What are the responsibilities and job description for the Recruitment Specialist position at Tait - New Zealand?
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Te Tūranga - The Role
Based in Christchurch, the Recruitment Specialist plays a key role in delivering a seamless, proactive, and high-quality recruitment service across the organisation.
This is an end-to-end recruitment role with a strong focus on building capability, embedding best practice, and designing forward-thinking sourcing strategies to attract diverse talent across New Zealand and, at times, regional markets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing robust, forward-looking recruitment strategies that attract and engage diverse talent.
- Partner with leaders to proactively manage workforce planning.
- Ownership of the entire end to end recruitment process to ensure the delivery of a consistent, high-quality recruitment experience by supporting, guiding and enabling hiring managers throughout the full recruitment lifecycle
- Champion a consistent, high-quality candidate experience
- Lead key recruitment outreach initiatives, including internship and graduate programmes
- Lead the adoption and optimisation of recruitment systems (Workday), ensuring hiring managers and HR team members are trained, supported, and confident in their use.
- Promote fair, consistent, and best-practice recruitment approaches across the business
Ō pūkenga - About You
You're a proactive and relationship-focused recruitment professional who enjoys partnering with leaders and influencing great hiring outcomes.
You bring:
- 3 years' recruitment experience in-house or agency
- Strong knowledge of recruitment best practice and sourcing strategies
- Experience using tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, talent pipelines, and ATS/CRM systems (ideally Workday)
- Demonstrated experience owning end to end recruitment
- Confidence coaching and advising hiring managers
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- A focus on delivering a positive and consistent candidate experience
Ngā painga - what's in it for you?
We are an employer that is committed to making a difference for families and communities and supporting people to build rewarding careers. We achieve this through employing people who connect with our Values (Commitment to listen. Courage to Act and Integrity to Deliver) that underpin our way of working together. We are committed to investing in our people, developing both individuals and teams to support a high-performance culture.
- We prioritise your wellbeing through health insurance after 12 months, annual flu vaccinations and extra sick leave in your first year.
- We provide a comfortable work environment through modern office facilities with free onsite parking, gym, and café.
- We recognise your commitment through long service benefits.
- We balance work with fun through our active social club!
Ko wai mātou - About Us
For more than 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation and utility customers around the world. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now have a network of customers and offices that spans the globe.
Our employees value being part of a creative team committed to providing technological solutions that make a real difference to the communities we support. By joining Tait, you'll be joining a community of people with a wealth of knowledge and expertise, who care deeply about their work and the genuine impact it has for our customers, and who support each other to grow and develop.
Ko koe pea tēnei? - Sound like your kind of role?
If you are looking to take that next step in your career and are ready to work for a high performing organisation, alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, please submit your application with CV and cover Letter by Thursday 4th June. We look forward to hearing from you.
Applications will be assessed as they are received, and your CV will be held unless you contact us to requesting this to be removed:
For more information about the company, our products and solutions offered to our customers, please visit our website: www.taitcommunications.com