Specialist Recruitment Consultant

• Unique opportunity to recruit medical professionals across varying health disciplines for the ADF.

• Be part of one of the most important missions in Australia

• Purpose-driven recruitment – Support the Australia Defence Force

The Specialist Recruitment Consultant is responsible for managing and delivering recruitment activities for the Professional talent stream, always ensuring compliance with policy and procedural requirements, applying a best practice, innovative approach to recruiting. This role is responsible for achieving medical professional recruitment targets for ADF Careers.

What you will be doing

Reporting to a Service Recruitment Team Leader, you will seek and maintain a deep understanding of ADF roles to best match candidate’s skills set, capability and suitability whilst delivering an exceptional candidate and client experience.

You will:

• Seek and maintain a deep understanding of ADF roles to best match to a candidate’s skillset, capabilities and suitability, delivering an exceptional candidate and client experience.

• Proactively source passive candidates across a number of professional disciplines. (e.g.Medical, Allied Health,,)

• Identify and address talent pipeline shortfalls through data and candidate pipeline analysis and development of external market recruitment strategies to engage with candidates and build specialist talent pools across Navy, Army and Air Force

• Plan and action specific and targeted sourcing strategies to attract, engage and inform professional candidates

• Build and maintain productive candidate networks which identify, engage and connect with professional and specialist passive candidates to communicate ADF career opportunities

• Collaborate with the wider Recruitment and Events Delivery and Sourcing and Attraction teams to identify opportunities to attract, source and engage candidates to maximise target achievement.

• Continuously analyse candidate pipeline data, ensuring qualified candidate pipeline is strong and meets requirements for current and future recruiting targets.

• Collaborate consistently and closely with Target Fulfilment and Enlistment teams to ensure the successful enlistment of candidates.

• Attend and contribute to weekly, monthly and quarterly enlistment delivery meetings, with data insights, progress reporting of delivery achievement and issue identification which may affect target or service delivery.

• Maintain a high standard of written and verbal communication skills to ensure clarity and understanding of message with all stakeholders.

• Work across multiple platforms simultaneously with high levels of productivity, accuracy and attention to detail.

• Work collaboratively with the national Specialist Recruitment team to share market knowledge, successes, challenges and deliver a consistent recruitment experience.

• Contribute to the collective success of the team through support of peers and accountability of own performance, whilst demonstrating a collaborative and resilient mindset.

• Work collaboratively as a member of ADF Careers to build a culture of inclusion, transparency, learning and collaboration.

• Develop, manage, and maintain a high service level client relationship through the provision of services that meet or exceed the expectations of Defence and the Adecco ADF Careers contract, further encouraging a strong and ongoing relationship between Adecco and the Commonwealth of Australia.

• Ensure exceptional candidate experience through all interactions across all aspects of the candidate experience journey.

What you will bring

If you have a strong background in professional recruitment, we want to hear from you.

Your background will demonstrate:

• Demonstrated recruitment experience in sourcing, attraction and engagement of specialist, professional, passive candidates, preferably across the medical industry

• Proven sourcing skills across multiple platforms

• Extensive experience in delivery to commercial targets and service deadlines with a focus on quality, stakeholder management and communication.

• Strong attention to detail with an ability to manage competing priorities and maintain quality service delivery when working under pressure.

• A collaborative approach to building professional relationships and working within a team to contribute to the team vision.

• Resilient and adaptable mindset, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and everchanging environment.

• Organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.

• Process driven with a customer service approach.

• Ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with multiple functions and stakeholders in a nationally dispersed environment.

To apply for this position, you must be an Australian citizen and have the ability to maintain an Australian AGSVA security clearance.

How to apply

If eligible, please submit your resume; applications are open to all qualified Australian citizens regardless of their background, identity, experiences and beliefs.

If you need assistance during our recruitment process, please email our friendly TA team at DFRHRTalentAcquisition@adecco.com.au for a confidential conversation.

To apply for this position, please submit your application online through our designated platform. The deadline for applications is 11:30 PM (AEST) on 23 August 2026. It's important to note that applications will be reviewed and processed as they are received.