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

Job Description

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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 26.07.2026 at 23:59 CEST.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job flexibility: Hybrid

Target start date: 01-September-2026

Job reference: HR-PXE-2026-174-GRAE

Field of work: Support Services (Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement)

Benchmark job: 5B0130 - Human Resources Support Officer

Global Benefits

• A monthly stipend of 4687 Swiss Francs per month (tax free).
• 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.

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Every day, we face exciting new challenges and opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge research that shapes our understanding of the universe. We meet these challenges through the diverse perspectives within our teams, ensuring every contribution is valued and driving our shared sense of inclusion and purpose. Diversity is a core value of CERN since its foundation, and it remains central to our mission and continued success.

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