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The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

People Services is committed to providing The Open University with high-quality people solutions and is valued for its efficiency, expertise, partnering capability and service. The Resourcing team within the People Services Hub is a centralised recruitment function responsible for providing a high-quality end to end recruitment and onboarding service for the University, managing a wide range of vacancies including academic roles, administration roles, finance and business services roles and estates roles within the Walton Hall campus at Milton Keynes and across the nation offices in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Resourcing Assistant based at the Milton Keynes campus. The purpose of this role will be to support key elements of the recruitment processes and will include a wide range of tasks.

These tasks will involve , handling and supporting applications for candidates, answering and triaging queries, arranging and supporting selection and assessment activities, responding to complex recruitment queries, issuing contracts and completing pre-employment checks, and liaising with hiring managers and stakeholders throughout this process. You will also collaborate with our Nation based offices to support their recruitment campaigns.

Although this role is aligned to our Milton Keynes office, we are flexible on location across the UK, but will require occasional attendance onsite at either our Belfast, Milton Keynes or Manchester offices.

Skills and experience

You will be highly motivated, positive and a good administrator with excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills. Strong I.T and organisational capabilities in addition to using initiative to prioritise work and meet deadlines are also a requirement.

You will understand the need for, and maintain, confidentiality and sensitivity always as well as having the ability to exercise initiative and sound judgement to take ownership of tasks seeing them through to completion.

More information can be provided via a link to the Job Description.

If you would like to discuss the application or recruitment process before making an application, please contact Paula Haycock at Resourcing Hub on 01908 655544 or [email protected] quoting the reference VRF 21104

What you get in return

We have a strong commitment to providing training and development in and beyond your current role. This includes thorough induction into the organisation and regular reviews of your training and development needs.

We also offer a great range of benefits that support our employees and their families for the long term. Staff Benefits include an attractive pension proposition and 30 days holiday per annum pro rata, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days.

How to apply

Unless otherwise stated in the advert, all applications are completed online via the instructions on The OU Job’s page. Applications submitted via 3rd party websites will not be received.

Access details for disabled applicants are available from the Resourcing Hub, telephone: 01908 655544, quoting the vacancy reference above.

To apply for this role please submit the following as one document;

• CV
• Personal statement, up to 1,000 words, you should set out in your statement why you’re interested in this role and provide examples of where your skills and experience meet the required competencies for this role as detailed in the job and person specification.

Please save your document with the following file name as appropriate to the vacancy you are applying for: reference, surname, forename.

You will need to have your documents ready ahead of submitting the electronic application. Please click on the APPLY NOW button below to be redirected to our application page.

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You can view your application communications on the Candidate portal.

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