Recruitment & Compliance Coordinator

Job Description:

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

Orbit are delighted to be recruiting for a Recruitment & Compliance Coordinator to join our Resourcing team in this newly created role, in continuing to attract and hire exceptional talent into our organisation. The Coordinator plays a key role in delivering an efficient, compliant and high-quality recruitment service across all hiring types, including, permanent, fixed term, temporary and contractor engagements.

Working as part of the Talent Acquisition team, the role provides operational support, coordination and first-line candidate and colleague liaison to ensure the timely and effective delivery of workforce requirements across the organisation. While the role will cover all aspects of Orbits talent acquisition, the overarching focus will be on the delivery and management of administrative, co-ordination and reporting activities linked to Orbits temporary recruitment framework.

To be successful in this role, you'll be an organised individual with a structured approach to processes and a key interest in data, reporting and compliance monitoring. You'll enjoy working within fast paced environment, that will see you building new relationships daily, liaising with stakeholders, and managing external suppliers.

This role is known internally as 'Talent Acquisition Coordinator' and is part of People and Strategy where you'll help us to build a culture and brand that people want to be part of.

What you'll achieve

• Act as a point of contact for agencies and agency supplied worker and contractor queries.
• Lead on compliance checks linked to temporary recruitment ensuring that agencies have carried out and uploaded required documentation linked to the framework agreement.
• Maintain accurate records of temporary workers, extensions and end dates.
• Track and follow up on any outstanding weekly timesheet approvals with hiring teams.
• Produce detailed analysis of compliance check and audit outcomes
• Support the team with new supplier requests, governance signing documentation and supplier onboarding
• Support the evaluation and creation of month end reporting and ad-hoc requests.
• Support and guide colleagues and hiring managers with systems access, guidance on usage and ongoing support.
• Draft and publish job adverts and talent attraction assets ensuring consistency with brand guidelines.
• Schedule interviews, assessments and meetings, liaising with candidates and colleagues.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Experience supporting or acting on recruitment or HR processes in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous experience of communicating with candidates, hiring managers and agencies on talent acquisition related matters.
• Practical experience and awareness of recruitment compliance (right to work, working time regulations, agency worker regulations etc)
• IT proficient with recruitment platforms such as talent acquisition systems (ATS) and vendor management systems (VMS).
• Proven ability to work with financial or numerical data with experience of reconciliations.

Desirable skills

• Experience in both permanent and temporary recruitment environments.
• Understanding of IR35 and contingent workforce management.
• Experience producing or interpreting recruitment MI reports.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.