People Experience Assistant, Geneva, Switzerland

What you'll do

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.

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Your profile

• Experience dealing with discretion and confidentiality.
• Interest/experience with delivering presentations.
• Interest/experience with customer service roles.
• Your studies focused on Human Resources, Administration, related.

Your skills

• Effective written and oral communication, adapting the style to different audiences.
• Effective written and oral communication, adapting the style to different audiences.
• 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.

Ideal start date: 01/09/2026

Contract duration (in months): 24

Job flexibility: Hybrid

Global Benefits at CERN

• A monthly net stipend of 4687 Swiss Francs per month.
• 30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure.
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health insurance scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Family, child and infant monthly allowances depending on your individual circumstances.
• A relocation package (installation grant and travel expenses) depending on your individual circumstances.
• Possibility to extend your contract up to 36 months.
• On-the-job and formal training including language classes.

Let's get you ready

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State. Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani and Lithuanian nationals for positions with a 2026 start date, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of 2 years of professional experience since graduation in a technical or administrative field and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma or a shorter non-university degree. You can't hold a bachelor's degree, master's degree or PhD.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.

You will need these documents to complete your application

• Your CV (English or French)
• A copy of your most relevant diploma or a certificate of achievement from your school (if you don't yet have your paper diploma)
• Any document you consider relevant to your application