Diamond Light Source Ltd.
Location
Oxfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Business Area
Professional/Support
Full Time Salary
£29,778 to £31,679 per annum
Post Type
Full time / Fixed term
Term
18 months
Provisional Interview Dates
TBC
Closing Date
10/03/2024
Ref No
11324
Documents
Harwell, Oxfordshire – primarily onsite, some home working available
18 Months Fixed Term
About Us
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron; a huge scientific facility that works like a giant microscope, producing beams of light 10 billion times brighter than the sun which our scientists use to study anything from fossils to jet engines to viruses and vaccines.
About the Role
We now have an excellent opportunity for a skilled Recruitment Coordinator to join our HR team on an initial 18 month fixed term basis.
This role will have a direct impact on Diamond’s ongoing performance and development, including for our multi-million-pound Diamond-II upgrade project, by helping to ensure we are best placed to attract talented staff within Science, Engineering, IT and a range of other disciplines.
The Recruitment Coordinator will be responsible for making a tangible difference to hiring manager’s recruitment experience by providing high-quality support and advice on the full recruitment life cycle, including assisting with advertising, planning candidate attraction strategies, arranging interviews and overseeing the progress of recruitment campaigns.
You will also work to make Diamond as attractive as possible to candidates both on a vacancy-by-vacancy basis, and through assisting in employee brand and process development initiatives.
Further responsibilities will include:
About You
Above anything else, this role requires somebody that is highly organised, proactive, self-confident and with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
You should have experience from a UK recruitment environment, including providing recruitment advice and support, implementing effective candidate attraction strategies, writing engaging adverts, reviewing CVs and arranging interviews.
You will demonstrate knowledge of recruitment best practice including understanding candidate attraction techniques, along with broad knowledge of the legal context that impacts UK recruitment.
You will have a good academic background, particularly in English, while REC or CIPD qualifications are desirable.
Benefits
Diamond offers an exceptional benefits package to support staff in achieving a positive work/life balance. This includes 26 days annual leave plus Christmas closure, public holidays, 2 annual volunteering days and flexible working hours. We also offer an excellent defined benefit pension scheme. Staff also have access to a range of amenities on site including a nursery, cafes, a restaurant and sports and leisure facilities.
To Apply
Please use the online application process to apply and tell us why you believe you are suitable for this role. Applicants that fail to suitably address this won't be considered.
The closing date for applicants is 10th March 2024.
Diamond is open to different ways of working and we are committed to supporting our employees to have more flexibility and autonomy over where, when and how long they work.
Where relevant, and possible for the role, we will consider flexible working arrangements, secondment and job share opportunities.
Diamond attract talented individuals from around the world and currently employ 44 different nationalities. Reflecting trends in our sector we employ more men than women (77% men and 23% women as at March 2021). Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from suitably qualified women.
If you are disabled and would like to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, please let us know via the online application process.
Diamond are members of Working Families (the UK’s work-life balance organisation), we have also achieved the Athena SWAN Bronze award and Disability Confident Level Two.
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Salary
£29.78k - £31.68k per annum
