Talent Acquisition Coordinator

We're looking for a highly organised and proactive Talent Acquisition Coordinator to join our Talent Acquisition team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of an efficient, high-quality recruitment service across our Society.

Working as part of a busy and collaborative team, you'll provide coordination and administrative support across the recruitment lifecycle, helping vacancies progress smoothly from attraction through to onboarding. You'll manage a high volume of activity, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining excellent attention to detail and delivering a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring managers.

You'll coordinate interviews and assessments, manage candidate communications, maintain recruitment records within our Applicant Tracking System (ATS), support offer and onboarding activity, and ensure recruitment processes are completed accurately and efficiently. You'll also coordinate pre-employment screening and background checks, monitoring progress and working closely with candidates and stakeholders to ensure all regulatory and organisational requirements are met.

You will support the Talent Acquisition Specialist with entry-level and volume recruitment activity. This will include application screening, CV sifting, arranging and conducting initial telephone screening interviews, and supporting the creation of candidate shortlists. You'll play an important role in helping the team identify suitable talent while ensuring candidates receive a positive experience throughout the recruitment process.

This role would suit someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys working with people and processes, and takes pride in delivering an organised and efficient recruitment service.

You'll be an organised, adaptable and customer-focused individual with a passion for delivering excellent service and keeping processes running smoothly. You enjoy working at pace, managing multiple priorities and building strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Ideally, you'll have experience in recruitment coordination, recruitment administration, HR support or a similar role where you've managed high volumes of activity and maintained accurate records. Experience supporting recruitment activities such as interview scheduling, onboarding administration, CV screening, telephone interviewing or volume recruitment campaigns would be particularly beneficial.

You'll be a confident communicator, comfortable engaging with candidates and stakeholders through a variety of channels, including telephone, email and virtual platforms. You'll understand the importance of delivering a positive candidate experience and take pride in providing timely, professional and engaging communication throughout the recruitment process.

You'll be comfortable using recruitment systems and technology, with the confidence to learn new tools and processes quickly. You'll have strong attention to detail and be confident managing recruitment data, maintaining accurate records and producing reports to support hiring activity and decision-making. Strong Excel skills and experience working with recruitment data and metrics would be advantageous.

Experience coordinating background checks, pre-employment screening or compliance-related activities would be beneficial. Previous experience using Workday Recruiter and other recruitment technologies would be highly desirable, alongside confidence using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

Most importantly, you'll bring a proactive approach, a commitment to continuous improvement and a desire to support the wider Talent Acquisition team in delivering a high-quality recruitment service.

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:

• Financial: Corporate bonus scheme (on target 5%, up to a maximum 10%), Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution), Annual performance related pay reviews, Colleague mortgage scheme, Electric car salary sacrifice scheme, Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection, Access to our financial advisers, Access to a range of high street and online discounts.
• Work/Life Balance: A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions, 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (rises to 30 with length of service), The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday, Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based), Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood.
• Health and Wellbeing: Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme, Access to an employee assistance programme, Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gyms, Two paid volunteering days each year, Cycle to work scheme.

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you.

People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here. It’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.