Recruitment Partner

Government Recruitment Service; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department is seeking a Recruitment Partner to join their Recruitment Hub. The role involves advising hiring managers, designing attraction strategies, and creating effective job adverts. Ideal candidates will have a background in recruitment, excellent relationship-building skills, and the ability to analyze market data. This position offers a dynamic work environment with numerous benefits, including flexible working options and a generous pension contribution.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment and talent acquisition.
• Ability to coach and advise hiring managers.
• Proficiency in designing assessment strategies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with hiring managers.
• Design effective attraction and assessment strategies.
• Create accurate job adverts.

Skills

Relationship building

Data analysis

Market knowledge

Coaching

Creativity in job adverts

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about recruitment and helping find the right talent to deliver their strategic goals?

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you make a real difference?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Responsibilities

We are looking for a Recruitment Partner to join the Promotion and Sourcing Team within the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Recruitment Hub. This dynamic team provides expert recruitment advice and support to hiring managers across the central department (DfTc) and executive agencies.

As a Recruitment Partner, you will coach and advise hiring managers by understanding their requirements and applying your knowledge of the market to design the most effective attraction and assessment strategy.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Build and maintain excellent relationships with hiring managers and business units to understand their recruitment and strategic requirements
• Use data and expert knowledge to design effective attraction and assessment strategies. This includes market data, diversity and inclusion data, and success rates of previous campaigns
• Create eye-catching and accurate jobs adverts that will attract the right candidates for the role
• For difficult to fill roles, build and utilise your networks to proactively source the best candidates
• Support hiring managers throughout the recruitment and onboarding processes, ensuring that they know what to do by providing relevant guidance and training material.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.