People Coordinator

St Giles Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in Greater London is seeking an experienced HR Administrator to support recruitment and onboarding processes. The ideal candidate should have a background in administrative functions and HR administration, with strong problem-solving and communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including flexible working and a mentoring programme.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous leave allowance

Staff pension

Flexible working

Employee perks programme

Life insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in an administrative or secretarial function.
• Sound experience of HR administration.
• Ability to manage and update HR databases.

Responsibilities

• Provide support with recruitment administration and activities.
• Manage onboarding processes and ensure compliance.
• Record statistical information for recruitment campaigns.

Skills

Problem-solving

Customer focus

Initiative

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Job description

Are you a proactive, collaborative and highly efficient individual with previous experience of working in an administrative or secretarial function, including preparing standard letters, documents, maintaining effective office systems, data input and filing? Do you have sound experience of HR administration and of using computerised HR applications and systems?

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

Our successful candidate will provide key support to the People Business Partnering team with all recruitment administration and activities, including advertising, shortlisting assessment, and interviewing to ensure that candidates receive a professional and high-quality service. You will record equality and diversity and statistical information, including for each recruitment campaign and producing the required reports on a regular basis, while also managing the onboarding process, ensuring that all pre-employment checks are completed promptly and comply with safer recruitment procedures. Will we also rely on you to ensuing a smooth transition from recruitment, through onboarding, to the start of induction, and to monitor the People mailboxes as required responding to all initial queries, escalating as necessary to another member of the team. Ensuring that all new employee procedures are correctly administered, and that DBS renewals are managed and maintained in line with St Giles's policy are also key elements of the role, as is undertaking all records management and promptly updating the HR database with payroll and pension data.

What we are looking for

• A solution-focused approach to providing resolving problems and issues, Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.
• The ability to work accurately with a strong customer focus
• The ability to work on own initiative in a structured way and use available resources to ensure tasks are completed to deadlines
• Strong interpersonal, prioritisation and communication skills, verbal and written
• A professional, empathetic and flexible approach to your work

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi-heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation. St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

We will be reviewing applications as they are received, and reserve the right to close this advert early if a suitable candidate is appointed. We therefore strongly encourage early applications to avoid any disappointment.