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Job summary

Strategic Resourcing Manager

Bristol 

£63,386 - £69,444 

Plus generous Civil Service defined benefit pension  

 

About us 

 

The Office for Students (OfS) is the statutory regulator for higher education in England.  Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.  We do this by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.  

Job description

Purpose of the job 

 

The Strategic Resourcing Manager is a critical role in ensuring that we attract and recruit talented staff, ensuring that we can meet our regulatory agenda and achieve our organisational strategy. 

 

This is a new role, reporting to the Head of HR. The role will have the opportunity to craft the recruitment and resourcing offer for the OfS as a new People Strategy is being implemented.  

 

The Strategic Resourcing Manager will work with HR Business Partners, directors and senior colleagues in reviewing and delivering the strategic workforce resourcing plans. They will be the source of trusted, professional and technical expertise on resourcing, and will demonstrate persuasive and compelling leadership, influence and understanding of the business and its workforce needs. 

Person specification

 

About you 

 

• You are an experienced resourcing professional 

• Skilled at building productive relationships 
• Able to influence at a senior level 
• You are a strong communicator with a creative approach 
• You have the flexibility to thrive in an agile environment 

Key Responsibilities 

 

• Leading, developing and delivering our attraction and recruitment approach, our employer branding and ultimately ensuring that the recruitment needs of the organisation are met. 

 

• Leading strategic workforce planning, in partnership with HRBPs, the Organisational Development team and the Delivery team to ensure accurate projections of resourcing requirements. 

 

• Undertaking benchmarking, analysis and research to understand the labour market for our roles and find suitable candidates. 

 

• Using professional expertise to design our selection and assessment methodology, ensuring it is reliable and fit for purpose.  

 

• Designing our approach to attraction, including refining our Employer Value Proposition to enable more effective candidate attraction. 

 

• Leading the recruitment team as they advise and support recruiting managers to develop and deliver candidate pipelines to meet their recruitment needs. 

 

• Working with the Delivery team to ensure that business planning is fully aligned with resourcing activity. 

 

• Working with the colleagues in HR and across the organisation to ensure a smooth journey from attraction to induction. 

 

• Leading the continued improvement of communication channels and recruitment processes and contracts, ensuring a cost effective, efficient and proportionate approach that balances both candidate experience and business need. 

 

• Leading and managing the recruitment team to best meet the needs of an agile organisation. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £63,386, Office for Students contributes £17,177 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

 

Working for us 

 

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do. 
 
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. 

 

Working arrangements 

 

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two to three days in a typical week. 

 

To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part-time working, applies to the role.  

 

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

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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.