About The Role

Are you passionate about delivering exceptional recruitment services and supporting hiring managers to find the best talent? We’re looking for a proactive and people-focused Recruitment Coordinator to join our Recruitment Services team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering a comprehensive, value-for-money recruitment service across the University. You’ll work closely with the Recruitment Services Manager to ensure a smooth and effective hiring process, while also providing expert advice on recruitment policies, procedures, and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring a seamless experience for hiring managers and candidates.
• Provide guidance on advertising, selection methods, redeployment, and equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Maximise the use of our Recruitment system to support data-driven recruitment decisions.
• Supervise and support the Recruitment Support Assistants in the absence of the Recruitment Services Manager.
• Ensure compliance with data protection and record retention policies.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in recruitment, ideally within a large or complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of recruitment best practices and employment legislation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of planning and organising self and others to deliver against agreed service standards and deadlines in a high volume, process-driven, administrative environment promoting a positive and enabling culture that puts the customer at the heart of service delivery
• Demonstrates a commitment to the University’s values, understands the importance of diversity in the workplace, and acts as a role model in treating all contacts with respect and patience.

What you will get in return

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we are unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Maeve Halmark

Email: Maeve.halmark@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.