Resourcing Partner

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

- 344988**Salary**:

- £32,178-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- (1 x Permanent, 1 x 12 Month FTA)**Business area**:

- People, Capability and Change**Type of role**:

- Human Resources**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birkenhead, Darlington, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**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 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) 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 DLUHC 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 DLUHC.

There may also be an opportunity to work within our innovative and exciting Digital team to provide bespoke support on the Recruitment of Digital Professionals.

**Job description**:
**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 DLUHC’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 DLUHC receives good value for money.
- You will lead thematic projects and support HR priorities.
- Some line and/or task management may be involved.

**Person specification**:
**About you**

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 ch