About the job

Job summary

Are you an experienced Talent Acquisition specialist within the digital field? Would you thrive working in a dynamic fast paced environment, recruiting talented individuals to deliver some of Defence’s most critical priorities? 

Interested? If so, Come and Grow Your Career in Defence Digital. 

We are Defence Digital, part of UK Strategic Command, fulfilling an important role in the age of information warfare within the Ministry of Defence (MOD). We provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via various communication means, including radio, satellite and internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we're aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world.  

As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will be a key member of the Talent Acquisition Team, part of the organisations HR team, who you’ll be working closely with.

This post is advertised at 37 hours per week. 

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities.  Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

Job description

The Talent Acquisition Team are responsible for the delivery of the Defence Digital recruitment strategy, including the attraction and selection of roles within the government Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) profession. 

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Lead, the post holder will provide a professional and effective service to secure top talent for our Digital vacancies. Your focus will be on volume recruitment where you will be responsible for managing the recruitment life cycle from campaign planning to securing a successful candidate. You’ll be acting as a subject matter expert, providing key stakeholders with advice and guidance, ensuring adherence to MOD and Civil Service recruitment policy, whilst also ensuring time to hire is kept to a minimum. You will be actively promoting Defence Digital as an employer of choice, whilst also providing an exceptional candidate journey and experience. 

Person specification

As a strong Digital Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will be detail focused and process driven, and well accustomed to working in a fast-paced resourcing environment. You will be confident managing a number of recruitment campaigns at any one time whilst delivering a first-class service to both stakeholders and candidates alike. You will have a good track record of campaign planning, direct sourcing, candidate generation methodologies and attraction methods for both volume and niche recruitment. You will also have a proven ability in writing compelling job adverts and enjoy using your initiative and drive to provide resourcing solutions within given parameters.

You will ideally be REC qualified or be willing to work towards gaining this qualification whilst in post.

Responsibilities 

• Produce campaign plans ensuring volume recruitment is used where possible and timelines are effective to ensure time to hire is kept to a minimum.
• Write compelling job adverts using Head of Profession Role Profiles.
• Working with the social media manager, determine optimal job advertising mix, including job boards, careers pages and social networks.
• Craft sourcing strategies through online channels and forums. Attend career fairs and other outreach events to maximise reach.
• Carry out Learning from Experience on all campaigns to enable management information and reporting and improve resourcing processes.
• Using Strategic workforce Plans, forward plan future recruitment requirements and build a pipeline of talent for critical hires and hard to fill future roles.
• Manage the bulk campaign process partnering with or Heads of Communities and line managers to ensure quality and consistency of hire.

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable experience of working within a fast-paced Talent Acquisition environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience of partnering and consultation.
• Experience in job advert creation and placement.
• Experience of direct sourcing.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Ability to drive diversity amongst applicants and talent pools.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include: job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience. You will be assessed against your relevant, skills, knowledge and experience which demonstrates the essential criteria listed within this advert.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability (max. 1250 words). It is essential that your personal statement includes evidence of how you meet the following essential criteria. Each criteria will be scored 1-7 and make up part of your overall score to assess your suitability to be invited to interview:

At sift, you will be assessed against your CV and Statement of suitability.

At interview, you will be assessed against the following behaviours:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.