Duration: November 2025 - Fixed term EML cover 

Salary: £38,000 per annum 

Hours: 35 hours per week.  Other flexible arrangements will be considered 

Disclosure Level: Basic. This role involves no direct or indirect work with children 

Reports to: Head of Talent  

Location: Hybrid - Partly working from home and at least one day/week at 1 Westfield Avenue, London E20 1HZ 

At the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK), we pull together to achieve the best possible results for children around the world.  We believe in an inclusive workplace and in the power of fulfilled colleagues who share the same values and goals, enjoy their work and are motivated to do their utmost for children.   

Our work is guided by the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which recognise the universality of children’s rights. 

ABOUT THE TEAM  

The People team delivers impactful advice, operations and policy development that meet the needs of the organisation, in the most efficient and cost-effective way.  We act as a strategic partner, to attract, retain and develop the right diverse capabilities, to maximise funding, and enable a values-led, high-performance culture.  

ABOUT THE ROLE 

The Recruiter will work alongside the Resourcing Manager to implement a more proactive approach to talent acquisition at UNICEF UK and to strengthen inclusive recruitment practice across the organisation.  

What we will expect you to achieve 

• Collaborate with the Resourcing Manager and Diversity and Inclusion to Lead, to enable the organisation to enhance inclusion best practice in our recruitment  

• Become confident on the end-to-end inclusive recruitment process, policies and Applicant tracking System (UNICEF UK’s ATS is Applied), using that knowledge to advise, guide and equip recruiting managers to employ inclusion best practice in their recruitment campaigns. 

• Partner with recruiting managers to develop a successful campaign first time:  

• Meet with recruiting managers, to understand the role, agree timescales and the approach. 

• Actively listen and offer additional recruitment advice or coaching to recruiting managers as needed.  

• Talent map and attract passive applicants to apply for UNICEF UK vacancies, using all available candidate databases 

• Use LinkedIn Recruiter and Reed to develop talent pools by researching, identifying and engaging with a diverse range of candidates, demonstrating UNICEF UK’s values at all candidate touch points. 

• Liaise with People Assistants to review the job advertising and marketing materials in line with the UNICEF brand and tone of voice.  

• Support the design and delivery of recruitment data and analytics, to inform and track progress and improve practice. 

• Assist the Resourcing Manager in ensuring recruiting managers and their panels have the knowledge and skills to carry out inclusive, customer-focused recruitment by providing regular training, coaching and advice, and sharing best practices 

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment practices, policy, processes and systems, with a focus on exceptional user experience (recruiting manager, candidates, recruitment agencies and all colleagues). 

• Champion the promotion of UNICEF UK as an inclusive, values-led “employer of choice”,  through a variety of communication channels and outreach activities 

• Contribute to other projects to support the successful delivery our talent approach and equity diversity and inclusion strategy  

• Demonstrate and model a commitment to our shared values, behaviours and inclusive practices (known as Our Shared Commitment) in all aspects of your work. 

BEHAVIOURS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS 

This section contains the essential behaviours, experience, knowledge and skills needed in order to be effective and successful in this role. All criteria in this section are essential. 

Supporter driven and mission aligned  

• Is committed to children and their rights and motivated to work towards achieving a better world for every child.    

• Passionate about delivering exceptional customer, candidate, supporter experience at all times 

Positive relationships and communication  

• Nurtures trusted relationships with colleagues at all levels, external contacts, and partners to support the achievement of objectives.    

• Anticipates and responds to the needs of internal and external stakeholders, adapting content, style, language and use of channel to deliver maximum clarity  

Effectiveness and efficiency  

• Manages conflicting priorities and competing demands to ensure that objectives are achieved and deadlines met.    

• Comfortable negotiating efficient time and expectations in order to ensure delivery is pragmatic and realistic. 

Resilience and results focused  

• Patience and commitment to supporting the successful delivery of change processes 

• Remains positive and quickly recovers from setbacks, keeping problems in perspective.  

• Takes a solution focused approach to problem solving to succeed in difficult circumstances.    

• Reviews results and extracts learning to optimise future performance   

Information and data  

• Protects our reputation when working with confidential data and information and mitigates risk through conforming to all the legal, regulatory, ethical and privacy issues  

 Specific knowledge and skills   

• Able to look at a question, challenge or query and use all the information, at their disposal to make decisions and offer advice or escalate as necessary.  

• Strong organisation and planning skills  

• Good knowledge of employment law and best practice inclusive recruitment. 

• Comfortable learning new technology, processes, policies and ways of working with continuous curiosity. 

Relevant experience 

• Experience in end-to-end recruitment (agency or inhouse), with an understanding of how talent acquisition works with the broader people practice.  

• Past experience with searching and engaging passive applicants and converting them to applicants to the organisations vacancies. 

• Able to use social media platforms, job boards and review sites such as Glassdoor, Google for jobs, LinkedIn, to communicate and boost UNICEF UK employer brand and voice