As part of the Cabin Crew recruitment team your role will deliver a comprehensive recruitment experience for the Emirates Group, from sourcing to hiring, ensuring candidates align with our values. Achieve consistent quality outcomes through strategic recruitment methodologies, while maintaining the integrity of our process during this exciting time of transformational change.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand Workforce Needs: Translate departmental objectives and workforce needs


• Promote Emirates Group: Position Emirates Group as the employer of choice locally and globally. Collaborate with the Corporate Communication & Brand team to implement marketing strategies across social media channels like TikTok, Instagram, and job boards.


• Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including HR departments, executive search firms, and agencies, ensuring high standards of candidate service.


• Regional Audits and Insights: Conduct regional audits on assessment days, providing insights for improvement and driving regional talent engagement strategies.


• Market Trends and Talent Engagement: Offer expert guidance on regional market trends and recommend new approaches to talent engagement and assessment.


• Industry Engagement: Lead engagement with local industries such as hospitality, airport, travel, leisure, and retail. Coordinate career events and foster relationships with recruitment agencies, hospitality schools, and other partners relevant to cabin crew recruitment.


• Data-Driven Insights: Provide management with data insights on offers declined, salary comparisons, and recruitment challenges, recommending solutions to attract candidates.


• Effective Recruitment Channels: Agree with hiring managers on the best recruitment channels, such as IVNs, job boards, career portals, and LinkedIn, to advertise vacancies and attract global talent.


• Selection Methodologies: Design and implement recruitment and selection methodologies with the Business Psychologist team to identify candidates technical and cultural fit. Guide hiring managers in interpreting behavioral evidence and influencing selection decisions.

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)  5+ yrs OR 12 yrs schooling or equivalent  8+ yrs in recruitment, either an in-house or agency recruiter


• CIPD or any other HR professional certification is desirable

Knowledge/skills:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a leadership role with relevant experience managing a remote team and high-volume processes.


• Must be able to travel to cover recruitment campaigns.


• Demonstrable ability to coach, develop and promote high performance within a complex remote environment


• In depth understanding for regional best practice and recruitment trends within their chosen region, with demonstrable experience for driving performance improvement 


• Familiarity with nurturing strategic relationships and event management with local partnership organisations i.e. hospitality schools and recruitment agencies


• Experience with various selection processes (Digital Assessments, video interviewing, telephone interviewing, reference checks)


• Ability to conduct interviews using a behavioural competency framework


• Ability to organise skills assessment centres (In tray activities, work samples, presentation topics)


• Familiarity with HR databases, ATS systems and CMS Systems


• Experience working for a recruitment solution, ideally within the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) environment, in-house or agency recruiter is preferable.


• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and fluent in English. Additional languages are desirable.