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This is an exciting opportunity to join a professional HR team, evolving our service to provide continually improving outcomes for our customers.

The purpose of the role is to assist with the timely recruitment of people to posts, from both internal and external recruitment. The successful applicant will provide adept resourcing advice to our stakeholders and customers enabling Cefas to meet its science delivery targets and maintain its reputation.

This post sits within Cefas’ Resourcing team. We are a small, friendly, busy team with a varied workload, and as well as supporting and educating business colleagues in all things resourcing, we also support each other, and take the wellbeing of our team seriously. As well as providing a responsive and professional service, we also try to have fun, and encourage a team culture of openness, proactivity and approachability.

Cefas is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, backgrounds, ways of working and thinking, makes us a stronger organisation, better at reflecting the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

You will contribute to the successful and high quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment process from submitting the application to starting with Cefas.

The team manages high volumes of recruitment and works with both candidates and stakeholders across Cefas to deliver a customer focused, professional Resourcing service. In order to manage this appropriately, you will be using different Management Information and Applicant Tracking Systems to enable effective decision making and analysis of resource supply and service level agreements.

Responsibilities (not limited to):

• Contribute to the planning and delivery of high quality recruitment campaigns and other resourcing activity.
• Provide high quality advice to the business and to support on specified aspects of Resourcing.
• Coordination of information to/from business areas relating to recruitment activity and the end to end recruitment process.
• Being responsible for the onboarding recruitment activity and undertaking first day inductions.
• Promote best practice customer service and experience through continuous improvement activity using the tools and systems available.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of a range of Resourcing and HR initiatives and specific projects within agreed timescales and appropriate standards to support the delivery of Cefas business objectives.
• Coordinate and administer recruitment campaigns for apprentice, intern and student programmes, which will include supporting with the development and implementation of the programme (recruitment, onboarding, induction activities etc).
• Ensure pre-employment checks are completed for all new entrants.
• Handling sensitive and confidential information ensuring compliance with GDPR legislation.
• Regularly review recruitment process to ensure improvements are made where possible and that all forms/administration requirements are up to date.
• Administration of sickness absence; logging absences, monitoring return to work interviews and forms, following up on incomplete or missing data from employees and line managers.
• Supporting the wider HR team with business as usual and ad hoc activities and tasks.

We are looking for a resilient, focused and adaptable person who can demonstrate meeting the following essential criteria:

• Having previous experience working in a personnel, recruitment or human resources environment;
• Excellent IT skills including good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (not limited to but including Excel, PowerPoint Outlook and Word);
• Working well in a team and being a team player;
• Proven written and oral communication skills;
• Highly organised and efficient with your approach to addressing and solving problems;
• Experience of being able to prioritise and effectively balance a varied workload, whilst meeting deadlines and managing the demands from multiple stakeholders and customers;
• Able to deal with a degree of ambiguity but have the confidence to challenge processes and responses where appropriate;
• Willing to work towards and supported by Cefas in achieving a recognised qualification in Human Resources, for example CIPD Level 3 Foundation Certificate in People Practice.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

• Generous annual leave entitlement – Cefas offers 25 days' annual leave on entry (rising to 30 days over first 5yrs) for full-time new entrants to the Civil Service. Employees receive 8 public holidays a year, plus an additional day to mark the late Queen's birthday
• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Eligible to join the Civil Service Pension scheme – more information can be found on the CSP website http://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/
• Staff recognition vouchers
• In-year award scheme

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