Join the Staff—Recruitment Officer

Location: Canary Wharf, London (United Kingdom); officed-based role with flexible, hybrid office/home working offered
Duration: 6 months fixed-term role
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits
Hours: 35 hours per week

About the role

Job Purpose 

To join the HR team at a time of change and growth and work closely with HR colleagues on a growing portfolio of international recruitment mandates, with a particular focus on the recruitment of technical staff. 

The team

There are currently 8 members of the HR team who are based in two locations - London (Head of HR, HR Manager, HR Officer x 3 and HR Executive) and San Francisco (HR Director and HR & Revenue Manager). The team supports a headcount which has grown from 150 to 270 during the last calendar year following the consolidation of the CDSB and the VRF into the Foundation.

The establishment of the ISSB has resulted in the set-up of new office locations in Frankfurt and Montreal and a need to hire new staff to support the work of the ISSB. This comes in addition to a rolling business as usual recruitment programme which supports the IASB and responds to natural staff turnover.

Due to the size of the Foundation, the HR team have, to date, operated as generalists and have fulfilled recruitment needs as part of the regular employee lifecycle. However, this increase in recruitment activity, together with a need to ensure that BAU activities and other HR projects can be executed as normal, has given rise to the need for an experienced recruiter to join the team on a fixed-term basis, primarily to assist with the recruitment of international technical staff for its offices in London, Frankfurt and Montreal. 

Principal Accountabilities

• Work with managers to co-ordinate the recruitment of staff at all levels across the organisation, covering technical accounting and sustainability roles and operational and support roles: 
  • Identify candidate and role requirements (eg responsibilities, desired skills / qualifications / attributes, remuneration package, including undertaking salary benchmarking). 
  • Draft job descriptions and advertisements. 
  • Agree recruitment processes (eg short-listing, interviews, assessments, participants, timescales, etc). 
  • Advertise roles appropriately (eg ifrs.org website, external job boards, internal postings). 
  • Liaise with, brief and manage relationships with recruitment agencies, including negotiating rates and agreeing terms & conditions. 
• Receive, review, short-list and respond to job applications. 
  • With the help of the HR Executive, organise and conduct interviews: 
  • Oversee the co-ordination of interview logistics. 
  • Prepare interview materials. 
  • Administer interview assessments and collate results.
  • Manage other interview-related activities. 
• Keep the HR team, the relevant line manager and candidates informed of progress / outcomes. 
• Obtain necessary approvals and negotiate job offer details.
• Oversee the verification of references and other pre-employment checks as required. 
• Work with new hires, HR Executive and Senior Governance Officer to coordinate international relocation plans, including the timely processing of visa applications. 

Qualifications and experience

Essential:

• Previous experience as an international recruiter of professional technical staff with niche skills. Experience of recruiting accounting or ESG professionals would be extremely helpful, but experience of recruiting into legal, engineering, scientific, academic or IT disciplines could also apply.
• Educated to degree level. 

Desirable: 

• Familiarity with or understanding of accounting, financial regulation, the ESG sector or membership organisations. 
• Experience of recruiting within Europe and North America. 
• Experience of dealing with international employees and the attendant employment law, immigration and tax considerations. 

Skills and attributes

• A patient, confident and diplomatic team-player who enjoys working with people and can form positive working relationships with individuals with diverse backgrounds, abilities and styles. 
• Ability to build consultative relationships with hiring managers, challenging where appropriate, to understand recruitment needs and ascertain the best means of fulfilling them. 
• Ability to understand technically niche roles and environments to deliver informed recruitment activities and to act as a credible ambassador to candidates. 
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills and strong listening skills. 
• Customer-focused approach. 
• Motivated to learn and open to giving and receiving feedback. 
• Highly organised, focused, able to operate independently and to manage a high workload to ensure that priorities are achieved. 
• Medium proficiency in Microsoft Office and familiarity with HR systems. 

To apply

Please send a detailed CV/résumé to recruitment@ifrs.org. Please include the following information or your application may not be considered:

• the job title/position you are interested in and the location of the job (in the subject line of your email); and
• covering email/letter detailing how you meet the specified role requirements and your salary expectations.

Closing date: 13 November 2022

Interviews are held via video conference as part of our standard international recruitment process.

Due to the number of responses we receive, we are unable to respond individually to each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.