Recruitment Coordinator

Location: Bedford
Contract type: Permanent, 25 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

About the role

We are currently seeking a Recruitment Coordinator to join our Talent Acquisition & Onboarding department at The Bedford College Group. As a Recruitment Coordinator, you play an important role in the success of our students through:

• Providing efficient end-to-end recruitment support, delivering a positive experience for hiring managers and candidates while ensuring compliance with policies, procedures and KPIs.
• Managing recruitment administration, including job advertising, candidate communications, vacancy tracking, offers, contracts and maintaining accurate records within HR systems.
• Coordinating pre-employment screening and onboarding processes, including right to work checks, DBS checks, references, qualification verification and safeguarding compliance.
• Supporting visa sponsorship applications, internal recruitment processes and the maintenance of the Single Central Record (SCR), ensuring organisational compliance and risk management.
• Working collaboratively with the wider People Team to enhance recruitment processes, employer branding and the overall candidate and employee experience.

Requirements

We're seeking an organised and customer-focused recruitment professional with experience supporting end-to-end recruitment, pre-employment checks, and onboarding processes. You'll have:

• Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using HR, recruitment, or onboarding systems.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding, DBS, Right to Work, and data protection requirements.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and administrative skills with strong attention to detail.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office and other digital systems.
• The ability to work independently, prioritise workloads, and meet deadlines.
• A proactive, professional approach with the ability to handle confidential information sensitively.

Successful candidates must also be able to demonstrate alignment to our organisational VISION values:

• Valuing Teamwork - We are one team who by working together can achieve great things, respecting the opinion and valuing the contribution each of us makes.
• Improving Continuously - We challenge ourselves to always do better by trying new things, sharing knowledge, reflecting on practice and learning from others.
• Student Centred - At our heart is always doing what is best for our students. We consider students in all of our decision making to create positive outcomes and memorable experiences for every student.
• Inclusive - We celebrate differences and diversity, recognising that we can learn from each other.
• Open and Caring - We care about the wellbeing of our staff, our students, our community and wider society, creating an environment built on trust where we listen, engage with and support each other.
• Nurturing Education Excellence - We promote educational excellence by delivering programmes that challenge our students to achieve their ambitions.

Benefits

• Salary between £25,585 and £30,915 per annum (pro rata for 25 hours per week)
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• People’s Pension
• Retail and Leisure Discounts
• Excellent professional and personal development opportunities, including access to college courses

About The Bedford College Group

The Bedford College Group was formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College and is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 15,000 students passing through our doors each year. Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire: Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College and Tresham College in the towns of Bedford, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Corby, Kettering and Wellingborough; Shuttleworth College, a specialist land-based college; The Bedford Sixth Form, (the only dedicated sixth form in Bedford); The Corby Sixth Form, (opened in September 2023); and the National College for Motorsport alongside Silverstone race circuit. To widen accessibility to education and training, the Group also has community-based Learning Centres in Bedford, Corby and Kettering which offer IT training.

Safeguarding

The Bedford College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a thorough vetting process which includes an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Candidates who are barred from working with children are reminded it is a criminal offence to apply for this post.