Recruitment Partner

UKRI; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent research institution is seeking a Recruitment Partner to enhance recruitment processes and ensure a high-quality candidate experience. Key responsibilities include advising hiring managers, delivering candidate management activities, and overseeing onboarding. Essential criteria include strong administrative and organizational skills, experience in recruitment, and excellent communication abilities. This role offers flexible working options and a generous benefits package, ensuring work-life balance for all employees.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Defined benefit pension scheme

Employee discounts

Employee assistance programme

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience working in a recruitment or similar environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on recruitment solutions to hiring managers.
• Deliver candidate management activities.
• Oversee the new starter process for a seamless experience.

Skills

Strong Administrative Experience

Strong organisational skills

Experience in recruitment

Knowledge of recruitment best practices

Excellent communication skills

Ability to adapt to change

Ability to establish relationships

Job description

Description

Recruitment Partner

UK Research & Innovation

Salary : 30895 per annum

Band : UKRI Band C

Contract Type : Fixed Term (We are recruiting for two fixed-term positions : one with a duration of 12 months and one with a duration of 9 months)

Hours : Full-time / Part Time (Minimum 28.5 hours per week). We understand the importance of work-life balance and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants.

Location : Polaris House Swindon or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell (Hybrid working available)

Closing Date : 7th December 2025

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 17th December 2025

About the role

The role will provide advice and assistance on recruitment solutions to enable our hiring managers to carry out all recruitment activity while also ensuring a high-quality candidate experience.

Working within the UKRI HR team the main role of the Recruitment Partner is to provide recruitment support completing the transactional elements of the recruitment process and support to Hiring Managers and Senior Recruitment Partners to ultimately ensure UKRI are best placed to attract suitable candidates and ensuring a high-quality candidate experience.

Your responsibilities

• Provide advice and guidance on recruitment solutions to hiring managers including advertising interviews all forms of assessment and on-boarding
• Provide support and guidance to enable hiring managers to carry out all recruitment activity. This includes ensuring the necessary approvals are in place coaching hiring managers to input vacancies correctly onto the relevant System providing / uploading the relevant paperwork and forms for completion and overseeing progress of recruitment campaigns
• Deliver the full range of activities relating to candidate management including where appropriate working with our onboarding service provider UK SBS to ensure a seamless timely and professional experience for candidates
• Provide information and support to candidates from the point of application to on boarding acting as an ambassador for UKRI to present a positive and engaging impression
• Assist with / writing recruitment adverts
• Arrange interviews when required
• Oversee the new starter process to ensure successful candidates can take up employment quickly and seamlessly
• Administer the relevant talent pool. This includes reviewing CVs adding candidates keeping the database up to date through keeping in contact with candidates and liaising with relevant staff about candidates
• Working closely with HR colleagues to ensure they are kept up to date with progress on recruitment activity
• Providing updates on key accountabilities to allow for analysis for continuous improvement
• Adapt to new ways of working identified in overarching resourcing strategy to improve the UKRI offering working alongside our Talent Team
• Support corporate recruitment campaigns when required (e.g. senior hires graduates generic programmes and students)
• Assist and support with the administration and communication of the resourcing pool and secondments when required
• Support organise and attend occasional careers events as necessary to help raise the employer profile.

Contacts and Communication

• Work closely with all members of the UKRI HR Team
• Liaise regularly with the UK SBS onboarding colleagues where appropriate
• Provide recruitment advice and support to the hiring community
• Liaise with colleagues in other functional areas on process related matters
• Liaise with external bodies as required

Personal Specification

The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S) Interview (I) or both (S&I).

Essential

• Strong Administrative Experience. (S)
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritise work in a fast-paced environment. (S&I)
• Experience working in a recruitment or similar environment. (S&I)
• Knowledge of recruitment best practice and process stages such as writing / placing engaging recruitment adverts reviewing CVs and organising interviews. (I)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. (S&I)
• Able to adapt to change and demonstrate a continuous improvement approach. (I)
• Demonstrable ability to establish strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. (I)

Benefits

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
• Employee assistance programme providing confidential help and advice
• Flexible working options

Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

For further information on our benefits please see :

Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here :