Due to continued growth and expansion, DEA is looking for a proactive and organised People and Talent Coordinator to work seamlessly across both the People (HR) and Talent Acquisition functions.
The successful candidate will play an important role in executing end-to-end recruitment coordination, HR system management, contractual administration, and employer branding initiatives to support the company’s continued growth and deliver a world-class employee experience.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Contract Management: Issue, and manage employment contracts, offer letters and contract variations with high attention to detail.
- HRIS Administration: Maintain and update accurate employee data and records within the HR system, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.
- Onboarding & Offboarding: Assist with pre-employment checks, right-to-work verifications, equipment setup coordination, and onboarding/offboarding workflows.
- General HR & Inbox Management: Manage People/Talent inboxes, acting as a point of contact for day-to-day employee and candidate queries.
- Interview Guide Production: Collaborate with hiring managers to create, standardise, and produce role-specific, competency-based interview guides.
- Psychometric Testing: Coordinate, send and track candidate psychometric assessments and share with hiring teams.
- Sourcing & Outreach: Assist the Talent team with conducting targeted searches on LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and professional networks to identify active and passive candidates for open roles across DEA Group.
- Interview Coordination: Schedule interviews, coordinate calendars, and liaise with candidates, Talent Acquisition Specialists and Hiring Managers.
- Social Media & Content: Create, post, and manage engaging job advertisements and employer branding content across LinkedIn, social media channels, and recruitment platforms.
- Brand Alignment: Ensure all talent-facing content promotes company culture, aligns with DEA's employer brand, and effectively showcases career opportunities.
- Recruitment Events: Build events calendar for the year ahead. Attending and supporting industry recruitment events and career fairs as required.
Technical Experience & Qualifications
- Proven experience in HR administration, talent sourcing, recruitment coordination, or a dual HR/TA support role.
- Hands-on experience issuing employment contracts, managing HR systems (HRIS), and utilising Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Familiarity with administering candidate psychometric testing tools and producing structured interview guides.
- Experience creating engaging content and job advertisements for social media platforms and job boards.
- Demonstrable experience identifying candidate profiles with specific technical skills, qualifications, certifications, and industry experience.
- Professional accreditation in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (e.g., CIPD Level 3) is highly desirable.
Skills Profile
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to organise workload effectively and switch smoothly between time-sensitive recruitment and HR administration tasks.
- High attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities.
- High confidentiality and strong interpersonal skills when liaising with employees, hiring managers and candidates.
- Proactive, resourceful & results oriented.
- Strong Stakeholder Management & Team Collaboration.
- Experience within the aviation industry is desirable but not essential.
About
DEA and our sister company ESAO are a world leading specialist technology-led provider of complex aerial data acquisition services. A pioneer in airborne data gathering, DEA/ESAO use ground-breaking techniques and the most advanced and innovative technologies in the industry to help you answer complex questions and make informed decisions in real time.
Skills Required
- Previous experience in talent sourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition, or HR administration
- Experience sourcing candidates for technical, professional, specialist, and hard-to-fill roles
- Experience identifying candidates with specific technical skills, qualifications, certifications, licenses, and industry experience
- Experience reviewing CVs and applications to assess suitability
- Experience creating, posting, and managing job advertisements across LinkedIn, job boards, recruitment websites, and social media platforms
- Experience using an Applicant Tracking System and LinkedIn Recruiter
- Experience maintaining accurate candidate records and recruitment documentation
- Experience supporting recruitment administration, interview coordination, and pre-employment checks
- Experience working with Talent Acquisition Specialists, Leads, and Hiring Managers to deliver technical recruitment requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organization and time management skills
- High attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple vacancies and priorities
- Confidentiality and professionalism
- Proactive, resourceful, and results-oriented approach
- Strong stakeholder management and team collaboration skills
- Aviation industry experience
What We Do
DEA is a world leading technology-led provider of specialised aerial data acquisition services. Specialised Operations DEA delivers bespoke airborne solutions using their proprietary technology, real time connectivity and operational expertise combining senior military and commercial aviation experience to provide a class- leading innovative and agile response to the most demanding requirement. This combination forms the basis of enduring partnerships with our customers. Leading Technology DEA’s technical systems team create the soft and hard ability quickly to merge differing complex sensor technologies and technical standards, to deliver industry-leading operational flexibility and capabilities within competitive time and cost constraints. DEA's Mission Management System consolidates all required data and functionality into one easy to use platform enabling better analysis and outcomes. Engineering services DEA provides reliable and robust aircraft management, maintenance, modification & technical integration and parts services that are designed to keep their own fleet and our customers’ aircraft airborne and safe. All services and approvals are compliant with regulators including the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). DEA's services include: • Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) • Aerial survey • Specialist commercial air transport • Flight calibration and flight path validation.
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