Recruitment Partner
Birmingham
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate Recruitment Partner to join our dynamic team in Birmingham on a permanent basis. If you're eager to shape the future of our recruitment service offering from the ground up, work strategically and operationally, as well as being part of a team that values efficiency and innovation, then this is the role for you!
Why Join Us?
- Competitive Salary: £37,000 per annum
- Generous Pension: Market leading Civil Service pension with a 28.97% employer contribution rate
- Prime Location: Enjoy our vibrant office in central Birmingham, just a stone's throw from New Street train station, with convenient hybrid working arrangements.
- Holidays: 26 days, increasing to 29 days after 2 years, with an option to buy up to 5 additional days
- Work Environment: Join a certified Great Place to Work, committed to inclusivity, respect, and helping you achieve your full potential. Make sure to help yourself to the free tea and coffee!
Joining us means joining an organisation that is certified as a Great Place to Work, respects work-life balance, is inclusive, and is completely dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential. Whether that’s through flexible working, really understanding how you work best or exposing you to real opportunities to challenge yourself, if you’re passionate about making your mark on the industry and on society, then we will help you do that.
Your Role
As a Recruitment Partner, you will play a crucial role in delivering our Talent Acquisition and Resourcing services. Your responsibilities will span from managing the end-to-end recruitment and onboarding process to supporting the Senior Manager in strategic initiatives. You will be a key player in establishing our full service offering and then ensuring these services are delivered efficiently and professionally across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition & Resourcing
- Shape Careers: Design and launch exciting career programmes, including internships, apprenticeships, work experience, and graduate recruitment, contributing to our overall talent strategy.
- Source the Best: Evaluate and recommend the best external talent sources to meet our strategic goals, empowering hiring managers with recruitment plans and toolkits that reflect our values.
- Service Offer: This role will play a crucial role in developing our service offer.
- Drive Improvement: Helping to re-design our current recruitment process to place Vacancy Holders and Candidates at the centre.
- Innovative Attraction: Advise on and implement creative attraction and selection plans, collaborating with the Communications team and hiring managers to effectively advertise roles.
- Build Strong Partnerships: Develop and nurture relationships with third-party suppliers and coordinate with other Civil Service departments for smooth secondments.
- Market Insights: Conduct salary benchmarking to stay current with the external job market, aiding in informed job evaluation decisions.
Service Delivery
- Step into Leadership: Deputise for the Talent Acquisition Senior Manager during absences or peak times, showcasing your leadership skills and keeping the team on track.
- Knowledge Guru: Stay ahead of the curve with the latest recruitment legislation and diversity and inclusion developments, sharing your insights with the team to keep everyone informed and compliant.
- Boost Our Brand: Enhance our employer branding on platforms like Indeed, Glassdoor, and our careers pages to attract top talent and showcase our organisation's strengths.
- Welcome Aboard: Implement and maintain structured onboarding processes to ensure new hires feel integrated and valued from day one.
Management Information
- Strategic Insights: Provide valuable insights into resourcing activity, anticipating future risks and proposing mitigations based on data.
Diversity & Inclusion
- Champion D&I: Implement the D&I strategy, ensuring diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our recruitment processes. Create guides, training materials, and promote updates to the wider Commission to foster an inclusive culture.
Person Specification:
Essential Criteria
Demonstrable experience in managing end-to-end recruitment processes, with the ability to advise on best practice within attraction, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding.
A great communicator, someone who can influence and build rapport with stakeholders of all levels.
A pro-active and dynamic team player who strives to identify and implement areas of continuous improvement, whilst supporting the team to achieve it’s objectives.
Desirable:
Proven experience in developing and implementing effective talent acquisition strategies to attract diverse and high-quality candidates in a fast paced in-house resourcing team.
Timeline
Closing: 11th August 2024
Pre-liminary Interview: Week Commencing 19th August
Interviews: Week Commencing 26th August
Application
You will be asked to provide your work history along and experience, please ensure this is fully fleshed out as this will be used in conjunction with the supporting statement to assess your application. The Supporting Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the essential criteria and person specification outlined in the advert.
Sift
At sift your Supporting Statement will be assessed against the person specification listed, successful candidates may be invited to a preliminary interview.
Interview
During the panel interview, you will be asked questions to explore in detail your experience and what you are capable of, all questions will be centred around the Person Specification.
About Us
Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.
The closing date for this role is 11th August 24.
PLEASE NOTE: Ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visas at this time.
Incomplete applications will be discounted from shortlisting. Please ensure your application is fully completed and submitted before logging out of your account.
We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the number of responses received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure it is considered in the selection process.
As the regulator of the National Lottery, there are some roles within the Commission that are prohibited from playing the National Lottery. This does not affect your family playing. We will let you know at the interview if the role you have applied for is on the Prohibited List.
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel a department has breached the Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact Governance, Gambling Commission, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 4BP in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from us you can contact the Civil Service Commission.
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