Staffing Coordinator 6 month fixed term contract (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

• Manage day-to-day staffing activities generating Position IDs and ensuring all updates are completed promptly and accurately.
• Maintain staffing systems and data monitoring quality investigating discrepancies and implementing improvements to ensure a reliable and up to date single source of truth
• Track and flag contractor end dates extensions and approval workflows.
• Support resource related communications role approvals and internal transfer arrangements.
• Produce regular MI reports to support leadership reviews workforce planning role prioritisation and decision making including insights on skills gaps and contractor usage.
• Build and maintain spreadsheets to visualise workforce trends and provide clear actionable insights.
• Work with Head of Staffing to drive strategic initiatives forward capacity tool planning evolving Genomics England.
• Maintain audit trails and ensure resourcing decisions are recorded accurately and transparently.
• Reviewing JIRA procurement tickets relating to resourcing requests and report to Head of Staffing.
• Managing access requests for third party contractors.
• Supporting workforce planning activity via liaising with broader People team.
• Carrying out ad-hoc requests from the Head of Staffing.
• Participating in projects and initiatives to support continuous improvement in the People space.
• Know and understand the meaning behind our Genomics England Behaviours (read them here Culture Genomics England) and embody them in all aspects of your role.

Qualifications :

Whilst we appreciate any suitable or relevant qualifications it is your experience that we are most interested in. 

Additional Information :

Closing date for applications: 9th January 2026

Salary from: 38000

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself but in order to support our people were continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days holiday plus bank holidays additional leave for long service and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements flexible working enhanced maternity paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10% however you can contribute more if you wish) Life Assurance (3x salary) and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets support for training and certifications and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership a free Headspace account and access to an Employee Assistance Programme eye tests flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability ethnicity gender gender identity religion sexual orientation or social background. 

Genomics Englands policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people regardless of age disability gender identity or reassignment marital or civil partnership status being pregnant or recently becoming a parent race religion or beliefs sex or sexual orientation length of service whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination harassment victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Culture

We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together deliver on our outcomes celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture Genomics England

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to however some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g. lab teams reception team. 

Our teams and squads have and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time