Department for Work and Pensions Hiring for Lead Talent Acquisition Manager Job at Leeds, England Full Time

142167

£49,171 – £64,656

The salary range is from £49,171 – £59,589 (National) £54,067 – £64,656 (Inner London).

Permanent

DWP – People and Capability

Communications / Marketing
Customer Insight
Digital
Human Resources

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

1

Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

Civil Servants applying on promotion will usually be appointed to the salary minimum or within 10% of existing salary.

Are you passionate about utilising your resourcing knowledge to get the best people possible into our highest priority digital roles?

Are you a proven leader who prides yourself on building high performing and engaged teams, using data and insight to drive performance? If so, we have an exciting opportunity that we’d like to share with you.

As the Talent Acquisition Lead you will have a growing team of direct reports who recruit into digital roles, cultivate marketing insight to drive a culture of engagement, high performance and outstanding results.

You will need to have experience of working with niche and hard to recruit roles within challenging market conditions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a Department that touches the lives of citizens the length and breadth of the UK. More than ever, DWP is playing a critical role in supporting citizens through the economic impact of covid-19 – both into work and progressing within work. DWP has an ambitious programme of welfare reform, and the way in which we deliver our services to over 20 million customers a year.

We aspire to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications to help us reflect the citizens we serve. We promote “I can be me in DWP” to help us create a place to work where everyone feels they can be valued and respected while being themselves. We are guided by our departmental values: we care, we deliver, we work together, we adapt and we value everyone. They sit at the heart of everything we do and understanding how we live up to them helps us learn for the future. It is an incredibly exciting time to work in the Department for Work and Pensions.

Our DWP People, Capability and Place (PCandP) team, which brings together HR, Capability, Learning and Talent and Estates and Workplace Transformation expertise, is one of the largest people-related functions in the UK (over 1700 people) and our strong focus on team working, strategic influencing and developing professional capability will ensure that you have plenty of opportunities to develop your own networks and career whilst making a real difference in delivering the business strategy.

This role sits within the People Services and Resourcing (PSR) directorate within the PC and P Group. The role of the PSR directorate is to support DWP putting the right people, in the right place at the right time. This is achieved through collaboration by applying judgement, vision, management and leadership.

You will report directly to the Lead for Specialist and Functional Resourcing.

The role includes but is not limited to the job description below:

To lead a team of experts in candidate attraction, providing innovative and cost-effective solutions for critical digital talent; working with digital colleagues to build and maintain effective talent pools.

Accountable for delivering direct sourcing and attraction strategies to be deployed across various channels, effectively tracking and optimising them to drive improvements in time, cost and quality of hires.

Working with the wider Resourcing team, develop leading selection tools and processes so that candidates experience the highest quality professional selection process to differentiates DWP Digital from its competitors.

Provide metrics and analytics to drive the performance of the Talent Acquisition Management Team in terms of volume, time, cost, quality of hires.

Develop strong networks internally and externally in order to ensure regular market intelligence and that the resourcing strategy is aligned to the changing needs and business strategy.

Co-lead on training the wider recruitment team in the proactive management of search activities.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Responsibilities

Key Skills

A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate the key skills listed below :

You will be able to demonstrate experience gained within a complex organisation where you have had to plan and deliver sourcing and attraction for high priority niche “hard to fill” roles, using a range of sources and resources, in order to identify issues, make improvements and influence outcomes and be able to draw on expertise as required to provide solutions at pace.

You will have experience leading and managing a team within a complex organisation and will be able to demonstrate how you built and measured the success of the team.

You will have good stakeholder management skills gained within a complex organisation with an ability to build trust-based relationships with a wide range of demanding and diverse stakeholders; With the ability to constructively and effectively challenge and promote and influence a culture that encourages the highest quality professional selection processes.

You will have experience in providing metrics and analytics to drive the performance of your team within a large sourcing environment that allows you to influence and develop flexible approaches to resourcing strategy.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving