Recruitment Administrator in Bristol, Gloucestershire

Account Manager and Resourcer – Education Recruitment sector

£28,000–£30,000 Basic Salary

Bristol | Whiteladies Road, Clifton | Hybrid & Flexible Working | Parking Available

Education People is an established, independent education recruitment agency based in Clifton, Bristol. We work with primary, secondary and SEN schools, supplying teachers and support staff for daily, short-term and long-term assignments.

We're looking for a proactive, highly organised Account Manager to join our friendly team and work closely with our experienced Recruitment Consultants.

This is a hands-on, fast-paced role where you'll play a key part in filling school bookings, sourcing candidates and ensuring our recruitment systems and processes run smoothly.

You'll need to be confident on the telephone, comfortable juggling multiple priorities and have excellent attention to detail.

If you enjoy being busy, building relationships and getting things done, this could be the perfect role for you!

What will you be doing?

Working alongside our Recruitment Consultants, you'll help ensure schools receive the right staff, bookings are filled efficiently and candidate information is kept up to date.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Filling school bookings: Matching available teachers and support staff to daily supply, short-term and long-term assignments.

• Candidate resourcing: Proactively searching for suitable candidates using job boards, CV databases, LinkedIn and other recruitment platforms.

• Telephone communication: Making and receiving calls with candidates and schools, confirming availability, discussing opportunities and coordinating bookings.

• Writing candidate profiles: Preparing clear, professional and engaging candidate profiles to share with schools. Booking administration: Accurately entering new bookings, assignments and updates onto our recruitment CRM.

• CRM management: Maintaining accurate candidate records, availability, client information and booking details. Supporting Recruitment Consultants: Working closely with consultants to understand their desk requirements, prioritise vacancies and fill bookings quickly.

• Candidate engagement: Building relationships with registered candidates, keeping in regular contact and encouraging ongoing availability.

This is a varied role where you'll need to think on your feet, prioritise effectively and enjoy working in a busy recruitment environment.

Who are we looking for?

We're looking for someone with excellent communication skills, strong administrative ability and the confidence to manage a busy workload.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent telephone skills, with confidence making outbound calls and building rapport quickly.

• Previous experience using CRM systems, with the ability to maintain accurate records and manage information efficiently.

• Strong administrative skills, including accurate data entry, attention to detail and excellent organisation.

• Good written communication skills, with the ability to write professional candidate profiles and emails.

• Experience in candidate sourcing, recruitment or a similar people-focused role would be an advantage.

• The ability to work quickly and accurately while managing competing priorities. A proactive, positive attitude and a willingness to take ownership of tasks.

• Strong IT skills and confidence using Microsoft Office, databases and online platforms.

• A collaborative approach and the ability to work closely with a busy recruitment team.

Previous recruitment experience would be beneficial, but we're also interested in candidates with strong account management, customer service or administration backgrounds who are confident using the telephone and CRM systems.

What's in it for you?

We believe in rewarding hard work and creating a supportive working environment where people enjoy coming to work.

• £28,000–£30,000 basic salary, depending on experience.

• 23 days' annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday off!

• Up to 10 days' annual leave can be taken during school term time.

• Flexible working, including early starts from home and a 4pm office finish.

• One full work-from-home day per week, once established in the role.

• Reduced school-holiday hours – 9am–3pm or similar. Parking available at our Clifton office.

• Company pension scheme.

• Regular team socials and a friendly, supportive working environment.

• The opportunity to develop your career within an established independent agency.

We do things a little differently!

At Education People, we understand that education recruitment isn't a typical 9–5 job. Early mornings are busy, schools need support at short notice, and flexibility is important.

That's why we've introduced a more flexible way of working.

Here's how your working day looks:

• 6:30am–9am – Start from home: Support the team with early morning bookings, candidate availability and arranging daily supply cover.

• 9am–9:30am – Travel to the office: Make your way to our Clifton office, arriving by 9:30am.

• 9:30am–4pm – Office-based: Work alongside the recruitment team, filling bookings, resourcing candidates, writing profiles and managing the CRM.

• One full WFH day per week, once established in the role.

• 8.30am-5pm shifts also part of the rota, depending on staffing within the office

• School holidays: Enjoy reduced working hours 

We believe in giving our team the flexibility and autonomy to deliver great results while enjoying a better work-life balance.

We're an independent, boutique education recruitment agency with a loyal client base, an established reputation and a team who genuinely enjoy working together. this role is to fill the bookings we ge in as quickly as possible.

You'll work closely with experienced Recruitment Consultants, become an important part of our daily operations and have the opportunity to make a real difference to the success of the business.

If you're a confident communicator, highly organised, enjoy a busy environment and love the satisfaction of getting things done, we'd love to hear from you!