Strategic Resourcing Lead

Government Recruitment Service; Leeds; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the United Kingdom seeks a Strategic Resourcing Lead to shape and implement resourcing strategies for the future workforce. The role demands strong skills in stakeholder management, collaboration, and strategic planning to drive successful recruitment initiatives. You will be tasked with developing workforce demand plans, leading strategic resourcing activities, and managing skilled worker visa sponsorship. Ideal candidates will have a results-focused mindset and experience in talent acquisition. Flexible working and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in shaping resourcing strategies.
• Ability to turn strategic insights into practical plans.
• Strong focus on delivering tangible outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement priority resourcing strategies.
• Work collaboratively to develop a workforce demand plan.
• Translate the demand plan into a meaningful recruitment delivery plan.
• Lead strategic resourcing activity for the Places for Growth programme.
• Manage skilled worker visa sponsorship activity.

Skills

Stakeholder influencing

Collaboration

Strategic planning

Results-oriented

Talent acquisition

Job description

Can you turn strategy into practical plans that deliver real results?

Do you have experience shaping resourcing strategies for the future workforce?

Can you influence stakeholders and build partnerships to drive success?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This role offers the opportunity to directly shape the Department for Transport’s (DfT) workforce of the future, turning strategic insight into tangible action, influencing senior leaders, and delivering real impact across a high‑profile government department.

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 and 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!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfTc.

It’s an exciting time for strategic workforce planning at the DfT. Our strategic workforce plan is a living document, setting out what we need to do differently to ensure our workforce has the right capacity and capability today and for the future.

As Strategic Resourcing Lead, you will be responsible for identifying, shaping, and implementing priority resourcing strategies that address the risks and opportunities highlighted in our workforce plan.

We are looking for someone who can turn strategy into action, working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external partners to develop practical plans and drive their delivery at pace. Tangible outcomes matter in this role, so you will need to be results‑focused and action‑oriented.

You may have experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or wider HR, but most importantly, you will have the ability to shape resourcing strategies that make a real impact on the Department’s workforce now and in the future.

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

• Shaping and managing practical delivery plans that implement priority resourcing strategies, engaging the business to get buy‑in and cooperation and working with external delivery partners and internal delivery stakeholders to ensure that plans are realistic and achievable.
• Working with the strategic workforce planning team and the business to develop and maintain a workforce demand plan, setting out resourcing needs for the next 6‑12 months by volume, profession and business area.
• Translating the demand plan into a meaningful recruitment delivery plan, moving us away from tactical reactive recruitment for singular vacancies, and towards anticipatory and joined‑up forward‑looking campaigns that have greater impact in the market and that are more efficient to run. This could include volume campaigns, brigaded campaigns and marketing approaches and involve partnering with professions or business areas to deliver. The recruitment delivery itself will still be run by our recruitment service team.
• Leading on strategic resourcing activity relating to our Places for Growth programme of work, re‑balancing more of our workforce from London to outside of London.
• Leading on skilled worker visa sponsorship activity on behalf of DfTc, issuing certificates of sponsorship, assuring compliance and, as soon as is practical, outsourcing this activity to an external specialist partner and managing the supplier relationship.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

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.