Resourcing Lead

at  Crown Commercial Service

JOB SUMMARY

Job Summary
As a Resourcing Lead at CCS, you will ensure that a professional and consultative resourcing service is provided to the business. You will truly add value by leading all recruitment for your allocated business area, offering market insight, resourcing solutions on the best routes to market, build your understanding of the current and future requirements and most importantly design effective talent attraction strategies. You will serve as a strategic partner, advising on recruitment strategies and ensuring a positive candidate / hiring manager experience.

TEAM SUMMARY:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a small Recruitment team of four who work collaboratively to attract top talent, streamline hiring and create a positive candidate experience. As a team we’re ambitious, forward-thinking and committed continuously improve our processes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Design and deliver in house end to end recruitment campaigns using appropriate channels to get to a range of audiences.
• Report on recruitment progress in Senior Leadership Team meetings
• Work with your allocated directorates and partner with the Business Partners to understand current and future requirements.
• Undertake market research for specific roles, to build your knowledge of the local recruitment economy and national talent trends. Proactively sharing this knowledge with colleagues and hiring managers.
• Take a practical and hands-on role in ensuring we provide an excellent candidate experience.
• Developing and owning the delivery of the resourcing plans for your allocated business areas, identifying and mitigating any resourcing risks/shortfalls
• Contribute to CCS’s brand and attraction strategy, thinking creatively about how vacancies are marketed
• As a subject matter expert, provide advice and guidance on job adverts, social media content, interview approaches, and inclusive hiring.
• Manage the offer process, working within the salary pay bands and policies.
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders, using data, market intelligence and excellent communication skills to influence managers when designing their recruitment campaign.
• Promote CCS externally as an employer of choice to build talent pools.
• Support our commitment to continuous improvements and take a leading role in implementing new ways of working.
• Deliver our in-house recruitment training programme ‘Licence to recruit’
• Ensure that the ‘licence to recruit’ training programme is regularly reviewed with the aim being to continuously improve our offering
• Lead on outreach activities such as delivering candidate webinars to explain CCS’s recruitment and assessment processes, utilising social media and attendance at careers fairs

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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 (opens in a new window)

As the HR directorate, we recognise our people are our biggest asset. We are responsible for the people strategy which prioritises:

• recruitment and retention
• inclusion and diversity
• employee wellbeing
• learning and development
• reward and recognition
• workplace service