People and Culture (HR) Assistant

The Wildlife Trusts; Newark on Trent; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nature charity in Newark on Trent is seeking a People and Culture (HR) Assistant to provide administrative support across training, recruitment, and onboarding. The ideal candidate will have experience in a fast-paced environment and excel at multitasking while maintaining confidentiality. The organization values diversity and encourages applications from underrepresented communities. This is a full-time position with a 12-month contract.

Qualifications

• Sound experience working as a People and Culture Assistant in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to manage last-minute requests while maintaining confidentiality.
• Proactive and efficient support in training, recruitment, and onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive administrative support across various HR functions.
• Support training and development, recruitment, and file management.
• Assist other areas of admin as required, upholding confidentiality.

Skills

Excellent administration

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Job description

People and Culture (HR) Assistant

The Wildlife Trusts
Newark, NG24 1WT
Contract
Full time: 35 hours per week
Contract: 12 month temporary contract
Closing date for applications: 7 December 2025
First interview: 15 December 2025
Second interview: 18 December 2025

About Us

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life, who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 944,000 members, over 38,000 volunteers, 3,600 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts, each of which is a place‑based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work. Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts. The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big, bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work, not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.

About You

If you are an excellent administrator looking to support the People and Culture and Learning and Development team in an exciting period of change at one of the UK's best‑loved nature charities, we have an opportunity for you.

You should have sound experience working as a People and Culture Assistant in a complex and fast‑moving environment. You are proactive, highly organised and efficient, able to set things in motion comfortably. You will play a key role in providing comprehensive administrative support across training and development, recruitment and selection, induction, onboarding and file management.

In this dynamic, fast‑paced environment you will demonstrate the ability to manage last‑minute requests, maintain exceptional attention to detail, multitask, and uphold strict confidentiality and discretion. A professional and composed demeanour is a must.

You will remain flexible by supporting other areas of admin when required, always upholding confidentiality and demonstrating a proactive attitude.

We value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we commit to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post and to make adjustments to our recruitment process if required.

RSWT take safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Applicants for applicable roles must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff through our Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.

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