Marketing & Talent Ambassador

The role requires a very confident communicator and a motivated self-starter with strong administration skills, industry nous and some basic digital marketing experience. 

The ideal person is a natural ambassador, front person with energy who may have done work experience in an agency, retail or client or customer facing environment and is looking to launch there career post study. Someone excited by meeting new people daily, with true talent in their field while helping them progress in their careers through the Pond Recruitment.

This is a newly established internal role that is key within The Pond business and its future growth plans and would suit someone looking at a career move into Marketing, HR, Recruitment or People Management. The ideal person will work closely with a team of six recruitment agents helping drive and administer top talent acquisition and retention strategies, talent and candidate services, some marketing and other initiatives associated with attracting and retaining the most premium talent residing or moving to NZ.

Day to day tasks fall into a few key areas:

1. Talent & Candidate Ambassador 

• Calling and booking interviews for the various candidates who register weekly
• Audit and review talent daily and enter their details into an internal system
• Run weekly WIP’s with the senior recruitment agents
• Identify gold star prospects through weekly registrations and vetting
• Research and manage candidate information, CV's and building candidate profiles
• Present new prospects to recruitment agents 

2. Talent & Candidate Acquisition & Retention Marketing

• Run simple acquisition practice, drawing in the best talent into the business.
• Run live retention activities with the Live represented freelance contractors 
• Present & sell The Pond model as the first contact point in the industry
• Writing articles on key talent topics

3. E-mail, Database & Website Marketing

• Manage, build and segment weekly EDMs for “hero” talent twice a week
• Work with an external writer
• Secure assets before delivery (photos)
• Segment e-mail marketing campaigns
• Compose a report of each campaign
• Working with new talent, liaising with and assisting them with their profiles on thepond.net
• Managing and uploading new content to the website – articles, graphics, and blog posts.

4. Basic Office Admin

• Assist with online shopping, stationary, collecting post, organising couriers, office management
• Assisting in organising companies’ internal social activities, events and attendees

Essential Experience

• Natural writer
• Strong administration skills
• Mac Computer literate
• Proficient with MS Office, Word
• Experience with web-based content management systems
• Experience with databases (Xcel)
• Some basic Adobe Photoshop or/and In-Design would be helpful

Qualifications

• A degree or other tertiary level qualification

The Package

• Fortnightly Pay Cycle
• 4.5 day working week (finish 1:30pm Friday)
• Attend industry events & networking 
• Company social calendar
• Central Ponsonby office location