Energy Saving Trust Hiring for Recruitment Officer Job at London, England Full Time

Closing Date: 25 August 2022
Issue Date: 11 August 2022
Position Ref: RS 927
Location: Flexible within the UK. Home-based or blended working from home and any of our offices in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast.

Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum (depending on experience)

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

As well as investing in our mission, we invest in our people and culture. We’re committed to creating an engaging, supportive and inclusive workplace for all and providing opportunities for development, training and growth. We also provide a range of benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme and a wellbeing allowance. Please see our careers page for more information on why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

The team

The people team are one of the key support services which serve as an anchor in our organisation. We support, coach, challenge and guide our people throughout their time with us. We provide essential services throughout the employee lifecycle, from recruitment to onboarding to development to employees moving on.

As a team we believe in walking the walk for our organisation. We are therefore consistently reviewing and challenging ourselves to be the best people professionals we can in order to support the climate emergency. This has created a team full of engaged, passionate and super supportive team members.

If successful, you will not just be joining a team but becoming part of our culture. With quotes of the day, a weekly coffee catchups and team chat, we make sure we are there for each other in all we do and can pull together to deliver for our people.

The role

As an organisation we need to continue our growth plans to ensure we are doing all we can to meet and deliver on our mission to address the climate emergency. This role is a vital part of supporting these plans through ensuring an efficient and seamless recruitment process supporting our recruiting managers to source and onboard talent when they are needed.

This role will give our busiest departments of Energy, Transport and Business Development some much needed expert support to speed up and reduce project team time spent on filling vacant posts, which means we will be able to deliver on our mission quicker.

What you’ll do

• Lead on efficient support and coordination for all activities in the recruitment lifecycle for Energy, Transport and Business Development teams.
• Support recruiting manager with job description creation and updating.
• After agreeing key competencies for shortlisting, carry out first shortlisting sift for the manager on each recruitment campaign.
• Be the key contact for candidates’ communication responding to queries and notifying them as they move through the stages of recruitment.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrable experience of delivering recruitment activities including job description and advert drafting, shortlisting and interviewing.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple recruitment campaigns throughout various stages of the process.

• Proven ability to build rapport and effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels.

This is a permanent position. Our standard weekly hours are 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday.

This is a full-time role.

We are open to flexible working locations (within the UK) and as standard we offer all contracts on blended (home and office-based) working.

For more information, please see job description available here JD – Recruitment Officer – RS 927 .

Applications close 5pm, Thursday 25 August 2022. Interviews are intended to be held w/c 5 September 2022.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to [email protected]. In your cover letter please explain how you meet the essential areas in the job description. Please state the job reference you are applying for in the subject line. Applications submitted without a covering letter will not be considered.

If you think you may need additional support or adjustments made to any part of the application/recruitment process, please get in touch with [email protected].

The majority of our people are working from home but have access to our office locations – Edinburgh, London, Cardiff and Belfast. We will we be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note that we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Our commitment to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace

To address the urgent challenges posed by the climate emergency, we need a diversity of people, experiences and ideas. We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust. We particularly encourage men and people from minority ethnic groups to apply for this role as we know that they are disproportionately under-represented in this area of work. If there is anything we can do to support you in applying, please get in touch with us at [email protected]. Please note that we will always ensure that a fair recruitment process is followed for all candidates and appointments will be made based on merit.

Find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.