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Job Title: Interim Talent Acquisition Manager

Salary: £48,563.95 per annum (Band F level 3, including Market Supplement and Outer London Weighting)

Location:  Gilwell Park, Chingford, London (Attendance to Gilwell Park Office – once a week with occasional working at other Scouts sites)

Contract Type: Fixed term maternity cover for up to 12 months

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

About the Team and the role

Join Our People & Culture Team

Are you passionate about recruitment and making a real difference? Our People & Culture Department is a vibrant, diverse, and forward-thinking team, supporting over 400 staff across a range of dynamic subsidiaries. We're committed to creating a workplace where every voice is heard and every candidate journey matters.

As part of our recruitment function, you'll manage end-to-end hiring for a values-driven charity, backed by a supportive team. You'll drive continuous improvement through smarter systems, insightful reporting, and our bold Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan to attract more diverse talent.

You'll work closely with hiring managers, providing expert guidance to ensure recruitment is fair, effective, and inclusive. Collaborating with HR and Learning & Development colleagues, you'll help shape a positive experience for both candidates and hiring teams.

As the Interim Talent Acquisition Manager, you will:

Deliver an efficient and effective endto-end staff recruitment function for all the Scouts’ departments

Contribute to the design and implementation of the team’s key objectives and programmes of work

Contribute to the development of the Scouts’ ‘employer brand’ and its approach to applicant attraction

Keep up to date with trends in the labour market and good practice in recruitment 

As the Interim Talent Acquisition Manager, you will have:

Ability to provide a customer focused recruitment service and gain respect from managers, staff and applicants

Excellent communications skills in writing and in person

High level IT skills to make maximum use of our HRIS and ATS to produce analysis and reports

Excellent customer focused approach

Experience of managing a team

Experience of in house recruitment activity across a broad range of jobs and specialisms 

Benefits

We are an award-winning Charity of the Year (Charity Times Awards 2022) with over 400 employees across multiple locations across the country.

Flexible working hours

28 days holiday and going up to 32 days after 2 years’ service plus additional days at Christmas

Onsite accommodation for all staff members staying over at Gilwell Park 

For more details about the Scouts and our great benefits