Recruitment Partner

at  NSW Government

ABOUT US

At the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), we’re dedicated to carrying out meaningful work that drives improvements and elevates student achievement across NSW, now and into the future.
We accomplish this by supporting all school sectors with high-quality syllabuses, assessment (including managing the HSC and NAPLAN), teaching standards (e.g., accrediting teachers) and school environments (including setting and monitoring school standards).
NESA is a unique organisation in NSW (of around 700 FTE staff) with significant state-wide impact, visit our website to learn more about the important work we do.

IN ADDITION, ADDRESS THE 2 TARGETED QUESTIONS BELOW IN YOUR ONLINE APPLICATION (MAXIMUM 400 WORDS EACH):

• Outline an example of a complex candidate enquiry or issue you resolved independently, what was the situation, the actions you took and the outcome?
• Provide an example of when you have provided advice to a hiring manager which balanced legislative provisions and the outcome they were seeking to achieve, what was the situation, the advice you gave and the outcome?
  Advice on applying for NSW Public Sector roles
  If you need reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process and workplace, please reach out to the contact person above.
  Thank you for your interest, we look forward to receiving your application.

It’s an exciting time to join the People and Culture function at NESA. We are in a period of growth, transforming our operating model and re-defining our service offerings across the full range of people deliverables to support exceptional business outcomes. In addition to enhancing delivery of core operational services and pursuing new enabling technology solutions, the People and Culture team is responsible for designing and delivering an exciting agenda of strategic people priorities and workforce programs.
As part of our new operating model, we are standing up a new, centralised Recruitment team and will be progressively advertising a range of vacancies at different grades in this team. The Recruitment Partners will play a key role in designing new processes, embedding stakeholder-focused practices, and partnering with business areas to design and deliver effective talent acquisition approaches.
The Recruitment Partners will have a broad range of responsibilities in an environment where they demonstrate high levels of independence and problem-solving to support, advise, provide solutions for, guide and influence stakeholders, including senior leaders.

On a day-to-day basis this role is responsible for:

• Proactive and high-touch end-to-end recruitment services and advice, including:
• role design, workforce planning, hiring briefs.
• job advertisements, advertising strategies, sourcing, managing candidate enquiries (as the primary contact).
• shortlisting, phone screens, creating candidate assessment tasks, drafting interview questions.
• advising hiring managers on selection decisions, making offers, negotiating salaries, and developing and delivering candidate feedback.
• Developing a deep understanding of NESA’s business, culture and hiring needs and applying that knowledge to the recruitment advice and services they provide to hiring managers and candidates.
• Ensuring a high level of confidentiality, tact and diplomacy and attention to detail are evident to stakeholders.
• Delivering services with a sense of urgency and ensuring recruitment service metrics are met.
• Demonstrating high levels of written and verbal communication skills to liaise with hiring managers and candidates on routine and complex matters.
• Ensuring recruitment plans and activities meet legislative requirements and appropriate record keeping is maintained.

These are roles for recruiters looking to develop strong partnerships with hiring managers and provide advice and services to them and candidates with a high degree of expertise, care and engagement.
We invite you to download the role description for additional important information on the role and welcome queries to Michelle Carlon on the contact details above.