Recruitment Administrator

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Are you looking to start a career in Recruitment? Would you like spend your working day in a fast-paced environment, by offering guidance and support to applicants during their recruitment journey? Then this could be just the opportunity for you!

Working within a lively team that offers you support, inspiration and encouragement to enable you to provide the best experience to new and existing officers within the Metropolitan Police Service. You will be responsible for defined core administrative, operational and/or technical activities, providing a range of straightforward, routine services. This may involve responding to routine queries, issues or circumstances, and referring any unusual or non-routine situations others. You will need to be a confident communicator and be able to pick up the phone and speak to a wide range of candidates.

If you are an outstanding and highly motivated individual with passion and desire to contribute to the positive reputation of our business, we would love to hear from you!

This exciting role is a 12 month Fixed term contract with hybrid work pattern, working three days from home and two days from our Newport office located inNP10. With our Flexible 3% bonus fund which can be taken as an extra cash equivalent of up to£615.

What You Will Be Doing

• Sifting applications and moving the candidates seamlessly through the recruitment process, including online assessments, health checks, training camps, vetting and offers.
• Process work in line with agreed procedures, business rules or scripts will include making calls, answering telephone, emails, queries, taking messages or processing transactions.
• Resolve and offer solutions to all queries taken via phone or email. Raise where needed to the relevant person for a speedy resolution (i.e. a team leader/manager/other group).
• Utilise the applicant tracking system fully to log all correspondence and progress to next stage to avoid any delays.
• To schedule and prioritise allocated work every day.
• Maintain and update information held on a data base or manually.
• Support line management on any additional admin when required.
• Maintain accurate records for audit purposes.
• Ensure targets and deadlines are met.
  

What Youll Bring

• High level of attention to detail and the thinking creatively.
• Eloquent and confident communicator who can maintain good relationships with colleagues and applicants.
• Exude passion and establish a relationship with the applicant to help boost their confidence to proceed with their application.
• Can demonstrate experience of delivering administrative support in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective team player, who constantly displays commitment and flexibility.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office packages and have the ability to navigate around and understand use of in-house systems.
• If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what were looking for, please do apply, wed love to hear from you!
  

Contract Type:FTC 12 Months

Location:Newport

Security Clearance Level:NPPV1 and SC

Internal Recruiter:Rachel

Salary:£21,115 per annum (inclusive of 3% flex fund)

Benefits:25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance (4 x death in service), pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.You can choose to take this as cash or put it towards flexible benefit options

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support many ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if youre interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

If you loved reading about this job please see more details of our company below:

The company was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria Ltd, in 2013 as part of the Governments Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence: Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York.

As a trading name of Shared Services Connected Ltd, SSCL has established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across government and public sector.

Our clients include a number of government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board.