Job title Recruitment Coordinator
Department Human Resources
Salary Starting from £26,038, rising to £29,659
Grade Grade 5
Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term
Placed on Monday 03 February 2025
Closing date Monday 17 February 2025
Interview date Thursday 27 February 2025
Reference CC12353R
Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)
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Do you love interacting with others, achieving great outcomes through providing an efficient and effective service?
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your HR career - we'll provide you with the support and training to be successful both now and in the future. This is a great time to join us as we redefine our recruitment strategy to improve alignment with university needs and goals and has arisen due staff developing and progressing into new roles within the team.
Joining our friendly collaborative team you'll enjoy an engaging induction, supportive daily catch-ups and virtual interaction through MS Teams chat. We can also offer you a stimulating environment, with access to excellent staff benefits and facilities on our campus. We operate a hybrid working model enabling you to work flexibly from home and in the office.
About the roleThis is a busy, varied role and one that would suit someone that enjoys a stimulating work environment, access to excellent staff benefits and facilities, and having the opportunity to develop or start your career within HR.
In this role you will provide first line support to managers recruiting for both academic and non-academic roles and will have ownership of the full recruitment lifecycle. With full training and support provided you will soon become proficient at each step, from advising and guiding stakeholders in the initial vacancy creation to advertising; contract creation and new starter onboarding communications.
You'll provide email and phone-based support on a whole range of queries from setting up new vacancies, visa requirements, advertising options, setting up interviews, contracts and right to work checks. Using our Recruitment ATS (Stonefish) and Payroll system (iTrent) along with MS Office you will coordinate and administer the whole recruitment process to deliver an outstanding experience for managers and candidates.
To be successful in this role you will enjoy focussing on the detail whilst being adept at multi-tasking and unfazed by the demands of multiple stakeholders. You may have experience within a busy HR Recruitment team but crucially you will need the drive to develop your HR Recruitment skills. Other key things we will be looking for are:
You will be interested in developing and maintaining an understanding of HR/Recruitment best practice and applying it to ensure HR processes are carried out effectively and with a high level of attention to detail.
Experience writing content for websites, job adverts, profiles would be advantageous, but not essential.
Further informationThis role is fixed-term with an expected duration of 18 months, to cover a secondment.
For an informal discussion about the position please contact Kate Harper, Talent Acquisition Manager ([email protected]), however, please submit your application via the University website.
This position is full-time (36.5 hours) per week, but we're flexible and open to discussing job-sharing arrangements to ensure continuous full-time coverage. If you're interested in this role on a job-share basis, please indicate so on your application form. Additionally, feel free to discuss your preferences during the interview. We value flexibility and are open to exploring potential opportunities with you.
What we can offer you:Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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