Recruitment Manager

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Victorian Institute of Teaching

**Salary**: $102,696 - $113,473

Occupation: Human Resources

Reference: VG/VIT-EG-1013

The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) is an independent statutory authority, whose primary function is to regulate members of the teaching profession.

**About us**

The VIT’s vision is to ensure that Victorian learners have the best teachers. All our work focusses on raising the quality of teaching, and providing for the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.

We are committed to building an inclusive workforce where the full potential of all employees is reached and our differences are embraced. The VIT supports and enables employees to work safely in a discrimination-free environment and enjoy equal opportunities.

By joining the team at VIT, you will work within a friendly, high-performance culture with a focus on people and their development.

Benefits include
- flexible working arrangements
- consultative leadership team who cares about staff, and actively supports career and professional development
- positive and active social culture
- access to a wide variety of leave options and salary packaging arrangements
- strong commitment to equity, including through a comprehensive Gender Equity Action plan
- mental health and wellbeing initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- ’A grade’ office building with 4.5-star energy rating and modern end-of-trip facilities - only minutes from Southern Cross station.

Be part of a workforce who share VIT’s vision and are committed to contributing to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.

Salary range $102,696 -$113,473 plus statutory super

Do you love to make a difference, enjoy working in a dynamic work environment, do you have a passion for recruiting the right people at the right time and contributing to the development of a high performance and inclusive culture.

If you fit this profile, then you could join the dynamic People and Culture Team within the Executive Branch at VIT. You will contribute to VIT's exciting and challenging mandate to enable quality teaching and provide for the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.

The Recruitment Manager role offers an outstanding career opportunity for a professional who is passionate about using their expertise to support VIT to attract and retain the best people. With expert knowledge in recruitment and talent management and the ability to drive successful recruitment campaigns, the role will ensure VIT is well placed to secure our future workforce.

Be part of a forward-thinking, risk-based regulator where ideas and opinions are valued.

**About the role**

This role will require you to:

- Design and lead the implementation of a recruitment and talent acquisition/retention strategy and planning cycles, in line with business goals and forecasts.
- Manage all recruitment pre-employment screening in line with the Australian and New Zealand Standard on Employment Screening (as amended and varied from time to time)
- Consult with branch managers and directors to understand recruitment needs and successfully use this information to undertake comprehensive workforce planning.
- Build strong internal business partnerships and external relationships with labor hire agencies that deliver excellent recruitment outcomes.
- Ensure appropriate governance of position descriptions and role classifications.
- Provide recruitment and job market insights by staying up to date with industry best practice and legal requirements.
- Monitor and analyse recruitment data to ensure the delivery of key performance objectives and to use this to drive continuous improvement activities.
- Enhance gender equality, inclusion and diversity within VIT recruitment processes and activities.
- Conduct & review exit interview data for trends that may affect recruitment and address any issue in the process.

**About you**

As an experienced recruitment manager you will have sound and practical knowledge of current practices in attraction and retention strategies. You will have experience in managing end to end recruitment campaigns and ideally a passion for child safety and experience working within the education sector.
- Proactive and able to initiate projects and plans relevant to the role, identify, and manage project risks and implement continuous improvement. Monitor performance against objectives, establish systems and procedures to guide work and track progress against KPIs
- Demonstrated listening skills, and the capacity to build rapport and maintain successful relationships relevant to the role.
- Ability to work collaboratively across the business, demonstrating alignment with agreed VIT behaviours.
- Demonstrated, well-developed time management and organisational skills with the ability to set clearly defined objectives and priorities, recognise potential barriers and find effective ways to deal w