Recruitment and Engagement Manager
Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College, Barking, Essex, IG11 9AG21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 September 2026 at 4pm
Date listed
7 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £40,182.00 - £42,060.00 Annually (FTE) S02, Pt 26-28 (£40,182-£42,060 (FT)) pro rata salary, likely to be between approx. (£35,450-£37,107) subject to experience working days and continuous service
Recruitment and Engagement Manager job summary
RECRUITMENT AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Start Date: As soon as possible
Salary: S02, Pt 26-28 (£40,182-£42,060 (FT)) pro rata salary, likely to be between approx. (£35,450-£37,107) subject to experience working days and continuous service
35 hours per week, term time plus 10 days (throughout the year in agreement with the School Business Manager)
Working Hours: 08:00 to 16:00
Do you have copywriting experience?
Are you passionate about attracting the right candidates for a company?
Do you have a gift for storytelling, and know how to reach and engage your audience on a human level?
We are looking for an ambitious and creative professional bring your passion and skills to our growing partnership of schools at an exciting stage of development as a Recruitment and Engagement Manager. As we continue to strengthen and expand our central services, this newly created role offers a unique opportunity to design, develop and lead a modern recruitment and engagement function that attracts exceptional talent and supports an outstanding employee experience.
We are looking for someone who can authentically communicate what makes our schools great places to work, while continuously improving recruitment processes, candidate engagement and workforce development across the partnership. If you’d love to help us tell our story, we’d love to meet you!
About the Role
This is a role where your ideas will be valued and where you will have real scope to help shape and improve the way our recruitment services are delivered across our partnership schools. Working closely with leaders, line managers and agencies, you will help develop and improve recruitment systems, processes and services, always looking for smarter, more effective ways of working that support our staff and school community.
You will lead the end-to-end recruitment process across our schools, developing innovative attraction strategies, managing recruitment campaigns and creating engaging content that strengthens our reputation as an employer of choice. This role is ideal for someone who will think strategically about channels and messaging, bolster recruitment and monitor efficacy.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and coordinate all recruitment and candidate engagement activities across the partnership.
- Develop creative recruitment campaigns and marketing strategies to attract high-quality candidates.
- Manage recruitment platforms, careers pages and applicant tracking systems.
- Create compelling recruitment content for websites, social media and promotional materials.
- Support hiring managers with recruitment planning, interview processes and candidate selection.
- Analyse recruitment data and identify opportunities to improve attraction, retention and recruitment outcomes.
- Develop and maintain recruitment resources, onboarding materials and recruitment documentation.
- Ensure all recruitment activity complies with safeguarding, safer recruitment and employment legislation.
- Support employee engagement and workforce development initiatives across the partnership.
- Build positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
In return, we offer:
- A supportive and collaborative working environment.
- The opportunity to lead and shape a newly created role.
- Professional development and career progression opportunities.
- The chance to make a meaningful difference to staff and pupils across our schools.
This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact across a growing federation of schools. You will have the freedom to shape systems, introduce new ideas and influence how we attract, engage and retain talented people.
The partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a comprehensive screening process, including an enhanced DBS check, will be undertaken for the successful applicant. Online searches may be conducted for all shortlisted candidates and will be conducted for all successful candidates as part of our due diligence checks.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Barking Abbey School, A Specialist Sports and Humanities College
- Organisation type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- Size
- 2418 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
Welcome to Barking Abbey school and thank you for expressing an interest in applying for a position here.
For me there are three simple things that I want us to achieve at Barking Abbey school.
First, our motto ‘Give and Expect the best’ leads us to want to be the best in everything we do. We have some of the best results in the area, we have pupils at the best universities, we have the most pupils on apprenticeships in the entire country, we have basketball players in the best leagues and so much more. We have all of this because we push our pupils and each other to excel. All of us try to be our best every day.
Second, I firmly believe that if you can’t see it you can’t be it. We want to give our pupils the chance to see successful people of every religion, colour and background whilst they are at school. Whatever their dreams
we want to support them and provide the networks and contacts to help them to achieve.
Finally, we want our pupils to have a voice in the world. To be confident enough to express their views and also to have the knowledge to be able to make an effective contribution. The more you know the more
powerful you can be in the world.
Sir Tim Brighouse said “If a teacher makes the weather the school creates the climate.” and I firmly believe this. It is our role as a leadership team to create the best possible learning environment for our teachers
to teach in. In return we expect the best possible teaching from them and our results show this over time.
If you share our ethos and values and absolutely believe in the potential of all young people then we can offer you the chance to make a difference and change our community for the better, and look forward to receiving
your application form and welcoming you to our school.
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