People Administrator

People Team (formerly Human Resources)
£23,662 - £27,396 per annum
As one of Coventry's biggest employers, we offer some pretty impressive benefits including an excellent pension scheme and generous holiday allowances.

Coventry University is a global Education Group that empowers our people, students, and communities to change their lives and the world around them.  We are a large, diverse, and enterprising institution that delivers high quality education, research, and business support through our campuses in Coventry, London, and Scarborough alongside our campus in Wroclaw, Poland as well as through our education, community, and commercial partnerships around the world.

Driven by accelerating growth and diversification within the UK and overseas, and the launch of our new digital platform, we are growing our People Team and reshaping the service we deliver across the Group.  Our people are key to our success and are at the heart of our 2030 Corporate Strategy. We harness the power and potential of the diverse cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences of our colleagues, students, and partners to succeed in our mission to Create Better Futures and opportunities for all.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join an evolving  HR function. Working within our Employment Lifecycle and Onboarding team you will provide a comprehensive, seamless customer focused HR service to both internal and external customers, covering a broad range of administrative activities across the full employment lifecycle.

As a People Administrator – Onbaording & Employment Lifecycle, you will play a key role in delivering a smooth onboarding experience for our new starters. Acting as a point of contact you will be responsible for undertaking all pre-employment checks for candidates and employees including Right to Work in the UK checks, references, issuing offering letters and contracts, occupational health, and DBS where applicable. In addition, ndertaking a range of processes that support our managers and employees through the full employment lifecycle ensuring a smooth transition through each stage of for the employee  and manager journey.

Our Ideal Candidate

You will have a passion for HR with demonstratable experience working in a similar administrative role in a fast-paced process and procedure driven environment. Educated to A-Level you will have excellent customer service and communication skills with the ability to exercise judgement and operate to a high degree of discretion, confidentiality, courtesy, and professionalism with customers across a range of channels including face to face, via telephone and online

High attention to detail with a flexible approach to work, you will be competent in using Microsoft Outlook Excel, Word, and Outlook along with a range of IT systems to effectively imput and extract data

The Benefits

As a staff member of Coventry University, you will have access to a wide range of industry leading rewards and benefits which includes:

• Excellent Employers Pension Contribution

• 30 days Annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• New Holiday Purchase Scheme up to 5 additional days
• BUPA Cash Plan
• 50% off Tuition Fee’s for staff dependants
• CU Reward Scheme – Discounts across a range of High Street/ Online Retailers
• New Electric Car Scheme 
• Cycle To work scheme

Please note this is a fully office-based role and due to the customer facing nature of the role it is not eligible for remote or agile working.

For further details of the role and person specification click here