CMA2011 – Recruitment Officer

If you have excellent administration skills and high attention to detail, join us as a Recruitment Officer. You will play a pivotal role in supporting and delivering this vital function in a forward looking and high performing team.

You will be responsible for conducting pre-employment checks in accordance with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard and take a leading role in administrating and monitoring applications for higher security levels. You will ensure the effective and efficient onboarding of new staff to the CMA and you will work collaboratively with a range of teams to deliver a seamless candidate experience.

You will also contribute to the delivery of projects being undertaken within the wider HR team, enabling you to further enhance your career.     

To be successful in this role, you will have excellent administration skills ideally gained working in an HR or Recruitment team.  You will have experience of liaising with stakeholders at varying levels and an ability to prioritise a busy workload. To round off your profile, you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, a keen eye for detail, and good IT skills – especially in using Microsoft Excel to manage and track data.

What we can offer you

The CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme, and our extensive flexible working options.

To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.

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Closing date for applications: 11:55pm on Monday 15 January 2024.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

Pre-employment checks

• Responsible for ensuring the necessary checks have been undertaken for each candidate offered a role at the CMA; this may include staff on temporary contracts and secondments, according to CMA recruitment standards and the Baseline Personnel Security Standard.
• Ensure right to work check and DBS check compliance, working closely with colleagues to ensure progress of checks in a timely manner.
• Responsible for completion of pre-employment trackers and associated filing systems to ensure compliance and accurate information management.
• Liaise with colleagues from Learning & Development, all HR teams and IT to ensure a robust and timely onboarding and induction programme is in place for all new starters across all CMA offices, including in the Devolved Nations.

Security Vetting

• Send application forms to all new joiners requiring higher levels of security clearance, checking employee details against personnel records.
• Act as the main contact for application updates and process queries, ensuring applications are progressed at pace.
• Log, track, and self-audit all applications in process, ensuring errors are addressed and resolved.
• Monitor expiry dates of higher security levels and initiate new applications as necessary.
• Produce monthly updates of the progress of higher-level security checks, ensuring escalation of complex or high-risk issues.

Recruitment Campaigns

• Issue final confirmation of employment letters once all pre-employment checks are completed and finalise start dates for new joiners.
• Ensure all signed paperwork is scanned and saved to the appropriate e-file.
• Book team meetings and rooms, assisting with paperwork and minute taking where necessary.

On-boarding

• Ensure joining instructions are sent out to all new joiners informing of instructions for induction and IT set up.
• Set up new joiner records for agency staff on the HR system (Agresso) and preparation of all new CMA joiner files to handover to HR Operations for payroll processing.
• Issue new joiner instructions to candidates and ensure laptop and security pass collection (new starter induction) is confirmed with hiring manager.
• Conduct in-person ID and DBS checks.

Other

• Ensure the ‘appointments by exception’ tracker is kept updated with details on secondees joining the CMA, loan ins and temporary appointments and appropriately filing all written Commission approvals.
• Ensure all team purchase order numbers are appropriately opened and resolved and invoices are processed accurately and correctly logged.
• Ensure any actions relating to temporary agency employee extensions are completed including updating end dates on Agresso and liaising with agencies.
• Monitor the recruitment inbox and respond to emails relating to external and internal enquiries.  Respond to telephone queries about vacancies or pre-employment checks, ensuring any complex enquiries are forwarded to the relevant recruitment team member.

It is essential that you can provide evidence and examples for each of the following selection criteria in your application:

• Computer literate, particularly a high competence in MS Excel (V-look ups, pivot tables) and some experience using HR Systems. (Lead Criteria).
• Excellent administration skills, including data entry and records management (Lead Criteria)
• Experience of dealing with a range of internal and external stakeholders at different seniority levels, to provide a high-quality service.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to prioritise a busy workload. 

Desirable criteria:

• Experience of providing support to an HR or Recruitment Team
• Experience conducting pre-employment checks

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

As well as the interesting and varied work you’ll do to contribute to effective competition in the UK, and to ensure consumers get a good deal when buying goods and services, you’ll also benefit from:

• An exceptionally generous pension scheme with a significant employer contribution and range of options, including a tax-free lump sum at the point of retirement and injury, ill-health and life assurance benefits
• 25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King’s birthday. In addition, you’ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering
• Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests
• Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard
• A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional learning opportunities at work

Any move to the CMA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.

If you’re already a civil servant being appointed on level transfer, you’ll retain your existing terms, including annual leave. If you are being promoted you’ll receive either a 10% pay increase or the new grade minimum, whichever is the greater. Applicants new to the civil service can be considered for appointment at a salary higher than the starting point indicated above, but not more than the advertised mid-point, depending on skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications.

We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We want a diverse workforce that reflects the consumers we serve. We welcome applications from under-represented groups, including ethnically diverse people, people with a disability, people with diverse gender identities and from people of different ages. 

We are an accredited Disability Confident Employer and disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

Our Values

The CMA delivers impactful outcomes for people, business and the UK economy.​ We are Ambitious and Evidence-based, and always strive for Excellence.​ We treat everyone with Respect, and are Collaborative and Inclusive.​

Everything we do is underpinned by the Civil Service values: Honesty, Integrity, Impartiality and Objectivity.

Job contact :

• Name : recruitment@cma.gov.uk
• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk
• Telephone : 020 3738 6808

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk