Recruitment, Resourcing and Engagement Assistant

Grade E SCP 11 £28,142 to SCP 17 £31,022 pay award pending

Contract: Fixed Term until 31/08/2027

Role specifics Experience of organising events and providing support to managers is essential.

Interview date: TBC

For further information about this role, contact: Karen.fairhurst@bolton.gov.uk

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role

Are you passionate about people and making a difference? Do you thrive on building relationships and communicating with confidence? We’re looking for a proactive people-person to join our busy team. You’ll be supporting managers with recruitment activity while also leading on a range of people-related projects, including overseeing safeguarding processes. Although we have policies and guidance to work within, we’re always looking for opportunities to improve. You’ll have the freedom to bring fresh ideas, challenge the "way we do things”, and help shape better ways of working, encouraging and empowering managers to do the same.

This isn’t a traditional HR specialist role. Instead, we’re looking for someone with a genuine interest in people and place, a passion for attracting and supporting talent, and a desire to make a positive impact within the local community. If you enjoy working collaboratively, influencing others, and helping people succeed, we’d love to hear from you.

About You

In this role you’ll play an active part promoting our organisation, supporting recruitment events and helping to deliver our schools' work experience programme. You'll be a confident and approachable communicator, comfortable engaging with people from all backgrounds and building positive relationships at every level. You’ll have a proactive and innovative mind-set, with the ability to generate your own work and bring fresh ideas back to the team.

You'll be encouraged to think creatively, take initiative and help shape new approaches to attracting and engaging talent.

Strong written communication skills are essential, as you'll be creating engaging content and communicating persuasively with a range of audiences. You'll also have excellent attention to detail and be comfortable working with data, using insights and analysis to help inform and support our recruitment activities.

Experience of organising events and providing support to managers is essential. A qualification in Business Administration or CIPD Level 3 would be advantageous, but most importantly we're looking for someone with enthusiasm, initiative and a genuine passion for people.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

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This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk