Recruitment And Resourcing Partner

We’re looking for an experienced and passionate recruitment professional to join our team

In Kirklees recruitment is fast paced and varied. There have been some massive developments in recent years; we have a market leading ATS, careers site, a refreshed policy statement and toolkit, greater automation of deloyment and Management Information to support an intelligence driven function – we’re not standing still, this job is a chance to keep those developments moving forward. You’ll focus on helping the organisation approach it’s recruitment needs in a modern, flexible and inclusive way, whether that be through deployment, internal advertising or external recruitment.

 Areas of responsibility include:

• Advice and guidance on recruitment across the organisation
• keeping up to date with best practice and internal and external factors affecting recruitment.
• Ensuring recruitment practices meet legislative, regulatory and sector specific requirements
• Lead on vacancy management arrangements
• Oversight of and reporting on deployment activity
• Operational contract management of the ATS
• Management of the team
• Internal and external stakeholder management

As the council expert you’ll need a depth of understanding and experience of recruitment as well as an understanding of broader resourcing and HR, a passion for Recruitment and the value it adds to the organisation is critical. Ideally you’ll have local government or public sector experience. Familiar with market challenges and opportunities you’ll understand the impact in the context of Kirklees Council and the wide range of recruitment needs.

You’ll need a creative, outcomes and solutions focused approach with the ability to engage across the organisation and beyond. The ability to keep up to date with fast paced agendas and make practice and process changes to reflect changes and continuously improve is key. You’ll work well in a deadline driven environment and be able to adapt with resilience to the changing needs of the organisation. You’ll lead a team so great communication and people management skills are a must.

We work in a hybrid way with great office space designed to meet our hybrid needs. Collaboration is important so you’ll usually be office based with your team a couple of times a week with flexibility to work from home for the rest.

You’ll join a passionate and supportive team of experts in all areas of talent with readily available peer and line management support.

For a discussion about this job please contact Michelle Moss at michelle.moss@kirklees.gov.uk

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 9th July 2024.