Talent Acquisition Executive – Education GSM – GEMS Education

This Talent Acquisition Executive role sits within GEMS Education’s Group Shared Services (GSM) function, focused specifically on recruiting high-quality candidates — likely teaching and school support staff — across the wider GEMS Education group. The role acts as a key point of contact for candidates throughout their recruitment journey, representing GEMS’s values and employer brand along the way.

Day to day, the work includes sourcing and screening candidates, coordinating interviews with hiring managers across schools, managing candidate communication and experience, and keeping recruitment processes moving efficiently given the scale of hiring a large school network requires. There’s a clear service element to the role, since candidates’ experience of the recruitment process shapes their impression of GEMS before they’ve even joined.

It suits someone with recruitment or talent acquisition experience, ideally within education or another people-intensive sector, who is organised, personable, and comfortable managing multiple candidate pipelines simultaneously.

Working within a Group Shared Services structure for an organisation as large as GEMS Education means exposure to recruitment at genuine scale, across many schools and roles rather than a single-site hiring function.

Recruiting high-quality candidates at the scale GEMS Education operates at is directly tied to the academic and operational quality of its schools, since schools are only as good as the teachers and staff within them. A Talent Acquisition Executive who manages the candidate experience well also protects GEMS's employer brand, which matters enormously in a competitive market for good teaching talent where candidates often have multiple options. Being a key point of contact throughout the recruitment journey means this role shapes a candidate's first real impression of GEMS, and a poor recruitment experience can cost the group strong candidates even before they're offered a role. Within a Group Shared Services structure, the efficiency and consistency this role brings to recruitment also reduces the burden on individual school leadership teams, who would otherwise need to manage sourcing and screening themselves on top of running their schools. At the scale of GEMS Education's network, even modest improvements in recruitment efficiency and candidate quality compound into a meaningful effect on overall talent quality across the group.

Working as a Talent Acquisition Executive within a large education group's shared services function is a strong way to build recruitment expertise at genuine scale, managing multiple pipelines and stakeholders simultaneously rather than hiring for a single team or site. The role builds skills in candidate relationship management, stakeholder coordination with hiring managers across different schools, and the kind of process discipline needed to keep high-volume recruitment moving efficiently without sacrificing candidate experience. Specialising in education-sector recruitment specifically is a genuinely useful niche, since understanding what teaching and school-support candidates look for, and how to represent a school group's values authentically, is distinct from generic corporate recruitment. People who perform well in this kind of role are well positioned to move into senior talent acquisition, recruitment team leadership, or broader HR roles within education or other people-intensive sectors. Working within GEMS Education specifically also provides a strong brand name and network within regional education recruitment, which is valuable both for internal progression within the group and for future opportunities within the broader education sector. It's also worth noting that experience gained in a role like this tends to read well on a CV precisely because it shows a candidate can operate within a structured, process-driven organization, which many employers specifically look for when hiring for their next level of responsibility.

• Experience in recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally within education or another people-intensive sector
• Strong candidate relationship management and communication skills
• Ability to coordinate effectively with hiring managers across multiple schools or departments
• Good organisational skills for managing multiple recruitment pipelines simultaneously
• Understanding of GEMS Education’s values and ability to represent them authentically to candidates
• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business or a related field
• Comfort working within a shared-services, multi-stakeholder recruitment environment