Talent Engagement Assistant
Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, London
Core Functions – Talent Engagement /
Permanent - Employee /
Hybrid
Talent Engagement Assistant (Contingent Workforce)
Salary: £27k - £30k
Purpose
We’re looking for a Talent Engagement Assistant to join our people team. This is a development role for someone who’s keen to grow their career in talent and workforce coordination.
You’ll support our Talent Engagement activities and our contingent workforce administration, helping ensure positive, people centred experiences for candidates, contingent workers and internal stakeholders.
You don’t need prior experience in a technology consultancy, but an interest in people-focused work and good communication skills are essential.
You’ll work closely with the Contingent Workforce Manager, supporting interview scheduling, contingent workforce administration and day-to-day coordination.
As you grow in the role, you’ll have opportunities to get involved in wider people team initiatives, process improvement and projects. This role is ideal if you’re organised, curious, and keen to learn.
Key Activities
• Work within the Talent Engagement team to support the end-to-end candidate journey
• Schedule and coordinate candidate interviews, working with our interview communities to manage availability
• Communicate with candidates to ensure a consistent, speedy and positive experience
• Support the Contingent Workforce Manager with day-to-day administrative tasks
• Assist with onboarding and off-boarding contingent workers, following agreed processes
• Maintain accurate records for candidates, contingent workers and suppliers
• Work with external partners to progress candidates and contractors through relevant processes
• Support the coordination of timesheets, approvals and basic queries
• Support process improvement and business change initiatives across the people team
Deliverables
• Coordinate interview scheduling, meet agreed turnaround times, keep a shared interviewer rota up to date
• Run and efficient contingent pre-boarding and off-boarding processes
• Maintain complete, clean contingent worker records on our applicant tracking system
• Make timesheets simple by running a steady weekly cycle for submissions and approvals, set clear cutoffs, answer basic queries quickly
• Build and maintain the intranet and playbooks for our contingent workforce
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email [email protected]
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
