About The Role
Please note that this role requires the successful candidate to work 22.5 hours per week on a temporary basis to January 2026 with a salary of £20,714. East Kent Colleges Group has an exciting opportunity for a Recruitment Officer to join our team.
As a Recruitment Officer, you will join our busy team, providing an exceptional recruitment service to potential learners and stakeholders. You will be responsible for meeting recruitment targets for Apprenticeships and other work-based training. Maintaining and developing business relationships, you will support employers with advice and guidance on funding and training opportunities.
Travel will be required across our college sites and to external stakeholders.
Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:
Competitive salary and holiday entitlement Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays) Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes Generous pension scheme - 18% employer contribution Being part of a company with an Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews My 10 Days initiative - bid for up-to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work Being part of Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day About You
We are seeking to appoint an innovative and customer-focused individual with a proven track record of achieving sales targets and delivering results for their customers to our team. You for our Recruitment Officer role will ensure sales targets are achieved by providing an excellent professional service identifying and meeting the recruitment and training needs of each individual employer and ensuring repeat business.
You will have a working knowledge of the range and content of apprenticeship standards and experience of establishing, organising and maintaining recruitment campaigns for SMEs to Corporate Employers.
If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us on .
About Us
Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.
As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.
It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.
If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.
We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer . This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to health needs or disability.
Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.
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