Student Placement - Staffing Administrator

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Student placement to join our team as a Staffing Administrator starting In August 2020 with an opportunity to work casually at Royal Ascot 2020 if successful candidate was interested and available. This role would be ideal if you have an interest in HR/Staffing within the hospitality and events sector. As the Staffing Administrator, you will be reporting into the senior staffing coordinator supporting on organising casual staff for race days and events at the racecourse and help to recruit new casual staff members to site and completing onboarding processes with them as well as liaising with our operational team to book staff. You will be required to work on racedays which can take place on weekends.

Our heritage is built on catering and hospitality experience and fuelled by our passion for exceptional food and service. For over 40 years we have been providing bespoke catering and hospitality services for sports stadia, racecourses, visitor, attractions, historic venues, major events and premium airline lounges. Recognised across the globe for hospitality, we help create exceptional moments at extraordinary events such as Royal Ascot, Tour de France and RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

For more information on the company see Careers in Sports and Leisure

Role Responsibility

• Attending recruitment fairs to promote casual roles
• Organise and assist assessment centres and interviewing candidates
• Communicate to our bank casual staff ensuring they are aware of the necessary information relating to the race day/event, e.g. areas of work, uniform standards, start dates, pay rates and parking
• Provide admin support to the staffing team – Processing casuals expenses, book staff for events and ensure staff are briefed prior to an event
• Build relationships and engage with our staff, ensuring we focus on staff returning to areas on a raceday
• Manage our team email inbox; answering our staff queries, which can include payroll queries, shift queries and referrals of new staff
• Liaise with our agency providers to inform them of allocations and give them the feedback on their teams post event
• To liaise with and support our operational team with staffing support.
• Help at staff check-in during race days, working on our helpdesk to ensure staff check in smoothly and efficiently – being the first face our staff see so ensuring a positive, happy environment

The Ideal Candidate

Student Placement – Someone who is interested in HR/Staffing within the events industry. Someone who is passionate, articulate, highly organised and self-motivated looking for their next challenge.

Package Description

Up to £20,000 + benefits

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.