Jill Green

Profile

Jill Green

• Position: Recruitment Manager
• Email: J.R.Green1@leeds.ac.uk
• Phone: +44 (0)113 343 7960 
• Location: 2.07 Charles Thackrah Building, LUBS
• Website: LinkedIn

Jill is an enthusiastic professional with a wealth of experience within a range of sectors including; Education, FMCG (Marks and Spencer, Thorntons plc, Nestle UK, Dr. Oetker), SMEs and Charities. She has a wide range of skills including; Professional Development, Recruitment, Student Employability, Marketing, Communications, Project Management, Training & Development and Business Development.

As the Recruitment Manager for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Programme Jill is responsible for;

• Recruiting high quality businesses to apply to the programme
• Proactively contributing and executing to the recruitment strategy
• Screening potential applications against criteria and monitor applications
• Managing the application process, reviewing applications, contributing to shortlisting panels, monitoring status and statistical analysis and providing timely feedback
• Horizon scanning for potential partners and participants
• Proactively leading with the distribution of marketing collateral to partners
• Contributing to and advising on the national marketing plan
• Liaising and encouraging potential referral partners regarding hosting recruitment events, sourcing speaker
• Liaising with potential partners to attend events
• Representing and promoting the programme at external events
• Leading the Recruitment Officer to ensure exceptional customer and client service

In her previous Employability role within The School of Food Science and Nutrition she was responsible for;                       

• Strategy development of the School’s industrial placement and international portfolio.
• Teaching and facilitating Food Science and Nutrition specific employability lectures and workshops.
• Promoting and representing the School to prospective employers developing and maintaining ongoing relationships with key external stakeholders.
• Generating and developing new opportunities to enhance student employability e.g. industry visits and course related volunteering.
• Managing and leading the undergraduate industrial placement scheme. Monitoring the on-going progress of placement students, allocating academic supervisors, co-coordinating site visits, and co-assessing their work relating to the scheme.  Organising successful student placements by monitoring suitability of placements and student performance.
• Promoting and advertising and new placement opportunities.
• Mentoring students in writing applications, CVs and giving specific advice on the requirements for undertaking an industrial placement.
• Supporting placement students by being their first point of contact, offering administrative and pastoral support throughout their year in industry.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Food Science, University of Leeds

Research groups and institutes

• Executive education