Recruitment Co-ordinator - Northern Gas : Job Details

Recruitment Co-ordinatorSalary from £27,371Up to 5% bonusPermanentLeeds, Thorpe Park – Hybrid Working

Are you an excellent communicator, super organised and have a passion for candidate and hiring manager experience? Then look no further.

We have an exciting opportunity to join us at NGN on a permanent basis as a Recruitment Co-ordinator.

As the Recruitment Co-ordinator you will support the full end to end recruitment process cycle providing co-ordination and administration support. Throughout all aspects of the process, you will focus on delivering the best candidate experience, ensuring the candidate is engaged and has a positive experience throughout the various stages.

Working with the Recruitment Lead and advisor you will fully support the recruitment process with a particular focus on owning the candidate onboarding process. This will include supporting candidates with pre-employment checks, daily management of the recruitment mailbox and scheduling interviews.

You will also have an opportunity to support in some exciting recruitment projects such as reviewing our ways of working to support diversity and inclusion, recruitment branding and utilising our ATS system.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• A focus on delivering the best candidate experience, ensuring each candidate is engaged and has a positive journey throughout the entirety of the process
• Advertising vacancies internally and externally, creating exciting and engaging adverts with a focus on the NGN brand and attracting a diverse range of applicants
• Scheduling and rescheduling interviews where required in a prompt and responsive manner
• Owning the full pre-employment process including creating offer and contracts and undertaking all pre employment checks
• Following up on checks including missing information and chasing outstanding activity to ensure the best possible onboarding experience
• Daily management and ownership of the recruitment mailbox responding to enquiries and requests
• Supporting telephone screening/interviewing dependant on role requirement

What we are looking for

• Experience working in a recruitment administration or co-ordination role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a great telephone manner
• Good time management skills with the ability to juggle multiple activities and priorities at once entirety
• Ability to plan ahead, manage multiple deadlines and prioritise effectively under pressure
• Organised and structured with strong attention to detail
• A self-starter, highly motivated and driven to provide an excellent customer service
• Excellent IT skills including MS Office Excel and Word

What we Offer

• Starting salary from £27,371
• 40 hours per week  
•  Up to 5% bonus (dependent upon achievement of set targets)  
• 25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period) 
• SSP for first 2 calendar days then occupational sick pay 
• A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme
• Free onsite parking
• Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice options... from discounts on a variety of UK attractions, gym membership, restaurant discounts, experience days...and exclusive NGN discounts and much more!
• An array of fantastic family- friendly policies such as 6 weeks’ paternity leave (for eligible employees) and 6 months’ full pay for employees on maternity leave (for eligible employees), as well as shared parental leave and many more

We are ... Northern Gas Networks. We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That is around 6.7million individual customers. We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes. In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again. We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role. We are … Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people. We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good’ in the communities that we serve. 

Next Steps. Please apply by uploading your CV. We love to see how your experience and skills are transferable to this role so please ensure these are all included in your application. Once the advert has closed, we will be contact within one week to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role throughout September. We look forward to receiving your application for the role.

If you require adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process, we want to hear about how we can help. Any applicant that requires reasonable adjustments from initial application through to interview are asked to contact the Recruitment Team at