Recruitment Manager

South Yorkshire Police; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

Generous annual leave allowance

Flexible working including flexitime &

Hybrid working for some roles

Job sharing/part-time working

Development and leadership courses

Employee Assistance Programme

Blue Light Card

Cycle to Work scheme

Sustainability and social contribution

Job summary

South Yorkshire Police is seeking a Recruitment Manager to lead high-volume recruitment campaigns across police officer, staff and volunteer roles. You will shape forward plans, manage a small team, and ensure delivery within budgets and workforce targets, with agile working and travel across the Force area.

The role requires CIPD Level 5 or equivalent, significant recruitment leadership experience, and strong stakeholder management with hiring managers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading high-volume recruitment campaigns in a fast-paced setting.
• Line management experience and working with hiring managers to drive campaigns.
• CIPD Level 5 qualification or close to completion; associate member status.
• Experience in police officer recruitment or regulated selection processes is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of high-volume recruitment campaigns, ensuring alignment with workforce requirements and budgets.
• Provide operational leadership to a small recruitment team, manage workloads and performance.
• Lead police officer promotion processes with fair, transparent and professional experience.
• Work with an agile approach, travelling across sites and providing flexible, hybrid working patterns.

Skills

Recruitment leadership

High-volume campaigns

Line management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

CIPD Level 5

CIPD membership

Job description

Job Description

Role: Recruitment Manager

District/Department: HR & Learning

Location: Carbrook, Sheffield

Salary: Band E, £38,169 - £43,668 per annum

Hours: 37 Hours Per Week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 8th November 2026

Are you an experienced recruitment professional with a strong track record of leading large-scale campaigns and delivering results in a fast-paced environment?

South Yorkshire Police is looking for a skilled and motivated Recruitment Manager to lead our recruitment and selection service. This is an opportunity to shape campaigns that attract talented people into a wide range of police officer, police staff, special constable and volunteer roles, while supporting the organisation's workforce plans and priorities.

Under the direction of the HR Operations Lead, you will lead the planning and delivery of high-volume and complex recruitment campaigns, ensuring activity is aligned with agreed workforce requirements, budgets and organisational priorities.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• You will maintain a forward recruitment and promotions plan, coordinate competing campaigns and dependencies, and use management information to monitor progress. You will identify risks at an early stage, provide constructive challenge and take appropriate recovery action to keep delivery on track.
• You will provide operational leadership to a small recruitment team, setting clear expectations, managing workloads and performance, and developing the team's capability and resilience. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you will be responsible for the quality, timeliness and integrity of the recruitment and promotions service.
• The role also has responsibility for leading police officer promotion processes, ensuring that they are well governed, consistently delivered and provide candidates with a fair, transparent and professional experience.
• The role will work on an agile approach, including working from the HR & Learning base at Force Headquarters, Carbrook, with our customers across the Force area and working from home. The position will be Force wide covering areas across South Yorkshire therefore individuals must be flexible and be able to travel across sites as required.

Skills and experience:

In line with the essential criteria as defined in the role profile, the successful candidate will therefore have previous experience of working in a generalist HR function and will be educated to CIPD Level 5 and an associate member, or due to complete their CIPD qualification within the next 6 months. In addition, the individual will have significant, recent experience of leading high-volume and/or complex recruitment campaigns in a fast-paced environment, with accountability for delivery against challenging timescales and workforce targets.

In addition, the successful candidate will have line management experience and experience of working with hiring managers and key stakeholders to ensure the success of each recruitment campaign.

Experience of police officer recruitment or promotions, regulated selection processes, Oracle Cloud Recruitment, recruitment dashboards, attraction campaigns or positive-action initiatives would be advantageous.

What We Offer:

• A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
• Generous annual leave allowance
• A wide range of family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Flexible working arrangements including flexitime and hybrid working for some roles
• Job sharing/part-time working for some roles
• A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust (FIT)
• A comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
• Employee Assistance Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice
• Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to Work scheme
• A commitment to embracing the principles of sustainability, including reducing our negative environmental impacts, and enhancing our positive social contribution
• Membership of the Sports and Social Club
• Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks

We are a Disability Confident Employer and guarantee an interview for all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

South Yorkshire Police's Key Values:

At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do: Fairness, Integrity & Trust (FIT). The attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter Ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables South Yorkshire Police to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been categorised as a Hybrid role.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a South Yorkshire Police building or from home. Working patterns will be agreed with your line manager, taking into account business need.

Appearance & Standards:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain professional standards in dress and appearance.

Candidates are permitted to have tattoos visible on the hands, neck, forearms, or face whilst on duty provided these are not considered discriminatory, offensive, or inappropriate. Any tattoos will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Residency and Nationality Requirements:

Applicants must meet the minimum checkable history criteria. This is a vetting requirement and applies to individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. You must have resided in the UK for 5 continuous years immediately prior to application. If you have been abroad during the last 5 years while serving in the UK Armed Forces or working for the UK Government, your application will still be considered.

Please note that South Yorkshire Police is unable to provide visa sponsorship.

Vetting:

The vetting level for this role is Management Vetting (MV).

Internal candidates, if successful your vetting will be reviewed and uplifted. For further information please contact the Vetting Unit on [e-mail]

Contact Details:

For further information about the role, please contact: Rachael Greenfield, HR Operations Lead on 07464983758.

For queries about the application process, please contact [e-mail]

Next steps in the recruitment process

It is anticipated that the selection process will take place from week commencing 16th November 2026. This date is subject to change, and further details will be sent to shortlisted candidates.

Pre-employment Checks:

Should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, a number of pre-employment checks are required. Depending on the role, these may include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance, and attendance check.

South Yorkshire Police sets absence criteria of no more than 33 days and / or 5 separate occurrences over the last 3 years. However, this will not be considered until pre-employment check stage. Any period of sickness absence which is as a direct result of a pregnancy will be discounted. Consideration will be given to discounting periods of sickness absence which are disability related.

Diversity & Inclusion:

We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation which provides fair and equal consideration to all of our applicants. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions, or beliefs and of neurodivergence.

We're proud to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Different backgrounds and experiences make us stronger.

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on [e-mail]

Internal Candidates:

You must ensure that you apply through the internal jobs board (Opportunity Marketplace via Oracle).

Documents to Review:

• Police Staff Recruitment Vetting Handbook
• Application Guidance and Tips
• South Yorkshire Police FIT Values

View our recruitment video:

https://youtu.be/2dGn5qti7_c