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We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Do you have proven experience of working within a recruitment operational environment?
Interested in providing an efficient service to customers by implementing effective resourcing strategies?
Are you experienced in leading and developing a team?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Job description
As the Resourcing Manager, and as part of the DfT Resourcing Delivery Senior Management Team, you will manage a team of professional Resourcing Partners who deliver an expert ‘value add’ Resourcing service for the Department for Transport (DfT), comprising of DfT’s 4 Executive Agencies and Central Department. You will ensure that the service provided is clearly aligned to individual DfT Business Unit priorities and to the Civil Service centralised HR model across-government.
You will invest time in developing and maintaining effective and collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders, both within and outside of the Department, engaging with Resourcing Leads, HR Business Partners, Senior Leaders and other delivery partners.
You will be responsible for delivery of the day to day service, as well as contributing to a demanding change programme to provide an Expert service within the DfT resourcing environment. You will provide your team with strong leadership, creating a culture of innovation, promoting the recruitment process, attraction channels and assessment methods to improve the candidate and hiring manager experience, targeting the right candidate base, with the right skills to deliver the strategic agenda across the whole of DfT.
As a positive role model, you will promote continuous learning for yourself, your team and the wider business, building capability, sharing best practice and providing advice and guidance to meet current and future resourcing priorities, empowering colleagues and customers in the field of recruitment and selection.
Included, but not limited to:
- Leading and managing your team of Resourcing Partners to deliver a professional expert talent acquisition service which is aligned to business priorities.
- Ensuring the most appropriate and cost-effective Resourcing channels and methods are used maximising return on investment.
- Building collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to streamline processes, reduce handoffs and reduce timelines for recruitment.
- Knowledge, experience and understanding of the specialist recruitment market, and of recruiting in a digital/technology context, or another specialist context.
- Ability to source, collate and utilise recruitment market data and talent insights using a range of tools and resources.
- Good decision-making skills: ability to understand and solve problems, make suggestions and expert recommendations based on data.
- Working in partnership with Resource Leads, HRBPs and key business stakeholders to ensure that the ongoing service and change initiatives meet their business needs.
- Networking within DfT and cross government; develop and maintain relationships by building on best practice and providing advice on resourcing activities and improvements.
- Creating opportunities to build capability within your team and work with key stakeholders to build capability across DFT.
- Working alongside Operational Leaders across the team to build overall capability of the operational team and provide an expert service and continuity of service to customers across the DfT family.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.
Person specification
About You
To be successful in this role you will have proven experience of working within a recruitment operational environment.
You will possess excellent communication skills and will have the ability to liaise and work with stakeholders of varying seniority levels.
You will be an effective leader and will have the motivation to coach and develop members of your team.
Experience within planning, scoping and running recruitment projects (including candidate management, attraction and assessment strategy) will be essential.
You will also be expected to having working knowledge of recruitment technology platforms (including Applicant Tracking Systems).
Additional Information
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.
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How to Apply
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role. Please tailor your CV to match the role and its responsibilities and within your Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Experience of working within a recruitment operational environment.
- Experience of working with recruitment technology platforms including Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Experience of where you have planned and ran successful recruitment projects (examples can include projects relating to candidate management, attraction and assessment strategy).
- Experience of collaborating and communicating with a wide range of stakeholders to drive service improvements and influence decision making.
- Leadership experience.
Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 1000 words.
Sift and Interview Dates
The sift is due to take place from 8th April 2024.
Interviews are likely to be held from 17th April 2024.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
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If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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