career, and education landscape and or the career change market
- Understanding of the local labour market and specific challenges faced by ethnically diverse candidates to enter teacher training.
- A coaching/mentoring background or experience of caseload/pipeline management/support for candidates.
- Comfortable with a wide range of digital platforms, for example, Salesforce CRM and Microsoft Office.
Don’t meet every requirement?
Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification.
At Now Teach we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
WORKING AT NOW TEACH
Our people join and stay because they value Now Teach’s flexibility, close-knit team culture and social purpose. 33% of employees at all levels of the organisation work part time and everyone works flexibly, with time off in lieu part of our standard working practices.
We are a small, collaborative and supportive team of nearly 25 people. We are non-hierarchical, with 100% of our people believing their line managers listen and value their opinions and people of all levels getting stuck in. We set clear expectations and celebrate the successes of teams and individuals. 100% of our team are proud to work at Now Teach, 100% find Now Teach considerate of their wellbeing and 100% would actively recommend us as an employer.
Our culture is central to us encouraging and supporting people into teaching. Without our positive, honest, and flexible approach we wouldn’t be able to adapt to meet the needs of Now Teachers. We have been named as one of Escape the City’s Top 100 Employers in 2021 and 2022 and have been recognised as a Working Mums’ Top Employer and at the Working Dads Employer Awards. We have won awards for our Culture, Flexible Working and Excellence in Public Service.
In return
As well as flexible working and a great culture, we offer a wide range of benefits including 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), an additional 3 days for Winter closure (25th Dec-1st January), a pension scheme with a generous 11% employer contribution, a rewards platform with employee discounts and access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
Working arrangements
Part time role, flexible working patterns possible. Now Teach are supported to work flexibly at co-working spaces or at home as needed with monthly working days in London. You will be required to cover your own travel expenses to London.
Application Process
Applications close at 9am on Mon 3rd February 2025
To apply, please complete our online application form where you will be asked to upload a Cover Letter (no more than 1 side of A4) and CV (no more than 2 sides of A4)
Your Cover Letter should include why you are attracted to the role, why you are motivated to work at Now Teach and what you can bring to the team.
If you have any difficulty with accessing the application form, need any additional support or require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please email recruitment@nowteach.org.uk
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Now Teach strives to be a workplace that is diverse, equitable and inclusive where we can ALL be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, gender identities, stages of life and those with hidden or visible disabilities.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we’ll endeavor to be as accommodating as possible. If you would like to discuss specific requirements, please contact recruitment@nowteach.org.uk or call 020 7430 8878 and ask to speak to the Operations Team.
All applicants must have an existing Right to Work in the UK.
Safe Recruitment Procedure
Now Teach are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. To meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process, and all successful candidates will be subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
