Recruitment & People Coordinator
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The vacancy
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Job Purpose
The Recruitment & People Coordinator plays a key role in supporting the full recruitment cycle while providing administrative support across the people function. The role focuses on recruitment coordination, ensuring an efficient and positive candidate and hiring manager experience, while the remaining time supports people administration activities throughout the employee lifecycle such as role changes and the leavers process.
Key Responsibilities
Recruitment
- Coordinate and schedule interviews between candidates, hiring managers and recruiters.
- Create and issue all contracts, offer letters and other documentation to support the employee lifecycle as well as supporting with administration & coordination of committee recruitment.
- Process & manage pre-employment screening activities.
- Coordinate Induction for all new starters.
- Maintain accurate records in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Help to implement a new onboarding system and process within existing ATS.
- Communicate with candidates throughout the hiring process to ensure a positive experience.
- Coordinate recruitment agency relationships.
- Being a super user for the applicant tracking system, ensuring data accuracy and usability
- Coordinate & distribute Talent Acquisition-related communications, including the weekly vacancy list.
- Support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with hiring policies and data protection regulations.
- Supporting the monthly payroll process by liaising with the Finance department ensuring an effective transfer of information
- Maintaining accurate employee records
People Administration
- Production of key people data on a regular and ad hoc basis
- Maintaining accurate employee records
- Contributing to the general work of the department by undertaking such other duties as may be required by other members of the team.
Other (e.g. the requirement to travel either in the UK or overseas or deliver ad hoc projects)
- Ad-hoc project work for the people team
Essential Qualifications
At least Level 3 Qualified CIPD completed.
Essential skills, knowledge & experience
- Previous experience in recruitment coordination, talent acquisition administration, & People (HR) administration.
- Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and HR Information Systems (HRIS).
- Experience coordinating interviews, scheduling and recruitment administration.
- IT literate, including good knowledge of Microsoft office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook & Teams.
- Confident communicating with stakeholders at all levels and building strong working relationships.
- A proactive, adaptable and solutions-focused approach.
- Keen interest and understanding of candidate experience and organisation culture.
Desired skills & experience
- An interest in people processes, employment legislation and compliance.
- Previous experience with ATS (Networx) and HRIS (Cascade)
- Experience of working with sensitive data.
- Basic understanding of employment legislation.
- Experience using online platforms, job boards etc.
- Ability to coordinate multiple vacancies, candidates & priorities effectively and efficiently.
1st Interviews - Thursday 19th November 2026 (online)
2nd Interviews - Thursday 26th November 2026 - (In person)
*The application page will give you a single 'Upload your CV' option. Please use this CV upload option to upload a single document that includes both a Cover letter and a CV within a single document. Please use the Cover letter to outline how your skills, experience and knowledge meets the essential criteria of the role *
The organisation
Here at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, improving animal health and welfare by advancing the ethical, professional, and clinical standards of the veterinary professions is at the heart of all our work. We also strive to advance veterinary standards with programmes of work around mental health, leadership, environmental sustainability, diversity, and innovation.
We set the standards for and monitor the quality of veterinary education; we hold Registers of those vets and veterinary nurses who are qualified to practice; we set professional standards for vets and veterinary nurses, and we help practices raise their standards through our Practice Standards Scheme.
Team benefits
We're pleased to offer an attractive benefits package to all members our team. A few of these are listed below, however you can click here to see a full list and find out more!
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