Resourcing Policy Lead

2 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 326633**Salary**:

- £52,412 - £63,517- National Min: £52,412 - Max: £63,517**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - People and Capability**Type of role**:

- Human Resources**Working pattern**:

- Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, SheffieldAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Resourcing Centre of Expertise (RCoE) is an established team within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whose purpose is to use resourcing expertise, insights, and tools to enable the attraction and retention of people with the right skills and experience, and who are representative of the communities we serve, to support delivery of DWP’s Departmental Plan.

The team has a wide-ranging impact, leading activity on corporate recruitment attraction, diversity in recruitment, resourcing governance, supplier management for Government Recruitment Services and resourcing policy.

The Resourcing Policy Lead is a key role within the RCoE and the job holder will be pivotal in shaping and ensuring our resourcing policies and procedures are in line with current legislation and meet business requirements. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels and be responsible for the development, maintenance, and strategic oversight of resourcing policy.

As our resourcing policy lead you will help review and impact external legislation changes and proposed innovations to our recruitment processes ensuring they are compliant with employment law and Civil Service Commission rules.

This is a part time role to work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week. There is currently Resourcing Policy cover in the wider Resourcing Centre of Expertise team from Wednesday to Friday and the successful individual will work alongside the current resource.

**Job description**:
As the Resourcing Policy Lead you will be responsible for:

- The development, maintenance and strategic oversight of resourcing policy and guidance including knowledge management, communications and upskilling for resourcing and HR colleagues.
- Impacting proposed changes to recruitment or workforce management processes, or new initiatives from the Cabinet Office/Government People Group, ensuring policy implications and risks are understood, and policy changes implemented where required.
- Providing guidance and policy interpretation, as well as seeking specific Civil Service Commission and legal advice to inform decisions, ad hoc solutions to resourcing issues and new approaches, to enable successful delivery of business priorities (i.e. delivering operational recruitment or estates transformation programme)
- Working collaboratively across People and Capability Directorate with HR Business Partners, HR Casework Team and Resource Account Managers as well as across Government with Government People Group, Other Government Departments and the Civil Service Commission to understand wider resourcing trends, identify common issues and share best practice.
- Dealing with complex cases and recruitment scenarios escalated via the Service Delivery model from the HR Casework Team and the Policy Knowledge Leads.
- Ensuring compliance with Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, DWP resourcing policies and employment law, proactively addressing issues and escalating concerns where required.

**Person specification**:
**Key Criteria**

The successful applicant will:
- Have experience of the end-to-end the HR policy cycle, including evidence collection, design, Trade Union consultation, and implementation including conducting thorough equality analysis where required. You will have experience of working closely with key partners across the organisation including HR, Resourcing and Legal colleagues to deliver policy changes. **[Lead criteria]**
Be a pragmatic decision maker with the ability to understand the strategic context within the organisation and wider, alongside potential business impact of proposals and use this insight and knowledge of best practice to evaluate risks and options providing pragmatic solutions to address business challenges.Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build and collaborate with a broad and trusted network to deliver work priorities. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to challenge at all levels with the ability to network, influence and persuade to engage and gain agreement where appropriate.
Evidence of being able to work autonomously at pace with responsibility for developing and managing a busy and varied programme of work responding flexibly and prioritising activity based on emerging business challenges.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Mak


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