Hiring Coordinator - 6 month FTC

Team: Talent Acquisition

Salary banding: £25,000 - £28,000

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full-Time (6 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Reporting to: Daniel McCaughan

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Proactive Coordination, Relationship Building, Continuous Improvement

Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication. Organisation. Resilience

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We’re looking for an amazing new Talent Acquisition Coordinator, supporting hiring within our tech teams across the UK, and driving best practices.

The business is at a phenomenal time of organisational change, and the successful candidate will be at the heart of this. This is an opportunity to play a central and pivotal role in the organisation’s future development - helping us to build the best tech team in the UK - all whilst driving us closer to zero carbon!

This role in a nutshell:

You will work closely with the Talent Acquisition team, Hiring Managers and Candidates to schedule interviews, remove blockers and ensure that the interview process is as efficient as possible.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Uploading job specifications to our external careers website as well as our internal job board.
• Coordinating interviews for our tech teams
• Liaising with recruitment agencies, ensuring they are well informed on our requirements and sourcing the best candidates for OVO
• Administration, coordination and support of assessment centres
• Processing offer letters and contracts
• Helping to build our employer brand as an EnTech employer of choice, utilising social media, meetups, events and more!
• Maintaining high levels of data integrity in all of our internal systems including our ATS, Greenhouse.
• Ensuring that every candidate that speaks to OVO, gets a fantastic candidate experience.
• Constantly iterating - bringing ideas to the wider Talent team to ensure we’re always looking to improve how we do things in the team. It’s a great time to innovate at OVO!

Systems: Greenhouse ATS, Workday, Google Sheets, Docusign & LinkedIn to name a few

You’ll be a successful Hiring Coordinator at OVO if you have…

• Proven tech recruitment coordination experience gained in a fast-paced environment 
• Strong personal impact and relationship building skills, with the capability to engage with candidates, managers and external agencies.
• Successful proven experience of managing and prioritising multiple time sensitive projects effectively
• A strong administrator with great attention to detail.
• You will be able to adapt to a fast paced changing environment and know that nothing is impossible!
• High pace, resilience, gravitas and flexibility

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £25,000 and £28,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
For your home Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan , plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..