Recruitment Coordinator - 9 month FTC

About the role

Join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience across our permanent, fixed term and temporary workforce. If you're highly organised, people-focused, and thrive in managing multiple conflicting priorities, this is your opportunity to make a real impact across recruitment at UKAEA. Working closely with Talent Acquisition Advisors, Hiring Managers, and the wider business, you will deliver a professional and efficient recruitment administration service for a period of 9 months, supporting candidates through the recruitment lifecycle as well as a range of data and process management activities for new temporary joiners.

Responsibilities

• Manage job postings and applicant tracking - Create and publish vacancies, ensuring roles are accurately advertised in the ATS (SmartRecruiters)
• Coordinate interviews and scheduling - Arrange interviews, manage calendars, book rooms, and liaise with hiring managers and candidates across the UK and internationally
• Support the candidate experience - Act as a key point of contact, ensuring a professional, welcoming experience at every stage.
• Support hiring managers with guidance on recruitment processes, ensuring compliance, consistency, and timely approvals.
• Maintain recruitment data and documentation - Keep candidate records up to date, track progress, and ensure all paperwork is accurate and complete.
• Source and pipeline candidates - Use job boards, databases, and social media to identify and attract potential talent.
• Monitor and improve processes by resolving queries, identifying gaps, and supporting efficient hiring workflows.
• Maintain accurate recruitment and workforce data , including contingent worker onboarding, reporting, and data cleansing activities
• Generate regular reports , identifying inconsistencies or missing data, and take action to improve data accuracy and process efficiency.
• The salary for this role is £29,328 and is offered as a 9 month FTC . Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
• This role will be based from our Culham, Oxfordshire site.
• This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) , including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
• Essential Requirements:
• Strong recruitment administrative experience
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confident IT user with experience of systems and applicant tracking systems
• Outstanding communication and customer service skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a process-driven environment
• A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/
• UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email talent@ukaea.uk if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.
• Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

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