Talent Acquisition Coordinator (6 months Fixed Term)

Department: People

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Talent Acquisition and Development Manager

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary:(Depending on experience)

Role Overview

We are looking for a talented Talent Acquisition Coordinator to join our growing People Team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive and highly organised coordinator to support a wide range of recruitment activity across the business.

You will play a key role in helping us scale by supporting hiring for both our contracted Faculty Trainers and our core business roles, adapting your focus based on organisational priorities. Working closely with the Talent Acquisition and Development Manager, you'll be part of a dynamic, fast-paced environment where requirements can shift, and collaboration across the Talent team is key.

If you thrive in a varied role, enjoy managing multiple processes at pace, and are excited about helping candidates have a great experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities:

• Recruitment support (early stages): Support the Talent Acquisition and Development Manager by owning key early-stage recruitment tasks for assigned roles.
• Posting new roles: Post and manage engaging job descriptions via our Applicant Tracking System.
• Candidate shortlisting and sourcing: Perform initial CV reviews and shortlist direct applications. Conduct proactive candidate searches, primarily on LinkedIn Recruiter, with guidance from the Talent Acquisition and Development Manager.
• Virtual screening: Conduct early-stage screening interviews via Google Meet and review one-way video interviews, to help identify high-calibre candidates for the next interview stage.
• Interview scheduling and coordination: Manage scheduling for multiple interviews, acting as the primary point of contact for candidates and internal stakeholders to ensure a seamless experience.
• Candidate experience and pipeline management: Manage the candidate pipeline within the Applicant Tracking System, ensuring all candidates receive timely communication and a positive, engaging experience from initial contact through all stages of the hiring process.
• Proactive talent pipelining: Help build and nurture a talent pipeline for future roles by conducting market mapping and candidate outreach, guided by the Talent Acquisition and Development Manager.
• System administration: Maintain the Applicant Tracking System with accuracy, ensuring compliance and clean data for reporting and analytics.

Candidate Specification:

Essential

• Demonstrable, hands-on experience in a dedicated recruitment or Talent Acquisition role.
• Proven ability to manage high-volume coordination and administrative tasks.
• Experience in supporting early-stage recruitment processes for standard roles.
• Experience in candidate sourcing support (especially LinkedIn Recruiter), CV screening, interview coordination and pipeline management.
• Experience in supporting recruitment of freelance or contractor positions.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced, scale-up environment.
• A proactive, positive attitude toward change.
• Solutions focussed problem solver with strong attention to detail
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey information clearly and effectively to candidates and senior stakeholders.
• Solid working experience managing an Applicant Tracking System to process candidates efficiently.
• Experience in or understanding of the tech space.
• Experience using AI tools.

Desirable

• Experience or a strong understanding of the Apprenticeships landscape.

Company Benefits:

• Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home
• Pension with up to 5% matched contributions
• Opportunity to opt into our salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• EAP with 24 hour confidential support line

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Our Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.