About the job

Job summary

Recruitment Partner
Birmingham, West Midlands (with hybrid working)

We are looking for a Recruitment Partner to join our team in Birmingham on a permanent basis. You will be responsible for managing our recruitment and onboarding experience from end to end. You work as part of a team to ensure that our services are delivered efficiently, making this a great place to work. You will be part of the broader busy People Services team delivering joined up service delivery, professional advice and solutions across the organisation in line with our strategic objectives.

Job description

Your Role

 

Service Delivery 

1. Deputise for the Talent Acquisition Senior Manager in times of absence or peaks in work demand.
2. Keep up to date knowledge of recruitment legislation and potential future changes including diversity and inclusion developments and ensure this knowledge is shared. You will ensure that you keep your team members up to date with any important changes.
3. Maintain and create content for our webpages such as Indeed, Glassdoor, internal and external careers page to ensure content is up to date and informative to improve our employer branding.
4. Maintain structured onboarding processes to facilitate the integration professionals into the Commission. 

Talent Acquisition & Resourcing

1. Work with the Talent Acquisition Senior Manager, to design and implement careers programmes, including internships, apprenticeships, work experience, and graduate recruitment to support the overall talent strategy.
2. Support with evaluating external talent sources and provide recommendations for change to support our strategic goals.
3. Support hiring Managers to ensure we have plans in place to fulfil resourcing requirements and recruiting in the right way, using recruitment toolkits that are aligned to our values.
4. Advise on and implement attraction and selection plans and planned campaigns, and where possible working closely with our Communications team and the hiring manager to effectively advertise roles.
5. You will support and bring to life our workforce plan and EVP strategy.

Stakeholder Relationships 

1. Develop and maintain effective relationships with third party suppliers to ensure effective performance.
2. You will be a key contact for our ATS contract and service, including systems access and set up.
3. Assist the great place to work initiative by supporting colleagues to achieve results, deliver effective advice and work effectively as a team.
4. Work with other Civil Service departments to ensure the smooth and timely processing of secondments.
5. Ensure support is in place so that our managers conduct thorough interviews to assess candidates’ qualifications, skills and cultural fit with the business. 

Policy, Process & Guidance 

1. Contribute to the development and implementation of policy and process change to create a culture of continuous improvement throughout both People Services and the Commission.
2. Conduct salary benchmarking (following agreed processes), keeping up to date of the status of the external job market to aid decisions around job evaluation. 

Management Information 

1. Provide insights and a forward look into resourcing activity, anticipating future risks and mitigations based on data. 

Diversity & Inclusion 

1. Support the implementation of the D&I strategy by reviewing recruitment processes to ensure diversity and inclusion is at the heart of the recruitment process. This includes creating guides and training and promoting updates and changes to the wider Commission.

Person specification

About You

Essential: 

1. Experience of working with an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), including maintenance and upkeep. You will explore problems, test solutions and rectify or escalate as needed
2. Effective communication, oral and written skills working with a variety of stakeholders.
3. A natural team player who strives to identify and implement areas of continuous improvement, whilst supporting the team to achieve its objectives.
4. An ability to prioritise and respond to requests with tight deadlines, along with multi-tasking in a fast-paced working environment, whilst still maintaining a strong attention to detail.
5. Experience of working with HR software in collaboration with the wider people team.

  

Desirable: 

1. Proven experience in developing and implement effective talent acquisition strategies to attract diverse and high-quality candidates
2. Experience of managing and maintaining an accurate and effective resourcing tracker/establishment tool

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,000, Gambling Commission contributes £9,990 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

There will be a 2 stage interview process after sifting during the first week of May.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.