Are you a fast-moving recruitment professional who thrives in high-volume, fast-paced hiring environments? Join our award-winning Ahmedabad team and support UK clients by connecting passionate education professionals with daily supply, long-term, and permanent staffing requirements across Primary, Secondary, and Special Educational Needs (SEN) schools.
Who We Are
At IMS Group, we are an engine for global talent. With over 3,000 employees and a footprint spanning 250+ global clients across the APAC, EU, and US, we connect top-tier professionals with Fortune 500 companies and premier educational institutions. We are proud to be a 5-time consecutive winner of the Great Place to Work® award because we invest heavily in our people, offering world-class mentorship, health benefits, and long-term career growth.
The Opportunity: What You Will Do
As a UK Education Recruitment Specialist, you will manage fast-paced recruitment and daily cover delivery for UK schools and educational trusts. You will play a critical role in ensuring classrooms are fully staffed with vetted, high-quality educators.
Shift Details: This role aligns with standard UK business hours to support the critical “morning rush” of school cover and daily operations (typically starting between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM IST).
Your day-to-day will focus on:
- Education Professional Sourcing: Identify, approach, and engage active and passive candidates, including Qualified Teachers (QTS), Cover Supervisors, Teaching Assistants (TAs), Early Years Educators, and SEN Specialists.
- Fast-Paced Supply Booking & Fulfillment: Manage rapid-response recruitment activity, particularly the early morning “supply rush.” This includes candidate availability checks, daily booking confirmations, diary management, client follow-ups, and handling last-minute emergency classroom cover.
- Stringent Safer Recruitment Compliance: Match candidates to schools by ensuring strict adherence to UK Department for Education (DfE) safeguarding standards. This involves rigorously verifying QTS status, Enhanced DBS checks, right-to-work, referencing, and mandatory safeguarding training.
- Stakeholder & System Coordination: Build strong, trust-based relationships with educators, UK account managers, and school leadership (Headteachers/Cover Managers) while maintaining accurate booking updates, compliance notes, and activity tracking in internal CRMs and education-specific booking systems.
What You Bring to the Table
We welcome applications from recruiters with experience in education staffing, daily supply booking, compliance-heavy recruitment, or fast-paced temporary staffing environments. We are looking for:
- Education Recruitment Experience: Proven experience handling supply/temp bookings, candidate sourcing, availability checks, and urgent fulfillment specifically within the education or highly regulated sectors.
- UK Education Sector Awareness: A solid understanding of the UK education market, safeguarding regulations, Safer Recruitment compliance (Enhanced DBS, QTS), or a strong willingness and capability to master UK education recruitment processes rapidly.
- Urgency, Communication & Ownership: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, relentless follow-up discipline, strict attention to compliance detail, and the ability to manage multiple urgent vacancies under intense time pressure.
- UK Shift Flexibility: Strict availability and comfort working standard UK shift timings (IST afternoons/evenings) to ensure seamless, real-time support for UK schools.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Specialist UK Education Exposure: Build highly sought-after expertise in a rewarding, impact-driven sector, specializing in education staffing and advanced safeguarding compliance.
- Structured Shift Environment: Work in a clearly defined UK support model with strong team coordination, process guidance, and operational support.
- Career Growth: Receive hands-on mentorship, specialized compliance training, and clear pathways to grow into an expert UK Education recruitment professional.
- The Culture: A recognized Great Place to Work® environment that champions health benefits, dynamic energy, and long-term professional development.
Ready to Build With Us?
If you have the urgency, communication skills, and resilience to support critical, high-volume UK education requirements, we want to hear from you. Apply today to make an impact in global education staffing!
