Full time – Fixed term contract

Remote working with some travel to Central London

£28,000 per annum. Start date in January 2025, for 6 months minimum.

About Rare

Rare is a multi-award-winning diversity company. We’re all about equality. All our products and services strive to create a fairer society, where people from every background get a fair chance to succeed.

Through our award-winning products and services, we're changing who gets hired and how. We're helping organisations to be smarter, to look not just at someone's achievements, but at the context in which those achievements occurred. We're helping employers look more like the communities they serve.

We use a data driven approach to build digital products to ensure our clients hire the best graduates, from diverse backgrounds. Over 120 blue chip employers use our products. We have contextualised over 1.4 million job applications. Our contextualised recruitment system increases hires from disadvantaged backgrounds by over 50%. We have supported over 400 Black African and Caribbean students to secure offers from Oxbridge.

The Role

As a Candidate Coordinator, you will be part of the Attraction and Development team. You will do everything on the list below, and more besides. The good news is that we’ll train you to do all of this to a very high standard. The skills you acquire here will serve you for life.

Main responsibilities for working with students and graduates (our candidates):

• Conducting 1-1 coaching sessions with allocated candidates, offering them online application support, including answering queries, and encouraging accountability.
• Giving mock interviews, workshops, and support with a wide range of assessment centre tasks.
• Telling students about opportunities for programmes with our clients and encouraging them to apply.
• Booking candidates in for sessions with our external expert coaches.
• Answering the phone and responding to general candidate queries.
• Dealing with requests from our clients.
• Helping with event and programme logistics.
• Taking part in role-plays and practice group tasks.
• Carrying out interviews for some of our development programmes.
• Data entry and updating of our database.
• Attending client events, and supervising candidate visits.

Most of all, you’ll be making a difference for the better. If you join Rare you will go to sleep at night with a full heart, and you will wake up each morning and actually feel excited about coming in to work.

About You

The key to succeed in this role is to be highly conscientious with high personal standards of integrity and organisation. You must also be a skilled communicator, be willing to learn and be flexible in your approach to adapt and prioritise effectively.

We are looking for someone with the ability to:

• Understand Rare’s social purpose and share our values.
• Be skilled at building relationships with candidates, clients, and other members of staff.
• Be highly conscientious and have high standards of integrity and organisation.
• Be keen to learn – you will need to understand how our business works, what our clients do, and who they want to hire.
• Be flexible – the needs of the business change rapidly.
• Be commercial and focused on delivering results.
• Be tough and resilient. This is great work and it can be intense.
• Be comfortable talking to people of any gender, ethnic or social background.
• Take feedback well.

Experience and education requirements for the role:

• A university degree of at least a 2:1 in any subject. (essential)
• Excellent writing skills. (essential)
• Work experience of almost any kind is valuable, especially if it involves customer or client-facing work. (desirable)
• An understanding of a successful grad process. (essential)
• Excel skills. Please state basic, intermediate or advanced. (desirable)

What we offer

At Rare, flexibility is at the core of what we do. We work remotely with a monthly team meeting in Central London to share knowledge and skills, and to strengthen our working relationships. All our employees have access to workspaces around London, or in some cases close to their homes, whenever they choose to use them.

We are a friendly bunch, filled with some of the most intelligent, passionate and warm people you will ever meet. If you want to be inspired by the people around you, then this is the place for you!

Our current benefits package includes pension scheme, live and on-demand online Yoga classes, Christmas Eve off and more.

We’re small. You’ll have access to the MD and the other directors. Many of our team are former candidates or clients and have worked in several different areas of our business, honing their expertise and forging their own career path.

If you are passionate about giving back and making an impact, we want to hear from you, whatever your background.

At Rare we are committed to equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, and we do not condone discrimination based on any of the protected characteristics. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

To be eligible to work at Rare you must hold the Right to Work in the UK, this should cover the entire contract period.

To apply

Submit your CV (2 pages max) and a brief cover letter explaining who you are, why you care about what we do, and why you think you’d be good at the job. Please include in the cover letter, your availability for interviews and how long you are available to work if successful. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.