Junior HR Assistant (HR-PXE-2026-174-GRAE)

Join our Human Resources People eXperience and Engagement team of HR Coordinators and HR Advisors to play a key role in shaping the employee journey at CERN, supporting a diverse community of students, graduates, and staff while navigating a dynamic and evolving environment, by designing and delivering tailored HR support, services, and policies. If you have an eye for detail and a genuine interest in people and HR matters, are keen to gain a deep understanding of HR processes, and develop your interpersonal skills, then this is the right position for you.

Your responsibilities:

• Ensure efficient, friendly, and reliable administration and communication for various HR processes and queries, supporting HR professionals and their client departments.
• Inform and advise student and graduate populations throughout their experience at CERN on several topics (regulations, integration, processes, etc.).
• Deliver engaging presentations on HR topics to a variety of audiences, both within and beyond the group.
• Master the swift administration of contractual actions for several populations.

Your profile:

• Experience dealing with discretion and confidentiality.
• Interest/experience with delivering presentations.
• Interest/experience with customer service roles.

Skills:

• Effective written and oral communication, adapting the style to different audiences.
• Working in teams, promoting a positive atmosphere through an optimistic and constructive attitude.
• Maintaning discretion and accountability.
• Delivering high-quality work on time and fulfilling expectations.
• Proactive attitude on taking on activities and tasks without prompting.
• MS Office knowledge.
• Presentation crafting and delivering skills.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Human Resources, Administration, related (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants with a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree are not eligible.