Resourcer - Newport

Zen Educate
Newport, United Kingdom
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in the education sector and a passion for social impact.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in education and a drive to contribute to social impact initiatives
    — “Passion for companies that have a positive social impact and the education sector”
  • Individuals who are comfortable with rapid change and taking ownership of evolving responsibilities
    — “You love to take ownership and want to grow with us! 🙌”
  • People who enjoy building relationships and managing candidate onboarding processes
    — “Interact with candidates in a friendly and helpful manner and maintain positive relationships to keep them on board with us”

Things to consider

  • The role involves some Saturday work hours in addition to weekday shifts
    — “37 hours per week: any four weekdays, 9 am–6 pm, plus Saturday 10 am-3 pm”
  • Candidates may need to be flexible with their hours as the schedule is not fixed
    — “any four weekdays, 9 am–6 pm, plus Saturday 10 am-3 pm”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to manage and grow candidate relationships in your resume and interview responses
    — “Interact with candidates in a friendly and helpful manner and maintain positive relationships”
  • Emphasize your adaptability and eagerness to grow quickly within a dynamic startup environment
    — “Growth Mindset - Adaptable and excited by the prospect of moving fast 🚀”
  • Showcase any experience in vetting processes or right to work checks to align with the role’s responsibilities
    — “Organised with vetting processes and ensure all right to work checks are completed”
  • Demonstrate your ability to collaborate across departments, especially with sales and technology teams
    — “Work collaboratively across the business with the sales and technology teams”
  • Mention any prior involvement in the education sector, even if informal, to align with the role’s domain focus
    — “Having experience and/or strong knowledge of the education sector is a big plus”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • ensuring smooth running of daily operations
  • increasing number of talented candidates on platform
  • helping place candidates in roles
Typical background
recruitment coordinationeducation sector

Skills & requirements

Required

Recruitment CoordinationCandidate OnboardingCandidate VettingCandidate ExperienceTeam CollaborationEducation Sector Knowledge

Preferred

Education Sector ExperienceTeaching Qualifications

Stack & domain

Candidate OnboardingVetting ProcessesRight To Work ChecksMatching Skills To RolesCollaboration With Sales And Technology TeamsMission-drivenGrowth MindsetCan-do AttitudeBias For ActionOwnershipFriendly And HelpfulPositive RelationshipsOrganisedTeamworkEducation SectorRecruitmentOperationsCandidate Experience

About the role

Original posting from Zen Educate via Lever

Location: Bristol

Hours: 37 hours per week: any four weekdays, 9 am–6 pm, plus Saturday 10 am-3 pm.

Salary: Up to £32K per annum OTE

About us:

Zen is revolutionising education. Schools spend over £2bn a year on agency staff, and £600m of that goes straight into the pockets of recruitment agencies. That’s why we’ve built an alternative. 

Our online platform gives schools instant access to hundreds of profiles of fully vetted teachers and support staff. Since launching in 2017, we’ve saved schools over £10m – money that goes straight back into school budgets and increases teachers’ pay.

We have recently raised our Series B funding of $37mil, the largest round in European EdTech this year. This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference and be part of a high growth start-up that is expanding rapidly in the UK and US markets!

The opportunity:

This is your chance to join a tech startup in hypergrowth. We’re passionate about professional development, and we’ll work to maximise your personal and career growth.

We're looking for enthusiastic, mission-driven people who fit our values and are passionate about what we do. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match the job description.

Our Ideal Candidate 🙋

  • Passion for companies that have a positive social impact and the education sector
  • Growth Mindset - Adaptable and excited by the prospect of moving fast 🚀
  • ‘Can do’ attitude, bias for action and wants to be part of a growing motivated team.

· You love to take ownership and want to grow with us! 🙌

·  Having experience and/or strong knowledge of the education sector is a big plus

Helpful to have but not essential💥

  • Interest in and the desire to work as part of an operations team
  • Strong knowledge of the UK education sector. Formal qualifications / experience in teaching is a huge plus🧠

What will you be doing? 🤔

  • Help ensure the smooth running of daily operations in the business including maintaining liquidity of candidates available for cover as well as ensuring fulfillment of any short term bookings
  • Carry out the necessary onboarding processes and assessment for teachers and teaching assistants📚
  • Interact with candidates in a friendly and helpful manner and maintain positive relationships to keep them on board with us and create a great candidate experience ☀️
  • Increase the number of talented candidates on our platform and help place them in roles by matching their skills to the schools’ requirements
  • Organised with vetting processes and ensure all right to work checks are completed
  • Work collaboratively across the business with the sales and technology teams to help improve efficiency

What's in it for you?

  • Work that you want to talk about
  • Competitive salary
  • Ownership in the company
  • 25 days of holiday
  • 1-1 coaching
  • Life Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Electric Car Scheme 

We can’t wait to hear from you!

Source: Zen Educate careers (Lever)

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