Candidate Engagement Coordinator

Group GTI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in London is seeking a Candidate Engagement Coordinator to enhance candidate experiences during the recruitment process. This role involves organizing assessment centres, managing candidate feedback, and participating in recruitment events. The ideal candidate should have strong organizational skills, excellent communication abilities, and a customer-focused mindset. This position offers a fixed term, hybrid working model with a 37.5-hour workweek.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment or candidate engagement.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure exceptional candidate experience throughout the selection process.
• Plan and run assessment centres and manage logistics.
• Provide timely feedback to candidates post-assessment.

Skills

Excellent organisational skills

Highly developed communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Customer focused mindset

Microsoft Office experience

Job description

Candidate Engagement Coordinator

Department: Recruiting Solutions

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: London, UK - Hybrid

Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly organised Coordinator, with a passion for a career within recruitment to join the GTI team, working with one of our key clients, Sky. This role will be focussed on Technology, Cyber and Software Graduate & Intern programmes. This role is hybrid based with weekly on-site client presence. This is a fixed term role to support with the attraction, recruitment, and delivery of our client’s graduate and internship portfolio and on programme responsibilities across Early Careers.

Working alongside the Recruitment Business Partners, this role will focus on supporting the development and delivery of an exceptional selection, onboarding and in life programme experience for our Technology, Cyber and Software Graduates and Interns. You’ll have a candidate focus and an innovative mindset; seeing and recommending improvements to ensure the best candidate experience. You’ll perform well under pressure, juggling multiple activities and deadlines.

This is a great opportunity to work closely with subject matter experts within Early Careers recruitment and programme management across a wide range of areas, as well as starting your development towards becoming a Recruitment Business Partner in the future within this field.

You will also work closely with the wider GTI team, to support business wide projects and best practice sharing.

Outcomes

• A high level of candidate experience is successfully delivered throughout the selection process.

• Ensure SLA timeframes are met when responding to queries in the Early careers mailbox.
• Plan and run assessment centres and all logistics involved (room bookings, timetable management, pre-event invites and communications).
• Provide timely and insightful feedback to attendee’s post assessment centre and manage pipelines efficiently in GTI’s bespoke ATS.
• Candidates are keep engaged throughout the process with our in depth keep warm activity

Accuracy is always ensured in matters of governance and compliance.

• Follow all internal processes accurately and in accordance with relevant legislation, supporting candidates with extenuating circumstances and reasonable adjustments (liaising directly with applicants to understand needs).
• Follow the prevailing visa and eligibility requirements, receive and record new hire eligibility documents.
• Provide accurate information during the offer and onboarding process (raising contracts, monitoring acceptances and declines, supporting onboarding team needs).

Internal stakeholders are fully supported.

• Ensure the Graduate and Intern Manager and Recruitment Business Partners are kept informed and updated to deliver selection and programme needs for the Sky account.
• Participate in working groups to support process improvements.

Continually build on knowledge and experience of the Early Careers space

• Participate in recruitment events, careers fairs, and internal activity such as welcome events throughout the year.
• Build own knowledge of the Early Careers landscape, industry research and trends.
• Share insights with the wider Sky recruitment team.

Person Specification

• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Highly developed communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work at pace and under pressure.
• High-energy and articulate with a customer focused mindset.
• Microsoft office experience: excel, plus proficient user of PowerPoint and Word
• Results-oriented, motivated, enthusiastic, and resilient
• Strong team player that loves to bring new ideas to the table.
• Flexible working style

Other Information

• Fixed term contract (Maternity Cover) – 37.5 hours per week between Monday to Friday 9.00 – 5.30pm
• 3-month probationary period

Candidates applying for roles at GTI will be subject to background screening. You can find out more about our background screening and the recruitment of ex-offenders by reading our policies.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team to find out more information about this vacancy or you have any questions, please get in touch - [e-mail].