Resourcing Partner

at  Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities

JOB SUMMARY

Are you a highly resilient individual who can confidently challenge and communicate with people at all levels?
Can you provide innovative and creative recruitment solutions whilst working at pace and to tight deadlines?
Would you like the opportunity to build and maintain relationships with people across our department at a variety of levels?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as a Resourcing Partner, and we’d love to hear from you!
The People Capability & Change (PC&C) Directorate provides direction, drives change and delivers the Department’s resourcing priorities.
You will play a pivotal role in leading the Resourcing Hub to effectively resource MHCLG with the right people with the right skills. This means a real focus on customer service and attention to detail, ensuring that we provide high quality resourcing advice and consultancy support. You will be a dedicated Resourcing Partner for one of our business areas providing bespoke recruitment advice on the design and delivery of campaigns. This role requires the ability to build credible and trusted relationships with hiring managers and senior leaders across MHCLG.

ABOUT YOU

The successful candidate will have experience of working in an operational environment and leading an end-to-end process and will have the passion to succeed in this role.
You will bring excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and will have the ability to adapt your delivery to suit a wide variety of audiences, maximising both impact and understanding.
You will have a talent for building rapport with others, which helps you build and maintain trusting and long-lasting relationships with your colleagues and stakeholders.
You will be self-motivated and bring a proactive and positive attitude, which gives you the ability to work on your own initiative and under pressure.
Your strong organisational skills give you a calm and composed approach to your work, and you thrive working in a fast-paced environment whilst working to deliver to deadlines. You are able to flex to meet conflicting priorities and demands, showing resilience and composure.
You enjoy looking for better ways of working and your ability to identify improvements and inspire change will be vital to add value to the expert advice and recommendations MHCLG provide to our customers.

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

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RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

As part of your role, you will be required to undertake the following responsibilities:

• Provide bespoke recruitment or transactional consultancy support to your business area. You will be required to work with senior leaders, HR Business Partners and Business Managers to understand workforce plans and support them to develop strategies tailored to meet their needs.
• Build strong and credible partnerships with stakeholders both internally and externally, from a diverse range of backgrounds, sharing recruitment expertise, resources, and support. You will be expected to report updates on recruitment progress in Senior Leadership Team meetings with senior colleagues.
• Continuously look for ways of improving MHCLG’s recruitment process – working to remove bureaucracy and utilise technology to streamline processes. Adopt an outward and forward-thinking approach, with a high aptitude for creativity and problem solving. You should encourage a solutions focused culture and have a strong awareness of innovative trials and how they might be applicable to the Department and wider Civil Service.
• Take the lead on data reporting. You will analyse and monitor recruitment data to enable the HR Operations team to keep track of progress against our workforce projections, key performance indicators and delivery of services. This requires a real eye for detail and an aptitude for analysis.
• Build and continuously expand upon your knowledge on the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, employment law, and IR35 legislation. You will use your skills and knowledge the build the capability of the team and managers across the wider Department.
• Support business areas through the contingent labour process. You will be required to understand labour market trends and costs, ensuring MHCLG receives good value for money.
• You will lead thematic projects and support HR priorities.
• Some line and/or task management may be involved.

WE DO NOT CONSIDER DIRECT CV APPLICATIONS TO OUR RECRUITMENT MAILBOX – YOU MUST APPLY FOR THIS ROLE VIA THE APPLICATION LINK ON CIVIL SERVICE JOBS

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign.

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis, if you are successful for the role.

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