Talent Acquisition & People Team Assistant

News Corp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

London office access

Job summary

HarperCollins in London is seeking a Recruitment and People Team Assistant on an eight-month fixed-term contract. You will provide proactive administrative and coordination support across the People Team, ensuring a smooth candidate and colleague experience by keeping processes running efficiently and accurately.

This role blends strong organisational skills with creativity, helping attract top talent, enhance internal processes, and leverage digital tools to drive efficiency and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in an administrative, coordination, or support role.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support across the People & Talent team, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and efficiently.
• Coordinate the end-to-end recruitment process, including scheduling interviews, managing candidate communications, screening applications, and supporting hiring managers with shortlists.
• Act as the first point of contact for candidate enquiries, providing a professional and responsive candidate experience.
• Coordinate onboarding activities, including preparing new starter communications and letters, arranging inductions, and supporting a seamless onboarding experience.
• Maintain accurate recruitment and people-related records, including the recruitment tracker and reporting.
• Update and maintain People & Culture content on intranet, ensuring information remains accurate and engaging.
• Create and manage candidate attraction content for the HarperCollins LinkedIn page and other digital channels.
• Upload and maintain training content on the internal learning management system and collate feedback to support continuous improvement of learning initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and contribute ideas that enhance the candidate and employee experience.
• Support ad hoc People admin tasks, projects and initiatives, including diversity and inclusion activities and engagement with schools and universities.

Skills

Administrative experience

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Proactive / initiative

Team player

Recruitment interest

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

HarperCollins in London is seeking a Recruitment and People Team Assistant on an eight-month fixed-term contract. You will provide proactive administrative and coordination support across the People Team, ensuring a smooth candidate and colleague experience by keeping processes running efficiently and accurately.

This role blends strong organisational skills with creativity, helping attract top talent, enhance internal processes, and leverage digital tools to drive efficiency and innovation.