JOB SUMMARY

Can you develop strong relationships with stakeholders while taking pride in delivering excellent customer service?
Do you have experience of working in a recruitment function?
Have you got experience of working in a fast-paced team and have the ability to effectively prioritise workloads?
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.

Find out more about what it’s like working at the Department for Transport:

• Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Capability and Compliance Team within the Department for Transport (DfT) Resourcing Group supports hiring managers across the central department and executive agencies (DVLA, DVSA, VCA, MCA, ATE). We equip them with the skills and tools needed to run compliant, effective recruitment campaigns that align with the Department’s strategic goals.
This is a part-time position (17 hours per week) for a Capability and Compliance Partner to join team, you will be responsible for ensuring that hiring managers have the training and tools required to run their own recruitment campaigns, including for contractor recruitment. This will involve working with business areas to identify gaps in knowledge and address these, as well as using data provided by the team on common queries and issues.

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
• Ensure that your team is working within agreed service levels for activities, including responding the hiring manager queries and conducting quality checks
• Identify and share recruitment trends with the wider team
• Identify opportunities for improvements in recruitment policy and processes, aiming to reduce time to hire, the quality of hire, and improve the hiring manager and candidate experience
• Working with your team and business areas to identify hiring manager training requirements in terms of recruitment and onboarding. To do this, you will use data such as common queries, hiring manager feedback, and identified errors and compliance issues
• Working with your team to develop guidance and training to support hiring managers with their recruitment campaigns
• Ensure that hiring managers remain compliant throughout the recruitment process, following the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, employment law, and other departmental policies and procedures

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.

WORKING HOURS, OFFICE ATTENDANCE AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

This is a part-time role of 17 hours per week. There is flexibility for the hours to be worked between 11am and 5pm across a minimum of 4 days per week due to business requirements.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.
Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.
If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

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)
• 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

Further information on nationality requirements

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
• Ensure that your team is working within agreed service levels for activities, including responding the hiring manager queries and conducting quality checks
• Identify and share recruitment trends with the wider team
• Identify opportunities for improvements in recruitment policy and processes, aiming to reduce time to hire, the quality of hire, and improve the hiring manager and candidate experience
• Working with your team and business areas to identify hiring manager training requirements in terms of recruitment and onboarding. To do this, you will use data such as common queries, hiring manager feedback, and identified errors and compliance issues
• Working with your team to develop guidance and training to support hiring managers with their recruitment campaigns
• Ensure that hiring managers remain compliant throughout the recruitment process, following the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, employment law, and other departmental policies and procedure

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience of working in a recruitment function with good knowledge of the recruitment process
• Experience of working within a high-pressured and fast-paced team with the ability to organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity, whilst maintaining a high-quality service level to stakeholders
• Experience of creating and delivering guidance and training material (either formally or informally)
• Experience of building and maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholders
• Experience of using and analysing data to inform decision makin