Staff Recruitment & Compliance Officer

Job Description

Staff Recruitment & Compliance Officer Location: TeessideContract type: 18 month fixed term contractSalary: Up to £24,190 with a genuinely market leading benefits package that is designed to retain and attract the best talent in our region. In addition to this the college offers 38 days holiday including the statutory allowance.Who is my client: Middlesbrough College is the largest further education provider in Teesside.It provides predominantly further education but also selected higher education provisions to over 13,000 students. The College also employs over 1,000 staff out of their £100m state of the art campus on the banks of the tees.Whilst retaining and developing its traditional offering it has also recently been selected as the Tees Valley hub of the North Easts Institute of Technology - A new concept providing higher technical training through collaboration between further and highereducation and employers. The funding secured through the Institute of Technology has been invested in extending the Colleges STEM Centre, the latest expansion of the Middlesbrough College group, bringing a range of academic, technical, and vocational trainingopportunities to learners across the region.Teesside is set to benefit from a number of exciting developments! To name but a few, the largely discussed Freeport and the creation of a treasury northern campus will bring revenue that will create a vast number of opportunities to the people of our region.Responsibilities:

• To administer recruitment campaigns including job advertisements, liaising with managers about their requirements, and liaising with the Marketing team for social media campaigns.
• Maintain the recruitment software (Networx) relating to job approval, and advertisements.
• To coordinate the completion of all the pre-employment vetting checks of new appointments ensuring regulatory, compliance, legislative and statutory requirements are met. This includes Right to Work checks, Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) applications,Overseas checks, Barred List checks.
• To supervise and monitor the accurate processing of the Interim Application to Recruit (IAR) and the production of weekly reports.
• To ensure a smooth onboarding experience for new appointments and the associated managers within the college including inputting them on systems and issuing relevant paperwork.
• Working seamlessly alongside the Workforce Development Team to ensure new starters are booked for relevant inductions.
• Supporting the other parts of the HR team with general HR administration across the whole employee lifecycle, including booking meetings, payroll administration taking notes in formal hearings.
• Answering all recruitment related queries and problem solving as required
• Working seamlessly alongside the Workforce Development Team to ensure new starters are booked for relevant inductions
• Support the HR Payroll team in payroll administration as and when required.
• To carry out such other duties commensurate with your skills, knowledge, and experience.
• The College may, in consultation with you, need to vary these duties from time to time to respond to the changing requirements of the College

Essential Requirements:

• Minimum Level 2 qualification in Business Administration / Customer Service or HR qualification.
• To hold or be willing to complete the NSPCC Safer Recruitment course.
• Personal commitment to Continuous Professional Development.
• Grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent).
• Experience of working within administration or recruitment.
• Ability to prioritise your own workload and completing tasks with a high level of accuracy
• Strong administrative skills, high attention to detail, able to work under pressure effectively and work flexibly responding to changing demands and priorities
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion and diplomacy
• Have a basic understanding of HR and recruitment processes
• To have provided a high level of customer service to internal clients and ability to build rapport quickly across all levels of the organisation
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both verbal and in writing, and the ability to engage and work with a wide variety of audiences.
• Excellent IT skills using the MS Office package, particularly Excel and Word.
• To have excellent time management and organisational skills. The role will require working to tight deadlines and the ability to effectively plan workloads is essential, and respond to planned and ad hoc demands
• Customer focus combined with a flexible can do attitude.
• Ability to work confidentially and in a professional and positive manner

For more information or for a confidential discussion around this opportunity please feel free to contact Anthony Antoniou at Imperial Recruitment Group