Team Assistant - 30 hours per week

Fieldfisher ,
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Job Type: Full-time

Overview

The Team The HR department is responsible for the provision of a full range of HR services to the Firm including recruitment and resourcing, talent management, compensation and benefits, performance management, employee relations, staff welfare, compliance and maintenance of personnel records. The team is responsible for the hiring of staff into all UK offices (and on occasions Europe). As part of your role, you will join a team of 10 and you will spend the majority of time on boarding new joiners and supporting the Recruitment Managers who look after business services and fee earning hires (with the exception of partner hires) for the UK offices. This role will provide overflow support to graduate recruitment and also support on ad hoc projects, process improvement projects etc. Responsibilities Completing pre-employment checks for employees (for example, references and medicals). Responsibility for all administrative on boarding processes from offer stage to day of joining Producing a wide variety of contracts, including consultancy agreements. Adding new employees onto the firm database Responsibility for high levels of compliance including CRB checks and reference checking all new joiners to minimum standard. Use social media platforms to promote the firm and attract and source candidates for vacancies. Liaising with the marketing department on changes to the intranet and careers website. Working closely with IT, security, IT training and HR to ensure inductions are set up to run smoothly for new joiners. Assist in our apprentice and graduate recruitment process Interview scheduling and candidate correspondence relating to these Responsibility for maintaining the live job advertisements on our applicant tracking system. Producing quarterly performance related and cost saving reports including measuring ROI. Ensuring compliance with the firm's GDPR regulations when sharing CVs and handling sensitive data. Assisting and conducting HR inductions. Producing terms of business with external recruitment agencies and handling correspondence with these. Coordinating and managing assessments for candidates, including in-house assessments and online assessments and benchmarking results. Processing invoices. Key Skills & Experience Proven experience of working in an administrative role where attention to detail is essential. Experience of working independently, complying with processes and producing high quality work. Strong academics Committed to developing a career in recruitment/ HR Strong communication skills; both written and oral. Excellent proven project and time management skills. A positive disposition as well as being a strong team player and hard worker. The Firm Fieldfisher is a European law firm with market leading practices in many of the world's most dynamic sectors. We are an exciting, forward-thinking organisation with a particular focus on technology , finance & financial services , energy & natural resources , life sciences and media. Our growing European network of offices supports an international client base alongside our Silicon Valley and China colleagues. We also work in a number of other jurisdictions through dedicated country teams. Among our clients, we count social media sites and high street coffee chains as well as pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical devices companies, energy suppliers, banks and technology leaders. Clients choose to work with us because we deliver commercial, pragmatic and innovative solutions through our exceptional legal expertise and experience, on time and on budget. Our network has more than 1000 people working across 20 offices providing highly commercial advice based on an in-depth understanding of our clients' needs. We operate across our offices in Amsterdam , Beijing , Belfast , Birmingham , Bologna , Brussels , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hamburg , London , Luxembourg , Manchester , Munich , Milan , Paris , Rome , Shanghai , Turin , Venice and Silicon Valley. In 2017, Fieldfisher was named Law Firm of the Year in Western Germany at the Juve Awards, and Law firm of the Year at the British Legal Awards. 2018 saw Fieldfisher named Law Firm of the year at the Legal Business Awards 2018. Fieldfisher's Condor Alternative Legal Solutions won the award for 'New Business and Service Delivery Models’ at the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards 2017. Fieldfisher also won Personal Injury Team of the Year at the Solicitors Journal Awards 2017. Fieldfisher aims to ensure equality of opportunity and we are actively working towards improving the diversity of our staff. All applications will only be considered on merit and the applicant's suitability to meet the requirements of the role