Recruitment Specialist - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Wellcome Sanger Institute

Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

A new opportunity has arisen for a
Recruitment Specialist to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract, to cover maternity leave.

About the role:

You will be responsible for delivering end-to-end recruitment across some of our Scientific Programmes by:

Managing the full lifecycle of vacancies within our Scientific Programmes
Providing expert advice and maintain best practice that enable manager's to make good hiring decisions.
Maximise opportunities to promote the organisation and its vacancies through a variety of channels and in line with the Recruitment Job Advertising Strategy and by working closely with the Recruitment & Marketing Manager.
Be a recruitment ambassador for our HR System, Workday.

In addition, you will:

Maintain an awareness of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment and ensure our recruitment campaigns, and advice to hiring manager's support our EDI strategy.
Work with the Visa and Immigration Lead to ensure appropriate visa, immigration and new starter administrative data is correctly recorded and maintained to ensure the relevant audit trails are in place for the Institute's international staff.
Aside from filling vacancies, there will be an opportunity for involvement in projects that support our future Talent Acquisition Strategy.

Essential Skills:

Proven experience of managing the endtoend recruitment process in a busy HR environment
Knowledge of legal requirements in relation to recruitment (GDPR and discrimination legislation)
Proven experience of developing job descriptions and advert copy
Proven experience of developing selection processes including competency based interview design
Experience of using eRecruitment systems
Excellent working knowledge of social media and proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office
Understanding of equality and gender issues in recruitment

Key competency b

ehavioural
skills:

Demonstrable ability to influence and persuade others to take appropriate actions
Outstanding customer service and interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain composure in a fastpaced, highenergy, demanding environment
Team player with ability to effectively prioritise, multitask and work independently
Experience working with confidential information
Demonstrates an approachable attitude and a willingness to share information and work collaboratively
Ability to build working relationships with stakeholders at all levels
Ability to manage competing priorities and to manage the expectations of others

About our team:

You will be part of the Recruitment & Immigration team, which supports all aspects of the recruitment for the Institute, working to recruit the best and diverse talent who will contribute to the success of the organisation.

As a large percentage of our employees are international workers, we also have immigration expertise to lead the visa and immigration activity.

The Recruitment & Immigration Team sit within the Human Resources Team who are made up of expert functions and include, EDI, Learning & Engagement, HR Services & Systems and the HR Partnering Team.

Other Information:

Salary in the region of £41,000 to £45,000
We work in a flexiblehybrid working team where a minimum of 2 days in the office are required.
Closing date: 3rd September
Interviews expected to take place 8th, 11th & 12th September

Working at Wellcome Sanger:

Our flexible-hybrid working environment is designed to support a healthy work-life balance.

This means you can work flexibly with a combination of working from home, and working from our Campus to allow you to focus on being productive and part of the team while enjoying the benefits of working flexibly.

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world.

We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness.

The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute.

We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

Our Benefits:

We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme.

The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.