We're looking for a Resourcing Business Partner to join us at Save the Children UK on a 12-month fixed term contract. If you're an experienced recruitment professional looking for a role where you'll have true accountability and opportunity to deliver huge impact, we'd love to hear from you!

Note: This is a maternity cover contract opportunity for approx 12-months to start in January 2027.

About us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

In this role, you will:

• Lead and collaborate on recruitment projects, including the adoption of new technologies, process improvements and new recruitment methodologies.
• Embed new resourcing initiatives across the organisation, through communicating changes effectively and influencing key stakeholders to adopt new ways of working.
• Take a data driven approach to recruitment; developing and tracking key performance indicators, including analysing recruitment metrics to inform talent acquisition strategies and improve recruitment processes.
• Embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) throughout the recruitment process, by developing and implementing strategies to increase candidate attraction in underrepresented groups in line with DEI strategy and organisational goals, working in partnership with the DEI team to develop and deliver inclusive recruitment initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to foster a collaborative approach to talent acquisition, with an adult-to-adult mindset.

About you

You'll be an experienced in-house recruiter dedicated to delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience, with proven experience developing new initiatives and process improvements throughout the recruitment lifecycle. 

You'll bring high levels of self-management, accountability, learning agility and flexibility, with excellent self and interpersonal awareness and resilience.

To be successful, you'll demonstrate:

• Significant experience leading high-volume in-house recruitment across a range of functions and levels (experience recruiting for marketing, fundraising and philanthropy roles would be beneficial).
• Excellent communication skills, with proven experience partnering with leaders to effectively match talent to their needs, and a track record of advising and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into recruitment initiatives.
• Proven ability in identifying and sourcing top-tier talent using a variety of sourcing approaches and channels, including job boards, social media, professional networking, and direct outreach.
• Evidence of cultivating relationships with candidates, including talent pipelining for future needs.
• The ability to analyse and present data related to recruitment metrics, such as time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and candidate conversion rates to inform recruitment strategy.
• Evidence of leading talent acquisition initiatives and thinking holistically about talent processes, ensuring all are aligned and contribute to our overall People agenda, DEI strategy and wider organisational goals.
• A track record in simultaneously managing multiple recruitment projects/initiatives alongside your active roles, with an understanding of agile principles.
• Proven experience of, and commitment to, ensuring an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience, with experience delivering improvement initiatives in these areas.

• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you 

We promote flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, and wellbeing both at work and beyond, and offer a wide range of benefits designed to reward your hard work and inspire you to help improve the lives of children every day. 

Some of the benefits you can expect include: 

• Generous Annual Leave – Starting at 27 days per year (pro rata for part-time employees) increasing with service up to 32 days, plus public holidays and our annual 'Save the Children Day'. 
• Family Leave – Up to 39 weeks of maternity/adoption pay (including up to 21 weeks full pay) and paternity/adoption leave of 10 weeks full pay (plus statutory entitlement).  
• Special Leave – Up to 10 days paid leave per year (pro rata) for urgent or exceptional personal circumstances, without using annual leave.  
• Volunteer Leave – Up to 3 days paid leave per year to support volunteering and give back. 
• Pension & Life Assurance – Helping you plan for the future with up to 7% employer pension contributions. 
• Employee Discounts – Access thousands of deals across groceries, retail, tech, travel, fitness, and more.  
• Health & Wellbeing Support – Including access to a 24/7 Virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling, eye care support, and seasonal flu vaccinations. 

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Location & Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office (usually between 2–4 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact.

This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce, and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where structural inequality is actively addressed, and all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can thrive. 

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and are especially interested in hearing from people with diverse and intersecting identities such as lived experience of poverty, people of faith, people of colour, people with disabilities, with experience of migration and/or refugee status, care-experienced people, the LGBTQIA+ community and individuals with experience living in diverse families.  

We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. We know that different voices working together will enable us to do our work better, improving the lives of children around the world. 

Salary Structure: 

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: Save the Children | Careers

Interview Expenses: 

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• A satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• Receipt of satisfactory references - As a committed member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, as part of our onboarding process, Save the Children UK will undertake a minimum of 2 references, and any additional references required to collectively cover the last 5 years of your employment history.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here.

For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk