Talent Acquisition Team Administrator, Cancer Research
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
£25.5-27.5k
Office located in Stratford
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£25.5-27.5k
Office located in Stratford
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of working within a fast-moving office environment, delivering to deadlines with different priorities
- Microsoft Office skills (particularly in MS Excel)
- Practical experience of working with and entering data into databases and ensuring high standards of data integrity and accuracy
- Experience of working in an environment dealing with highly confidential and sensitive information
- Strong customer service mindset, focussed on continuous improvement of service provision
- Ability to build excellent relationships and manage multiple stakeholders
- Highly organised and conscientious with strong prioritisation skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Calm under pressure with the ability to work at pace to meet deadlines
- Understand the need for confidentiality, discretion and diplomacy
- Able to work effectively and flexibly as part of a team
- Comfortable dealing with a balance of planned activities and ad-hoc requests
What the job involves
- Reports to: Talent Acquisition Partner
- We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Talent Acquisition Administrator
- We need you to support Cancer Research UK’s talent function with the skills needed to provide administration and coordination support to the Trading Talent Acquisition team for all internal & external recruitment and related activity
- Provide inbox and phone line support to the wider Talent Acquisition team
- Act as the primary point of contact for all internal and external recruitment enquiries, including ownership of the resourcing hotline and recruitment inbox, ensuring that all requests are dealt with correctly and promptly to ensure excellent candidate and hiring manager experience
- Develop strong working relationships with HR and Trading colleagues to ensure the service to all customers is fully integrated and we are meeting customers’ expectations
- Support the Talent Acquisition team in the administration of trading and senior recruitment within defined SLAs, including virtual and face-to-face interview scheduling, shortlisting for entry-level roles and advert posting where support is required
- Provide administrative support for value-add activity within Talent Acquisition, specifically within attraction
- Provide administrative support within TA Attraction with regards to a social media calendar and advertising materials including candidate packs
- Provide other administrative and project support to the wider Talent Acquisition team as necessary
- Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion is celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken
Application process
- End Date: November 20, 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been longstanding pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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