Resourcing Policy and Projects Manager
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Orchard Square, Sheffield
Resourcing Policy and Projects Manager
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Orchard Square, Sheffield
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
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Full Job Description
- Leading and supporting high-profile resourcing policy and continuous improvement projects from concept to implementation.
- Building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, using effective communication and influencing skills to drive positive outcomes.
- Using data, evidence and insight to identify trends, inform recommendations and improve recruitment performance.
- Ensuring recruitment policies remain modern, inclusive and aligned with Civil Service Recruitment Principles and employment legislation.
- Developing solutions that enhance candidate experience and support DWP's diversity and inclusion ambitions.
- Providing expert advice and guidance on complex recruitment policy matters.
- Managing and developing policy products, guidance and knowledge resources used across the department.
- Maintaining governance and planning arrangements to support effective delivery of team priorities. You will also play an important role in supporting DWP's attraction and employer branding activity by:
- Enhancing DWP's presence on platforms such as LinkedIn, Civil Service Careers and Vercida.
- Working with communications teams to maximise recruitment campaigns and social media engagement.
- Collaborating with staff networks and HR colleagues to understand lived experiences and identify opportunities to remove barriers in recruitment.
- Building partnerships across government to share best practice, explore innovative approaches and influence resourcing strategies.
- Analysing recruitment, attraction and diversity data to support evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement. This is a unique opportunity to work at the centre of strategic recruitment activity within DWP, influencing how thousands of people join the organisation. If you enjoy project delivery, stakeholder engagement, problem solving and driving continuous improvement, this role offers challenge, variety and the chance to make a significant impact.
- Analysing and responding to resourcing queries received and where possible resolving them directly with internal DWP customers; or escalating more complex queries to the Resourcing Policy Leads to progress.
- Developing and maintaining a cross-team knowledge bank of previous policy advice, guidance, precedents and legal opinions.
- Interpreting and analysing data, insight and evidence to understand performance across recruitment activities and policy queries; using insight to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and where amendments to resourcing policy may be required.
- Using expert insight, data and tools to shape how DWP attracts and retains the right people - building a workforce with the skills, experience and diversity needed to deliver our services.
- Ensuring compliance with Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, DWP resourcing policies and employment law, proactively addressing issues and escalating concerns where required.
- Maintaining deputy director led plans, ensuring alignment with wider People Services and Resourcing (PSR) and People and Capability Directorate plans, and team governance products in line with project management principles.
- Working collaboratively across the team, department and other government departments to understand and share wider resourcing trends.
- Potential opportunities to be part of, or lead, resourcing projects and pilots.
Join the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Resourcing Centre of Expertise (RCoE), a small but influential team shaping how DWP attracts, recruits and retains talent across a workforce of 90,000 employees. Using data, insight and innovation, the team develops recruitment strategies that help build a skilled, diverse and inclusive workforce capable of delivering for millions of citizens. The RCoE leads work across resourcing policy, attraction and employer branding, diversity and inclusion, governance, project delivery and continuous improvement. Working with colleagues across DWP, the wider Civil Service and external partners, the team drives improvements that influence recruitment activity at scale. This varied and rewarding role offers the opportunity to lead and support projects that strengthen recruitment policy, improve candidate experiences and deliver innovative solutions to complex resourcing challenges. No two days are the same, you will work with senior leaders, project
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