People (HR) Assistant

Rocket Lab; East Hagbourne; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading space solutions company as a People (HR) Assistant, contributing to a positive employee experience. You'll coordinate events and manage HR operations, ensuring compliance and organisation within a dynamic team. This role offers opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Comfortable working in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Laser sharp attention to detail for administrative tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support onboarding and coordinate university events.
• Manage employee records and keep the HRIS up to date.
• Assist with compliance and updates to company policies.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Proactive attitude

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

GSuite

Job description

People · Harwell, UK · Hybrid

People (HR) Assistant

Working for Open Cosmos

Aim high, go beyond! At Open Cosmos we are solving the world’s biggest challenges from space, providing businesses, governments and researchers access to more readily available information than ever before - ready for the challenge? Then read on…

Working in the People Team

Do you have a passion for HR and a head for the stars? Are you ready to blast off on a mission to support our incredible team of Open Cosmonauts?

The People team is at the heart of making sure all of our Open Cosmonauts have a fantastic employee experience and that Open Cosmos remains a Great Place to Work! We provide support to the business through the whole employee life cycle focusing on keeping the OC team highly engaged and attracting high calibre people to our open roles.

What will you be doing?

You'll be a key member of our People Team ground crew. This is a very active role where no 2 days are the same! One day you could be coordinating university events, the next day supporting onboarding to give our new Open Cosmonauts the best lift off to their career at OC!

Alongside this, you will be keeping our admin in order, managing employee records, keeping the HRIS up to date, supporting compliance and updates to company policies.

You will have lots of opportunity to learn and progress keeping your career mission on track for success!

What you need to be successful:

• You’ll need to be comfortable working in word, excel and powerpoint - even better if you’re familiar with GSuite.

• You’ll have strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks with ease.

• You’ll have a laser sharp eye for detail to support admin and compliance tasks

• You’ll have great communication skills - both written and verbal.

• You’ll be working independently and collaborating as part of a great team.

• You’ll have a positive and proactive attitude - bringing your can-do spirit to every mission!

If this sounds like the mission you would like to take on next! Apply now!

Department

People

Role

People Operations Assistant

Locations

Harwell, UK

Remote status

Hybrid

About Open Cosmos

Open Cosmos is dedicated to solving customer problems with insights from space. Whether this is monitoring agricultural yields, assessing the damage of oil spills or providing navigation solutions, we believe that data from satellites is the most effective and sustainable way of achieving this.

People · Harwell, UK · Hybrid

People (HR) Assistant

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