Find your place with Mercy Ships
Category: Recruitment
Publish date: 04/01/2024
If you’re looking for a meaningful next step in your career, you’ll feel at home with Mercy Ships.
We are a pioneering global health charity, bringing free, life-changing surgeries to women, men and children facing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
We run the largest charity hospital ships in the world, the Global Mercy and the Africa Mercy. Our volunteer crew come from around the world to give our patients expert medical care.
By training healthcare professionals and building strong medical services, we make a lasting impact.
The opportunity: Lead Recruiter
Are you an experienced communicator? Do you have strong people skills? Are you willing to learn new systems, and are passionate about helping others find the right path? Then this might just be the role for you!
As Lead Recruiter, you’ll be responsible for finding and identifying the best volunteer talent to join the bold mission of Mercy Ships. You’ll be an advocate for candidates, a consultant to the staffing team, and a champion of our mission and values.
You’ll design and implement innovative sourcing strategies and actively recruit volunteer candidates and staff talent. And you’ll do this by researching and developing relationships with professional associations, schools, organisations, while maintaining rapport with community contacts.
You’ll also engage and expand our existing network of potential candidates, including from alumni (past volunteers), industry contacts, hiring sites, and training centres. You’ll ensure a positive experience for every candidate, and collaborate with the global recruitment team, sharing best practices and networks.
Why work for us
This is a key role in helping Mercy Ships achieve our ambitious targets for 2024. We’re looking to increase our income and engage with new supporters so we can help more patients and train more healthcare professionals.
At Mercy Ships UK, we’re a committed team of about 30 people working in a variety of hybrid ways. We have high standards for working together and love to challenge one another to do better. We’re an agile and high-performing team, motivated by shared success.
How Tori Gilmartin joined us onboard:
After serving as a nurse in the Armed Forces, Tori chose to serve on board our Mercy Ship as an intensive care nurse for two months in Senegal:
“For many people who have no access to hospital, their ailments result in lifelong shame, disability and death. I want to use my skills to give others greater opportunities in life. Behind every statistic there’s a face, a name and a story. I want to be part of changing those statistics – and you can be too.”
Learn more about Mercy Ships
Your next step from leaving Service
Whether you’re preparing to leave service, or you’ve already been discharged, this could be the next step for you.
At Mercy Ships, we’re a global crew of experts. We need all skills and talents to deliver our mission, from maritime to medical, catering to engineering. We seek the best for our staff and volunteers, both at home and overseas, and believe everyone should be given the chance to transform their lives.
We also offer a range of benefits, including 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing + 1 day with each year of service, Christmas shutdown, up to 7% employer pension contribution, eye care, family-friendly policies and access to the EPA Wellbeing scheme.
If the opportunity to join Mercy Ships interests you, and you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed in this role, then we would love to hear from you. Any questions? Email us.
Apply today on CTP RightJob: Job ID - N579529
We also have other roles coming soon, such as Individual Giving Manager - N582403 – which you’ll find exclusively on CTP RightJob. Simply search for “Mercy Ships” to see our full list of opportunities!