Talent Partner and Campus Lead
Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority)
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 1st December 2024
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Job summary
We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Associate Talent Partner and Campus Leader to join our Early Careers team within Corporate Enablers.
We are Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority, a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales.
We are at the source of everyday life. We help the sector build trust and confidence with customers, the environment and wider society: keeping water flowing, bills affordable and helping ensure the health of our rivers and waterways.
Our work is high-profile and fast-moving, within a dynamic and agile environment. The work that you’ll be involved in every day will help us to deliver our strategy, to make us the regulator we want to be and help the sector to deliver for customers and society.
You can find out more about why you should join Ofwat, our strategy, values and our framework for success in the attached Information for Candidates Pack.
Job description
The Role
Reporting to the Early Careers lead, you will partner the organisation to understand key early careers talent requirements, ensuring our attraction and selection strategies are put in place to deliver the right people at the right time. As you facilitate the end-to-end recruitment journey, you'll provide a fantastic candidate experience, implementing improvements to our ways of working along the way. Whilst the core focus for this role is recruitment, there will be opportunity to support delivery of Ofwat’s early careers strategy, ensuring a pipeline of talent.
Key Deliverables
In this role you will be expected to:
- Lead on the campus strategy for universities and schools in the local area for the year. Creating strong relationships with schools/ universities and attending career fairs.
- Support on the marketing/ outreach for the recruitment adverts.
- Support with student event coordination and delivery both on campus and in the office including organising representatives, workshops, catering, travel etc.
- Support with the advertisement and selection of our work experience students.
- Provide up to date market information (Public and Private Sector) for graduate, internships and apprenticeships.
- Manage the recruitment process internally from start to finish, adhering to civil service recruitment standards.
- Assessment centre management and coordination.
- Ensure all trackers and systems are kept up to date, enabling accurate tracking and reporting.
- Create a strong onboarding plan for the new hires and deliver this.
- Produce and maintain process maps and documents, support with training new members of the team.
- Support with any ad hoc early careers duties to support the team throughout the year.
Person specification
To be successful in this role you will need the below essential experience, skills, knowledge and attributes:
Experience, skills and knowledge
- Lead Criteria 1: Good knowledge of graduate, internship and apprenticeship programmes.
- Lead criteria 2: Experience of overseeing and being accountable for, multiple recruitment campaigns. Managing the full vacancy life cycle through advertising, selection and offer stages, in partnership with vacancy holders.
- Excellent stakeholder management, with demonstrable experience of relationship building at all levels.
- Experience of delivering in a process orientated recruitment cycle, using Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Comprehensive understanding of recruitment marketing, attraction tools and selection strategies to help support Ofwat's EDI Strategy.
- Experience of improving talent acquisition processes or similar projects
- Providing expert advice and guidance to vacancy holders on best practice and compliance within regulated recruitment processes.
Attributes
8. Building Trust
9. Promoting Collaboration
Attributes as per Ofwat's Framework for Success for Senior Associate Band. You can read more about Attributes here.
Benefits
Why You Should Join Us:
We’re forward-thinking, creative, innovative, and ambitious. We constantly push the boundaries and embrace new ways of working.
With us, your work matters, your voice is heard, and your impact is felt. Ours is a culture of trust, flexibility, autonomy, collaboration, and innovation. We all want positive change for water customers, the environment, and the future of water.
But for us, change is more than what happens on the outside – we’ve always pushed boundaries internally, too. From becoming the first Civil Service organisation to achieve ‘Smarter Working’ status, to gaining our prestigious ‘Smarter Working Maturity’ award, we’ve consistently demonstrated our commitment to embracing innovative ways of working. Our people do their best work when given freedom over where, when, and how they work. Which is why we trust our teams to balance meaningful collaboration in the office with the flexibility of working from home.
You will also benefit from:
- Excellent employer pension contributions of above 28%.
- 27.5 days leave (25 days annual leave + 2.5 days privilege leave) increasing to max 32.5 days with each year of service, plus bank holidays
- Access to exclusive discounts on a variety of goods and services, including retail outlets,
theatre tickets, holidays, insurance, and a gym membership - Flexible working arrangements that suit your lifestyle
- Fees paid for membership of relevant professional bodies
- Up to 3 volunteering days per year
- Recognition vouchers scheme
- Generous shared parental leave and pay
- Enhanced sick pay
- Regular development opportunities
- Health and wellbeing initiatives
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Season ticket loan for home-to-office travel
- Free eye tests and contribution to lenses/spectacles for VDU users
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Selection process details
How to apply
Apply through the Civil Service Jobs website where you’ll be asked to create an account and complete an application form (CV and personal statement). If you’re unable to make an electronic application, please contact recruitment@ofwat.gov.uk and we will support you in completing your application.
Please ensure you have submitted your application in full ahead of the deadline listed below. Unfortunately, we won't be able to consider late applications.
Please see the candidate guidance on our website for more detail and tips on how to best make your application.
Selection timetable
- Closing date: 23.55 on 01 December 2024
- Sifting: Week commencing 02 December 2024
- Interview date(s): 10 & 11 December 2024
Assessment process
Sift Stage
We operate a blind sifting model to eliminate bias. All candidate identifying information will be removed from applications.
At sift stage we assess your application (CV and personal statement) against criteria 1,2, 4 & 6, listed in the professional requirements section above.
Use your personal statement to address the Lead criterion 1 & 2 below and tell us how your how your skills, experience, and knowledge meet this.
- Good knowledge of graduate, internship and apprenticeship programmes.
- Experience of overseeing and being accountable for, multiple recruitment campaigns. Managing the full vacancy life cycle through advertising, selection and offer stages, in partnership with vacancy holders.
In the CV section of your application, please state clearly how your skills, experience, and knowledge meet essential criteria 1, 2, 4 & 6.
*In the event of receiving a large number of applications, a pre-sift may take place on just the lead criterion.
Please ensure that anything submitted as part of your application is factually accurate, and you are not presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by AI, as your own.
Please note that if a high volume of candidates meet the minimum pass mark at sift stage, we will only progress the highest scoring candidates to interview. Candidates not invited to interview, who have achieved the minimum pass mark, will be placed 'on hold' until the final stage of the assessment process is completed. Should the role/s remain unfilled, candidates placed 'on hold' may be invited to interview in merit order.
You may find the STAR method useful in structuring your personal statement.
Interview Stage
At interview stage we will test against attributes, as well as skills, experience, and knowledge (set out above).
Our transparent interview process involves candidates receiving a list of attribute-based questions in advance. This has been proven to help neurodiverse candidates and others to perform better at interview and is part of our inclusive culture.
You can read more about Attributes in Ofwat’s Framework for Success.
As part of the interview process, we will require short presentation. Further details will be provided to shortlisted candidates upon invitation to interview.
Please note that the interviews will be conducted via video conferencing software (Microsoft Teams), or in person in our Birmingham City Centre office.
Please ensure anything you present in your interview answers is factually accurate, and you are not presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by AI, as your own. You may expect follow up questions.
If you have any queries about any aspect of this role, selection process, or you require any reasonable adjustments please email recruitment@ofwat.gov.uk.
It may be necessary for a second stage interview, which will be communicated to the successful candidates, if required. If the assessment process identifies more appointable candidates than roles available, a reserve list will be created for 12 months from which further appointments in merit order can be made.
Please read the attached "Candidate Information Pack" for details on terms and conditions.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : recruitment@ofwat.gov.uk
- Email : recruitment@ofwat.gov.uk
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- Email : recruitment@ofwat.gov.uk
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