HR Recruitment Officer

Job Introduction

Job Title: Recruitment Officer
Starting Salary: £35,570 progressing to £38,510 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 37 per week (part time considered, minimum 4 days per week)
Location: Based in Stevenage with hybrid working opportunities. Mandatory in-office day each Tuesday. You may on occasion be expected to attend meetings at other sites.
Contract Type: Permanent and Fixed Term (until 31st March 2028) available
Directorate: Resources

About the team

Hertfordshire County Council's (HCC) Recruitment Team is looking for an experienced and well organised recruiter to deliver resourcing solutions and attraction strategies to appoint high calibre candidates.

As part of the HR Department, the Recruitment Team handle a wide range of recruitment activity across the whole of Hertfordshire County Council's departments, ensuring great customer service, timely delivery, and providing expert advice to a range of stakeholders.

About the role

The Recruitment Officer will be responsible for a defined service remit, encompassing recruitment activity across a number of service areas across HCC. The alignment of the service remit may be subject to review depending on service needs and recruitment volume at the time.

Stakeholders can include hiring managers, candidates, project/service leads, and colleagues across the HR department

Reporting directly to the Senior Recruitment Officer, you will be expected to:

• Provide effective and proactive stakeholder support within service remit to ensure successful collaboration, continuous improvements and positive recruitment outcomes
• Proactively advise, support and implement attraction strategies and resourcing solutions including advert writing and review, effective prescreening, analysis of strategies, and feeding back to stakeholders
• Act as Operational Lead for all vacancies within service remit, taking accountability for the end to end process in line with KPIs
• Proactively and effectively manage workload through the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) ensuring timely progression of system activity
• Have significant strategic input into filling vacancies within service remit, utilising knowledge of service priorities, functions and barriers, tailoring recruitment strategies to meet service needs
• Act as a subject matter expert on processes, legislation, systems, and policies related to recruitment
• Actively promote and embed Diversity & Inclusion practices in line with HCC's People Strategy
• Work collaboratively, and in partnership with, the Recruitment Team, and wider HR department, to achieve recruitment goals and meet service needs
• Representing the Recruitment Team at career events and job fairs, actively promoting HCC as an employer of choice, and highlighting key vacancies in line with event criteria
• Meet regularly with service leads and attend meetings virtually or in person, to provide updates on recruitment activity, suggest improvements, challenge appropriately, and understand the service's needs
• Produce reports and analysis demonstrating current vacancy volumes, effectiveness of strategies and resourcing solutions, highlighting areas for improvement and further recommendations, delivering these to service leads and direct line managers as requested
• Supervisory responsibility for Recruitment Assistants where they are aligned to service remit

About you

We are looking for a proactive and motivated individual who can demonstrate a strong ability to prioritise their own workload to meet varying demands across their aligned service remit.

Essential

• Experience in a working recruitment environment
• Exceptional IT skills, with experience using applicant tracking systems and Microsoft suite as a minimum
• Significant, demonstrable, customer service skills
• Strong organisational and time management skills including meeting deadlines and KPIs
• Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrable accuracy in written documentation and reporting
• Significant experience in stakeholder management with an ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and levels
• Experience in working as part of a team, collaborating regularly to achieve shared goals

Desirable

• Experience or knowledge of HR best practice
• Experience in a local authority

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is Level 9. Please locate the job profile here:

Job profiles - Corporate services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact loulou.king@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 23rd and 24th November 2026

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Secondment
This role is open to secondments for eligible employees who work for HCC. If you wish to apply on a secondment basis, you must have your line manager's approval before submitting your application. You will be asked to confirm this within your application form. If you are not eligible for a secondment (e.g., you are currently on a fixed‑term contract that would end before this positions ends) or you indicate that your manager cannot support a secondment, your application will be considered on a fixed‑term contract basis instead.

Additional information

We are changing

Hertfordshire County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR), creating a unique opportunity to help shape the future of local services. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

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Working conditions

Contract: Permanent/ Fixed Term