We are looking for a full time Resourcing Officer to join a central people team in Swindon until May 25.

Based: Swindon

Fixed Term Contract until May 2025

37 hours per week

£24,500 – £27,000 PA Pro Rata

What will I be doing?

This is a full 360 recruitment role within the education sector. You will be working with hiring managers directly to provide their resourcing services.

From development of job descriptions with hiring managers and People Services Advisors (PSA), writing and placing adverts, building preferred supplier lists via agencies, shortlisting, interviewing, managing the offer and completing associated administrative tasks for pre-employment, onboarding and induction in line with Safer Recruitment.

• Support the PSAs in the recruitment campaigns of all academic teaching, operational and support positions

• Write and manage vacancy advertisements and respond to communications from candidates, accordingly

• Ensure the careers website provides accurate information on all vacancies and that relevant documents on the career’s webpage are up to date by liaising with the Digital Media & Marketing Lead

• Track applications, prepare shortlisting and interview packs and invite candidates for interview in a timely manner including manage stakeholder availability to schedule interview times accordingly

• Post to social media platforms, promoting vacancies

• Coordinate references for candidates and make follow up calls to referees as required

What do I need:

Be highly organised with excellent administrative skills and able to work harmoniously, efficiently and often under pressure

• Have the ability to prioritise and work accurately with attention to detail

• Have excellent communication skills, particularly in the drafting of correspondence, formal legal contracts and letters and responding to queries

• Be highly proficient in Word, Outlook, and Excel and ideally have experience of using databases

• Be able to build effective working relationships and work well as part of a busy Central Services Team

• Good research skills to improve service and candidate attraction

• Be flexible, with a ‘can-do’ approach and the ability to work independently, keeping calm under pressure

• Full, clean driving