This is an excellent opportunity to develop your HR career.
The role is based at our central site, Monday to Friday, between 08:00 and 17:00, for a minimum of 30 hours per week across four to five days.
Ideal start: Early December
What We Offer
- Fixed Term Contract (11 months)
- Full-time position within a supportive and friendly team (minimum 30 hours)
- Remuneration circa £28,000 per annum.
- There will be a four-month probationary period
What We are Looking For
- Proven administrative experience, ideally gained in HR, or similar environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Exceptional organisation skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Empathy, discretion and diplomacy when handling sensitive matters
- A calm and composed approach to challenging situations
Duties
This is a varied post with duties to include:
- Support recruitment by scheduling interviews, communicating with candidates, updating the Applicant Tracking System and liaising with recruiting managers.
- Maintain accurate employee records and enter data promptly into HR systems.
- Support onboarding, offboarding and related employee documentation.
- Handle telephone and email enquiries professionally, answering routine HR queries or escalating as needed.
- Coordinate interviews and room bookings, and support selection processes as required by the Director of HR.
- Conduct Right to Work checks in line with current UK immigration requirements.
Further details about this position can be found in the Further Particulars.
Interviews and appointment may proceed before closing date should some applicants prove to fulfil job criteria.
Employees' Benefits
- 25 days plus bank holidays annual entitlement (pro-rata for Part-time position)
- Extra day's holiday every two years
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Meal on duty if available (daily allowance)
- Uniform provided when required for the role
- Training and development opportunities
- Medicash health plan (after 3 months of employment)
- Recruitment incentive (1.5% of the starting salary of your referral)
- Social activities
How To Apply
To apply, you are required to register for each individual vacancy. In applying for this role, you will provide personal data which the College will process in accordance with its data protection obligations and its Data Protection Policy, Data protection resources section of the website.
Applications must be received by 12.00pm on Friday 23 October 2026.
Register For This Vacancy via the above 'Apply' button.
Contact
For general enquiries about working at Trinity Hall please call the HR Team on 01223 764660 or email jobs@trinhall.cam.ac.uk.
INTERVIEW
28/10/2026: afternoon
29/10/2026: morning
£28,000 plus pension and benefits
