Business Officer - Recruitment Team in Huntingdon

Join Our Team and Make a Differenc e! As a local government organisation, we pride ourselves on delivering a wide range of essential services to our community. Our recruitment team plays a crucial role in supporting our managers across these services. We\'re looking for passionate individuals who are dedicated to uplifting our communities and helping us achieve our vision of a greener, fairer, and more caring Cambridgeshire. If you\'re ready to make a positive impact, we want to hear from you Our team supports recruitment for services acrossthe whole council, and we have a new vacancy for a Business Officer to provide administrative support to our four busy Recruitment Advisors, who each look after different services. This role will be varied and support all four portfolios, with a greater emphasis on Children\'s services. We work on a hybrid basis, from home or at our purpose-built, state of the art offices in Alconbury Weald. We get togetheronce a month for collaborative working and when required (if you\'d prefer to work in the office more regularly, you\'re able to do so). Additional face-to-face time in the office will be provided to support with your induction, training and development. Although mainly working remotely,we are in frequent contact with each other and always available to talk to; we have a friendly,supportive working environment and encourage questions to learn and promote discussion. The structure of the team offers opportunities for progression, and this role gives you an insight into teams across the organisation. The council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and the Recruitment Team work to ensure that we promote and develop fair, unbiased recruitment practices. For more information about the role, please contact Samantha Holland-Morris (Recruitment Team Leader) at samantha.holland-morris@cambridgeshire.gov.uk, or Jenny Hancock (Recruitment Team manager) at Jenny.Hancock@cambridgeshire.gov.uk,and we will be happy to arrange a call at a convenient time to answer your questions and give you some detail about the role. Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, during the week commencing 9 th June. Our benefits We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing , both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings Access to development opportunities , apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more. What will you be doing? Your daily administrative tasks supporting the recruitment team will include requesting and processing pre-employment checks, liaising with applicants and hiring managers, and providing data as requested. We\'ll need you to help with incoming queries and requests for support, so an ability to be flexible and a keenness to provide a good service is essential. You\'ll be working across multiple live, shared documents to manage our recruitment authorisation and tracking processes, so maintaining data integrity is crucial. We have a weekly team meeting and an active MS Teams chat so we\'re always in touch and available to support each other. Please see the attached Job Description/Person Specification for the full list of role responsibilities and requirements. About you You should have experience in a business support environment, with an understanding of GDPR and Data Protection. Youneed to have some customer care experience and a desire to provide a high-quality service to our stakeholders. You must be proficient with IT,including MS Word, Excel, and Outlook, and understand social media channels and their impact. We provide training and support for our team system and the council provides excellent IT training tosupport and develop your skills. We often need to update our processes in response to new government guidelines, regulations or policy changes, so you must have a positive approach to change. Driving the recruitment process forward is a key part of our role, so you need excellent interpersonal and communication skills. This is a busy role, so you\'ll need strong organisational and administrative skills, an eye for accuracy, and a resilient attitude to handle multiple tasks, people and deadlines. If you have relevant transferable skills, please do apply as we will always take this into account when shortlisting. About us Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you don\'t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don\'t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network \'IDEAL\' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch. Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers #J-18808-Ljbffr