Assistant HR Officer

Job Title: Assistant HR Officer

Location: Stevenage

Salary Range: £26,427 per annum (pro rata for part time)

Hours:37 per week – part time considered

Contract type: 6 month contract

Directorate:Resources

About the team

Do you enjoy working in a busy team and have great organisation and customer service skills?

We are looking for an Assistant HR Officer to join our established in-house HR recruitment team.

Our team delivers a recruitment service across Hertfordshire County Council to ensure that Hiring Managers have the best resourcing solutions and attraction strategies to appoint high calibre candidates.

About the role

We are a busy team therefore, we’ll need you to be extremely well organised, able to work under pressure, respond quickly and manage conflicting priorities.

You will assist the HR Officer to deliver an excellent customer service by providing efficient and timely transactional processing of pre-employment checks and candidate management through our applicant tracking system.

With onboarding experience and highly developed interpersonal skills you will be confident to advise hiring managers on policy and best practice.

You will deliver excellent customer service and be able to ensure work is carried out to a high standard within agreed KPIs.

You will need to be confident using Microsoft packages, including Excel, and have the ability to use your own initiative, constantly prioritising your own work to meet deadlines and demonstrating a pro-active approach to your workload management.

You are required to work in the office at least once a week.

About you

Essential:

Experience of completing employment compliance clearances

Demonstrable experience of using IT systems

Significant experience in customer service

Competent ability to use Microsoft Office

Demonstrably strong time management skills

Strong communication skills with a range of stakeholders

Ability to follow agreed policies and processes, ensuring these are adhered to

Ability to deliver to deadlines and escalate as appropriate

Ability to work accurately and independently on a large volume and variety of activities and able to prioritise

An eye for accuracy and attention to detail

Desirable

* Knowledge and understanding of HR and HR best practice

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is Level 6. Please locate the job profile here:

Interview Date: 24 September 2026 - in person

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

We are changingHertfordshire County Councilis undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.

LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit

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English FluencyThe ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required).