Principal Consultant

Recruitment Team Leader – 2025 State Elections

PERSOLKELLY is one of Australia's largest and longest serving recruitment providers. Delivering both quality temporary and permanent options, we specialise in the recruitment of Professional, ICT, Government, STEM, Management and Executive talent.

PERSOLKELLY have recently been appointed as the sole recruitment partner for the Western Australian Electoral Commission and will be working to provide a 10,000 strong workforce, to deliver the next state election in 2025.

We have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Recruitment Team Leader to manage a small team of consultants/ support staff to ensure the roles in their districts are filled.

Location: Burswood

Length: approximately 5-6 months (ASAP start until 31st March 2025)

Salary: $85,000 - $90,000 + Super (plus a competitive completion bonus)

The role:

• Manage a small team of consultants and support staff to ensure all the roles in the specific areas/ districts have been filled


• Allocate specific workloads to each consultant depending on vacancies/ requirements


• Pull daily reports to ensure recruitment activity is on track working with tight deadlines


• Phone screen candidates and roster them for specific roles


• Send out onboarding to candidates and coordinate with the team to ensure that the relevant onboarding and training has been completed.


• Occasionally liaise directly with stakeholders from WAEC to accommodate for changes in staffing requirements


• Manage the overall coordination and success of the contracted works for the 2025 State Election.


• Attend regular meetings with both internal and external stakeholders and complete any action items.


• Provide overall leadership across a team of project recruiters


• Track and manage the progress of this project through technologies.

Ideally the successful candidates will have the following;

• Experience in leading and coordinating large projects.


• Volume recruitment experience in a fast-paced environment (highly desirable).


• Ability to liaise with internal and external senior stakeholders – managing expectations (deadlines, progress updates etc).


• MUST be able to commit until end March 2025


• Demonstrated time management and experience working within a high-pressured environment.


• Organisational skills including the ability to manage priorities and potentially competing work demands.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to draft simple reports, correspondence and outcomes of meetings.


• Competence in the use of computers, including experience with Excel, Word, Outlook, databases and online applications.


• Ability to lead a team and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Additional Benefits

• Opportunity to manage a large-scale Government project


• Join a large, collaborative team environment


• Completion bonus

If you are interested in the above position please apply online today! If you have any further questions before applying please call Hannah Pearson on 0476 799 260 or email hannah.pearson@persolkelly.com.au