Barnett Waddingham Hiring for Resourcing Assistant- Early Careers Job at Cheltenham, England Full Time

Overview: We are proud to be the leading independent UK consultancy at the forefront of risk, pensions, investment and insurance. Each individual delivers on our shared values and our commitment to ensuring the highest levels of trust, integrity and quality.

We aim to continue our growth by recruiting talented and committed individuals that have the desire to learn and develop. We strive to employ staff who share our values and can bring special skills – enhancing the service that we provide to our clients.

The HR team are based across our offices including Cheltenham, Bristol, Birmingham and Amersham. It provides a full HR service to the Firm encompassing Total Reward, Employee Experience & Engagement, Organisational Development & Talent, Resourcing and Talent Acquisition, and HR Operations.

Due to the continued growth of the business and our commitment to expanding our Early Careers recruitment programme, we have created a new role within our Resourcing and Talent Aquisition team. The Resourcing Assistant – Early Careers will support the delivery of apprenticeships, graduate programmes and our summer internship scheme.

This is a permanent role and will be worked under our SmartWorking framework where the successful candidate will be able to share time between their base office and home – getting the best of both worlds. Ideally, this person will be based from Cheltenham but we would also consider Bristol.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting with Early Careers Advisors with the operational delivery of resourcing for BW Early Careers programmes within graduate hires, summer internships and apprenticeships
• Responsible for the coordination of assessment centres including booking of rooms, coordination of the interviewers diaries and sending candidate invitations
• Ensuring the assessment materials are up to date and accessible
• Keeping in contact with candidates via email and telephone calls throughout the recruitment process
• Managing the recruitment enquiries inbox and responding to candidate queries
• Assist in maintaining the recruitment applicant tracking system ensuring information is up-to-date
• Adding job vacancies onto jobsites, updating website with jobs and social media platforms
• Support in the arranging the induction programmes for new starters
• Support the wider Talent Acquisition team members from time to time with administrative support
• Promoting BW as a great place to work, and support on initiatives to help BW become more diverse and inclusive within our recruitment

Qualifications:

• Ideally Recruitment Resourcing / Recruitment Administration experience (either in-house or agency) but happy to consider candidates who are keen to start a career in Recruitment / HR
• Ideally 3 years administrative experience
• Experience handling complex scheduling requests and diaries would be advantegeous
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Time management, administration and organisation skills
• Willingness to learn and the ability to work under pressure

What’s in it for you?:
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Core & Flexible Benefits: *

• Competitive discretionary annual bonus
• Core benefits paid for by BW including life assurance, group income protection, private medical cover and 25 days holiday per year with holiday trading
• A generous pension scheme where we contribute 8% of your salary from day one of your employment
• Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your family through any concerns or challenges you may experience
• A comprehensive range of voluntary benefits to suit your life stage and lifestyle including a tech scheme, cycle to work scheme, dental cover, healthcare cash plan, health assessments, critical illness cover, extension of private medical cover or life assurance to family members, gym membership, travel insurance and a broad range of discounts at hundreds of retailers including supermarkets, fitness centres, travel and leisure companies
• Fresh fruit, hot and cold drinks provided free of charge in all of our offices

Giving Something Back:

• 1 paid volunteering day per year as a commitment to our Corporate Social Investment
• Support your favourite charity with the “Give as You Earn” option
• Match-funding for individuals raising money for a recognised charity
• Our corporate social investment programme is an integral part of what we do and is focused on ensuring that our overall impact is a positive one. We recognise that we have an impact that goes beyond our core activities.

Values: our values are PRINCIPLED, RESPECT, QUALITY AND PARTNERSHIP – they are important to us and we want them to be important to you as well.

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Wellbeing*: employee wellbeing has always been important to us and our approach is to create an environment where individuals will be engaged at work, successful in what they do and able to achieve their full potential, benefiting both their self and the business. BW offer a great range of employee benefits as we believe it’s important individuals are supported in making choices which are flexible enough to meet their needs and help support their wellness.

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Diversity*: we are committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce where people from all backgrounds, beliefs and perspectives can thrive, feel welcome and develop to their full potential. Our recruitment processes are designed to be fair and consistent and enable candidates to compete on a level playing field. We r ecognise that diversity today means more than race and gender. This is why we created an environment where a variety of different voices are encouraged and heard through our employee network groups. The groups work together to build an inclusive and diverse place for us all to work. We have attained the Disability Confident Committed status and are actively working towards the next level, Disability Confident Employer.

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Your progression: *we offer career progression opportunities and a focus on training and professional development to provide you with the tools and skills to thrive. We also offer study support for relevant professional or skills qualifications.

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Other activities*: we have clubs, sporting events, social, cultural and belief groups across our offices if you’d like to join in and meet like-minded people.

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Not quite the right opportunity for you this time?*
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Location: St James House,St James Square, Cheltenham GL50

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent