Senior Campaign Manager – SCS Resourcing

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Are you passionate about recruitment?
Have you got an interest in engaging with, and recruiting the most senior leaders in DWP?
If so, then this role could be for you!
The SCS resourcing team is a small team within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whose purpose is to deliver all Senior Civil Service (SCS) resourcing for DWP.
We provide bespoke advice to ensure that recruitment and selection is tailored to the nature of the role being advertised.
We are also committed to ensuring we provide the best candidate and vacancy holder experience for DWP’s SCS appointments.
As a senior campaign manager, you are responsible for being a subject matter expert in senior recruitment. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across DWP, providing advice and robust recommendations to resourcing related problems.
You will report to the SCS Resourcing Team Lead (G7) and will be responsible for line managing 2-3 team members (HEO and EO).
If you have experience of senior recruitment, exceptional senior stakeholder engagement skills, and enjoy working in an ever-changing, fast paced environment, we would love to receive your application.
Shaping policy that touches lives across the UK. That’s our purpose.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Partner key stakeholders within your allocated business areas, using your excellent communication skills to effectively resolve problems, plan for the future and mitigate risks.
• Responsible for supporting campaign managers to lead and own their campaigns, whilst ensuring they provide a consistently excellent service to both candidates and hiring managers.
• Line manage campaign managers effectively, ensuring the team environment is a safe space, open to challenge.
• Accountable for leading the recruitment process for SCS2+ campaigns.
• Ensuring compliance with Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, DWP resourcing policies and employment law, proactively addressing issues and escalating concerns where required.
• Champion continuous improvement and support the successful implementation of business change by being proactive and innovative.
• Interpreting and analysing data, insight and evidence to inform recommendations and decisions on recruitment issues.
• Working collaboratively across the team, department and other government departments to understand and share wider resourcing trends.

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge of the Civil Service recruitment principles and cross-Government HR vacancy filling policies.

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)

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