Job Description

Reporting to the Recruitment Manager, the External Recruitment Coordinator is responsible for delivering end-to-end external recruitment activity and providing a professional, customer-focused service to candidates, hiring managers and stakeholders. The role supports recruitment campaigns, onboarding, governance and continuous improvement activities, ensuring services are delivered efficiently, compliantly and in line with agreed standards. The postholder will work closely with recruiters and stakeholders across the business and provide support and deputise for the Recruitment Team Leader when required.

Principal Accountabilities

• Coordinate end-to-end external recruitment campaigns from vacancy creation through to onboarding and vacancy closure, ensuring activities are delivered accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Act as the primary point of contact for candidates and hiring managers, providing guidance, managing expectations and delivering an excellent customer experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with recruiters, hiring managers and stakeholders to support positive recruitment outcomes and effective service delivery.
• Coordinate recruitment activities including shortlisting, interview scheduling, moderation meetings, offer management and onboarding.
• Manage recruitment activity within Talent Link, Pega and K2, ensuring high standards of data quality, governance and compliance.
• Support talent attraction, candidate engagement and recruitment marketing activities, including vacancy advertising, talent pipeline management and employer branding initiatives.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and support to team members, acting as a subject matter expert for external recruitment processes and deputising for the Team Leader when required.
• Produce and analyse recruitment metrics, monitor campaign performance and identify opportunities to improve service delivery, candidate experience and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with company policies, procedures, employment legislation and diversity and inclusion principles.
• Support recruitment projects, peak hiring campaigns and continuous improvement initiatives across the recruitment function.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience coordinating recruitment campaigns and managing recruitment activity from attraction through to onboarding.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and deliver a high-quality customer service.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver against agreed deadlines and service standards.
• Experience using recruitment systems, applicant tracking systems and maintaining accurate recruitment data.
• Ability to analyse information, identify trends, make informed decisions and implement improvements to recruitment processes and service delivery.
• Good understanding of recruitment processes, customer service principles, governance requirements and administrative controls.
• Ability to coach, support and guide colleagues, sharing knowledge and best practice to support team performance.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively whilst constructively challenging and holding stakeholders accountable to agreed recruitment processes and timescales.

Desirable Skills

• Level 3-5 qualification in Business Administration, Human Resources, Recruitment or a related discipline.
• Working knowledge of Sellafield Ltd terms and conditions, together with its recruitment processes, policies and practices.
• Experience coaching, supporting or developing colleagues within a team environment. • Experience of applicant tracking systems, recruitment marketing tools, social media platforms and online attraction channels.

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Andrea Fowler

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to be 5th November 2026.

ASW’s may have the right to apply for internal Sellafield Ltd vacancies. Please note if you are an Agency Supplied Worker you are required to attach evidence of all qualifications obtained to support your application. We require a minimum of A*-C (9-4) GCSE in English Language, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

Contracted Supply Workers (CSWs) are not eligible to apply to internal vacancies. CSWs are welcome to apply to external vacancies advertised on our external vacancies board.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted by the hiring manager, you will be invited to a competency based interview. In the interview, you will be assessed against the below competencies:

Behavioural:
• Problem Solving
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Adapting to Change
• Holding Self and Others to Account

Technical:
• 37.2 Delivering high quality HR services
• 37.7 Improving individual and team performance

Please see link to the competency framework for further information:
https://slportal.ssa-intra.net/pub/SC001/00027/Competency%20Framework/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If your technical competency is not in the above framework, please refer to the profession’s share point page for further information.

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk

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The closing date for this vacancy is 26th October 2026