Talent Acquisition Administrator - 6 Month FTC

Company Overview

PA believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, it creates opportunity from complexity.

Its interdisciplinary teams combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Clients adapt and transform, and together PA achieves enduring results.

PA has over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists, with deep expertise across consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Role Overview

Join PA’s Talent Acquisition (TA) function to support high-impact leadership hiring. This role is primarily in the Senior Hires team and may support other teams at times.

Why Consider Joining PA?

• Be at the centre of PA’s hiring engine, supporting high-impact leadership hiring, primarily in the Senior Hires team.
• Join a dynamic and impact-focused TA function of approximately 35 people, and a community of other TA administrators.
• Help further improve senior hiring processes and initiatives.

What You Can Expect

• Hybrid working: minimum 2 days per week in the London office to be with the team, with flexibility to come in when required for candidates.
• Coordinate lengthy senior hires recruitment processes from interview through to verbal offer.
• Greet candidates in person for key interviews and provide a personable, 5-star interview experience across phone, email, Teams, and in-person.
• Manage candidate and hiring manager activities to ensure smooth, timely processes in the ATS (SmartRecruiters), including across different time zones.
• Handle interview logistics, including room bookings and feedback sessions.
• Use Excel and data to lead reporting and drive process improvements.
• Raise and track purchase orders for agencies and search firms.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements

• Comfortable using an ATS and Excel in previous roles.
• Experience in a fast-paced TA admin (or similar) role supporting high-volume recruitment processes.
• Highly organised with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to quickly prioritise (and re-prioritise) workload as needed.
• Clear communication and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Experience using systems and data to improve processes.

About You

• Team-oriented with a collaborative approach.
• Comfortable thriving in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive problem-solver who communicates promptly and clearly (e.g., prefers to call to resolve issues instead of waiting).
• Enjoys data and improving processes.
• Committed to providing a 5-star candidate experience.

PA encourages applications even if you feel you do not meet every requirement, as it understands some roles may be skill-gap challenging.

Additional Information

Some UK roles at PA Consulting require UK security clearance. All PA people must undergo background checks and achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

Applicants should only apply if they meet the residency requirements (e.g., are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is a prerequisite for security clearance. If unsure, PA encourages applicants to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Life at PA

Life at PA focuses on how it enriches people’s working lives through access to unique people and growth opportunities, and purpose-led meaningful work. Its purpose guides how it works with clients and supports teams and communities to deliver insight and impact while solving complex challenges.

PA works to build a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, with a culture of inclusion and equality that helps everyone be their best self.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) — pro rata.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives.

Equal Opportunities & Adjustments

PA recruits, retains, rewards, and develops people based solely on abilities and contributions, without reference to protected characteristics or other human differences brought about by identity and experience. It welcomes applications from underrepresented groups.

If you need adjustments or accommodations for the recruitment process (at application or interview), contact email@protected.

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