Recruitment/HR Co-ordinator in Stevenage

We are currently recruiting for a Recruitment/HR Coordinator to support our aerospace sector client's Early Careers programme, based in Stevenage. This role will be working in a fast-paced environment and will require the post holder to undertake a variety of duties from recruitment to offering general HR advice/guidance to candidates. This role will operate on a hybrid working pattern as well as some UK travel on a quarterly basis.

Duties

• You will have a brilliant opportunity to play a key role in supporting our client's UK Early Careers Programme (ECP) recruitment strategy in line with the overall business requirements. This will include:
• Advertising job requisitions
• Supporting HR advisors in the role review and supporting hiring managers and Early Careers Recruitment internal with uploading requisitions onto internal recruitment/HR platform (Workday)
• Assessment Centre (AC) Support (assessment centres take place between November through to April)
• Create outlook invites for each assessment centre and cascade to the relevant hiring teams/departments.
• Liaise with departments to ensure Technical Questions are updated and ready for use for their respective assessment centres.
• Liaise with department leads and ensure sufficient assessor support for each department's Assessment Centres.
• Create Assessment Centres timetable within AC platform (for both AC training sessions & official ACs)
• Run Workday/OneHR reports to support candidates moving through the application process. Make calls/emails to action what is required.
• Invite selected candidates through Workday/OneHR and the AC platform.
• Ensure candidates with reasonable adjustments have had their timetables adjusted and are aware of the adjustments in place via a phone call/email.
• Respond and support Candidate queries and questions.
• Track and monitor each assessment day you are responsible for coordinating including invited candidates/Assessor & ECP support/outstanding actions.
• Use and update Assessment plan/action spreadsheet.
• Chase candidates via a phone call, where no response has been received.
• Chase and ensure all assessors have accepted invites and are trained (Both Outlook & AC platform).
• Remove withdrawn candidates & invite reserve replacements (both on OneHR and AC platform).
• Update departments where candidate changes have been made.
• Arrange one-off interviews for departments where required.
• Support candidates/assessors with technical issues.
• Support Early Careers Recruitment team with issues/queries throughout AC.
• Lead a candidate group's welcome & icebreaker session.
• Lead a candidate group's Team Meeting - record & upload to internal transfer file for assessors.
• Set up recruiter & assessor Skype chat – sharing updates/reminders throughout the assessment day.
• Post Assessment Centres & onboarding support.
• Rebook absent candidates onto the next available AC day (where required).
• Respond to candidate queries, calling candidates where possible.
• Completing UG Health & Safety forms for placement approval by University.
• Distribute and collate candidate onboarding survey responses.
• Coordinate Pre-Join events (all sites) including venue booking & support and distribute candidate communications & joining instructions.
• Liaise with the departments to organise site/department tours, parking, PIT passes, Technical coordinator (TC) meeting, IT collection etc (Act as support not lead).

Skillset/experience required:

• Our client requires someone who has the drive and dedication to succeed coupled with an enthusiasm for early careers recruitment and do whatever is required.
• Previous experience and understanding of recruitment within a busy recruitment/HR function would be preferred although not essential.
• Ability to work at pace, under pressure and across all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent organisation and planning skills.
• Ability to multi-task with a range of relatively complex support activities.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision and manage and create own workload.
• Numerate with strong problem solving, analytical and reporting skills.
• Patience and courtesy to provide an initial contact point for HR queries (Early Careers).
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Monitor and prioritise workflow to achieve deadlines.
• Be a self-starter and motivated to execute this role to an excellent standard.
• To have a proactive approach and flexibility to support team and colleagues where needed.
• Excellent PC skills – MS Office, SAP, Recruitment systems experience desirable.