Resourcing (Associates)

• Associate interview scheduling: Schedule interviews for potential Associates that have been identified by Resourcing / Ops / Recruitment team with the appropriate interviewers. Ensure internal only parallel invites contain the right materials for the interviewer. Where relevant ensure any advanced tasks requiring preparation or take-based assessments are sent out as per the schedule.
• Recruitment system: Ensure all Associate profiles who go to a first round interview are on Workable with comments and feedback captured accordingly. There will be some backward-looking data capture and clean-up to get the system up to date in the first few months.
• Associate tracker: Own and champion the Associate Resourcing tracker and ensure the CMaP system reflects the correct data – both in terms of level of detail and accuracy. Partner with Resourcing and Ops to update or correct the system as required.
• Associate management: Work with Resourcing consultant to reach out to Associates periodically and as agreed to understand availability and stay in touch.
• Associate contracts: Administer associate agreement contracts with input from HR consultant or CPO as required

Reporting and communications

• Communications: Help Recruitment Manager to draft high quality, compelling updates to the SLT and wider leadership team regarding Permanent and Associate hiring
• Reporting: Leveraging the Workable system as well as Associate tracker / CMaP, report on progress against key Recruiting and Associate metrics every week and month

People Team support and function coverage

Due to the nature of where the business is given high growth and changing priorities, you will be flexible in the scope of your support based on wider People team priorities, leaning in where needed from an administrative perspective. This includes but is not limited to the following:

• People team scheduling: Ensure all weekly People team meetings (joint team and 1:1s) are scheduled with room bookings secured.
• People systems: Help to maintain the HR system and the Learning Management system as needed if other team members are on leave.
• Simple HR requests: When the People Advisor is out, support the CPO with basic HR processes and documents such as BPSS (screening), offer letters, contract administration, acceptance letters, etc.
• Learning session scheduling: Ensure learning session logistics are sorted and correctly reflected in the LMS
• New joiner onboarding: Ensuring induction sessions are planned and the rooms are ready, also helping to welcome colleagues on their first day and support associated logistics.

Mandatory

• Skills in Microsoft Excel to facilitate reporting and basic analysis of data
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Understanding of, and rigour in following, structured recruitment and HR processes end-to-end – meticulous about knowing which step comes next and making sure each is completed in the right order.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and to build good rapport and help to deliver an excellent candidate experience
• Confidence and tact to follow up with, and where needed respectfully challenge, busy senior stakeholders on their availability – securing interview slots and keeping candidate processes moving to time
• Competent using Claude or other AI tools to make processes more efficient and effective

Highly desirable

• Educated to a degree level, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with Workable or other Recruitment and HR systems (Sage HR highly desirable)

Our Values

These attributes form part of the four CF values and associated behaviours that apply to all staff and create a point of commonality. Upholding these values and behaviours is critical to our being the diverse and inclusive team that makes CF a great place to work.

Be connected

• We are known, we are trusted
• We meet our clients on their terms, in their environment
• We develop first-hand understanding
• We are reliable
• We socialise with colleagues and clients
• We recognise individual strengths and talents
• We get to know people inside out
• We cultivate a network

Uphold standards

• Committed to our clients, professional in our approach
• We know what consulting excellence looks like
• We adopt and adhere to best-in-class approaches
• We seek diversity and understand its value
• We leverage the talent of the CF team and our clients
• We act with integrity and preserve confidentiality
• We manage client and company resources cost-effectively
• We hold each other to account for the standards we agree

Inspire change

• Respected experts, sparking conviction
• We are knowledge seekers
• We hunt for innovation and translate it into practice
• We deal in solutions
• We collaborate and expect to contribute our point of view
• We understand conflict is essential and we face it
• We are passionate about our impact and the value we create
• We build a positive reputation for ourselves and for CF

Create the future

• Embrace fear, aspire to be better
• We believe we all grow with effort, learning and persistence
• We celebrate success with pride
• We learn and adapt when we lose
• We spot and create opportunities
• We act fast and mobilise others
• We take responsibility for ourselves
• We develop each other through apprenticeship and mentoring

Flexible working

We follow a hybrid working model that balances in-person connections and remote work to drive exceptional client impact. We enjoy working in person together with clients and colleagues and work where clients need us to be.

In supporting flexibility and remote working, team members can work from home one day per week as standard. Additionally, we offer 44 remote working days per year which can be used to top up your working from home days and enable you to work from home up to two days per week-subject to client needs. Alternatively, you could use your allowance in blocks to