Harrison Drury is a market leading Firm of solicitors with offices across the North West servicing both business and private clients. We have been successful for a fifth time placing in the Top 100 Best Companies to work for in the UK.  

We are an employer of choice because we have a culture that challenges the conventional law firm approach and focusses our energy on getting great results for our clients, while attracting and developing brilliant people.

The overall purpose of this role is to provide an internal recruitment function for all recruitment needs across the business. The recruitment coordinator will provide the complete end to end recruitment life cycle and process, ensuring all efforts are made to maintain a short time to hire, and a healthy pipeline of talent for future roles. This role will sit within our HR team and work closely with HR professionals to create a joined up people centric approach to talent attraction, retention and engagement.

The role:

• Proactive approach to building relationships with our internal teams to understand their current and future recruitment needs
• Dealing with recruitment enquiries and needs as quickly as possible
• Working with hiring managers to create accurate job descriptions and job adverts for all roles
• Advertising and promoting live vacancies on our website, and other media platforms
• Building and maintaining relationships with future talent to create an effective talent bank enabling efficient filling of roles in short time scales
• Headhunting and making direct approaches, as required, proactively seeking out suitable candidates
• Ensuring effective relationships with our recruitment agencies, agreeing and reviewing terms
• Representing the firm at local careers fairs, to reflect our brand and culture when meeting potential future talent
• Reviewing applications and providing them to hiring managers
• Providing appropriate feedback to candidates / agencies
• Making arrangements for interviews and attend as required
• Creating and administering appropriate competency assessments that demonstrate candidate suitability for the role, aligned to the firm’s vales
• Recording and tracking the applicant journey in line with our policies and procedure
• Supporting process review by providing suggestions and improvements to the hiring process and associated policies and procedures
• Ensuring compliance in all activities with UK Employment Law, governing bodies and the firm’s policies and procedures
• Providing regular update reports to keep hiring managers / divisional heads up to date with recruitment activity.
• Ensuring recruitment best practice is promoted across the business
• Working with HR to ensure a complimentary, forward thinking approach to addressing skills shortages in the industry.
• Assisting with internal development programmes

Skills and experience:

• In-house recruitment experience, preferably in legal / professional services
• Use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams)
• Digital marketing campaigns
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisation and communication skills
• Stakeholder management skills