Southampton

37.5 hours

12 Month FTC

 

What we re all about:

Cavendish is all about talented people, delivering excellent results for our clients. We are a multi-award-winning, PR Week Top 150 communications consultancy, ranked No 1 in PR Week s UK Public Affairs consultancy rankings and recognised as PRCA National Awards Specialist Consultancy of the Year. 

Cavendish brings together industry-specialist communications to provide integrated solutions for clients and limitless development opportunities for our people.  

We believe in sourcing talent from diverse backgrounds, nurturing a company culture that leads to a strong work life balance, and strengthening it by providing great learning and development opportunities. 

What you will get from us:

You ll have the opportunity to take your career to the next level, working with dynamic, talented people in a fast paced and expanding organisation. Alongside a competitive salary, we provide extensive training and development opportunities and an industry leading benefits package including:

• A flexible, hybrid working model. 
• Access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry  
• Industry leading allocation of paid time off  
• Geographical flexibility across our regional offices 
• Private Medical Insurance 
• Regular social and teambuilding events 
• Paid time off to volunteer for a charity.  

What we are looking for:

Essential criteria

• Strong technical ability in O365 including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Generalist HR experience with knowledge of employment law and managing team projects.
• Excellent knowledge of the whole Recruitment process and using applicant tracking systems.
• Able to identify recruitment best practice and the measures that drive performance.
• Ability to balance immediate and long-term needs of the business and the team through planning and prioritisation of work.

Desirable criteria

• Experience working across a variety of business betterment projects.
• Experience of continuous improvement of systems and processes
• Experience of project management.
• Experience of office management.

What you ll need to do:

• Oversee and be responsible for all recruitment across the business, building relationships with universities, proactive recruitment and building talent networks.
• Build and coordinate delivery of company wide training programme.
• Support with the creation and implementation a recruitment plan and attraction strategy that proactively meets the needs of the business.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with senior leaders and central teams.
• Use data analysis to identify opportunities to improve recruitment process.
• Manage and be responsible for the company learning management system, developing training courses for employees.
• Supporting the team in delivering projects.
• Oversee Health and Safety policies and procedures, ensuring compliance across the company and that everything is in line with legislation.

Equal Opportunities 

Our vision is to be a truly diverse and inclusive workplace that enables us to attract and retain a diverse workforce, representative of our clients and community. For this reason, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of qualifications and experience in industry and from all persons, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. 

Everyone stands to benefit when we embrace and value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and ways of working that people from different backgrounds, experiences and identities bring to an organisation.