Senior HR Assistant

4Recruitment Services; Coventry; On-site; GBP 16,843 - 23,988; Part time

Job summary

Our Coventry-based local authority client is urgently seeking an experienced Senior HR Assistant to join the HR Resourcing and Transactions team.

The role supports recruitment activities, including creating jobs, organising interviews, posting adverts, recording interview feedback, and providing excellent administrative support. The position requires strong MS Office skills and a proactive, confidential approach.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience of general office practice ideally within a HR team
• Ability to prioritise conflicting tasks and manage a challenging workload to high quality standards and timescales
• Proactive approach and willingness to identify solutions and drive actions to completion
• Adapt to the strategic direction and changing priorities across the HR Resourcing and Transactions team
• Ability to work with limited direction and supervision
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proficiency with MS Office including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Experience with HR platforms and attention to detail
• Excellent customer service and client care skills
• Able to build relationships across internal and external stakeholders
• Previous recruitment or HR experience is essential

Responsibilities

• Assist in creating jobs for recruitment campaigns
• Organise interviews and coordinate scheduling
• Post adverts on job boards and track responses
• Record and relay interview feedback to the recruitment team
• Support other recruitment activities as required

Job description

Our local authority client based in Coventry are urgently seeking an experienced Senior HR Assistant.

£14.82 an hour PAYE

1 day a week in the office

Senior HR Assistant

Working alongside our recruitment team assisting in creating jobs, organising interviews, posting adverts on job boards, recording interview feedback and other recruitment activities.

• Knowledge and experience of general office practice ideally within a HR team Ability to prioritise conflicting tasks and manage a challenging workload to high quality standards and timescales
• Can demonstrate the ability to take a proactive approach and willingness to identify solutions and drive actions to completion.
• Ability to adapt to the strategic direction of the organisation and changing priorities across the HR Resourcing and Transactions team.
• Ability to work with limited direction and supervision
• Ability to remain calm, confident and professional.
• Self-motivated and committed to achieving goals
• Ability to use a wide range of Microsoft Office packages particularly in the areas of Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Strong experience working with a range of HR platforms Detailed conscious with a keen attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with confidence to deliver at management meetings.
• Ability to, analyse, interpret, explain and summarise complex data and issues in a logical manner and formulate and present solutions to identified issues.
• Excellent customer service and client care skills.
• Ability to deal tactfully and sensitively with people and have an understanding of confidentiality issues.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to work collaborative within a team, supporting wider team workloads where required.
• Takes ownership for own performance and contribution.
• Able to build relationships and credibility with a wide range of people internally and externally.
• Ambassador for HR and the team and live the Cafcass values and behaviours
• Previous experience working within Recruitment or HR essential