Recruitment Manager
HM Treasury
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 20th October 2024
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If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.
Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.
We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you!
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About the Group
Economics Group
The Economics Group leads HM Treasury’s analysis of developments in the UK economy and advises ministers on the implications for the Government’s economic strategy. It provides expert economic analysis and advice for Ministers. The Group’s data hub is transforming how the Treasury uses data across its entire business. The Group collaborates with external experts on the UK economy, including the Bank of England, Office for Budget Responsibility and leading academics. Economics Group provides support for the UK Government’s economic and social research professions, including running centralised recruitment and the annual conferences.
About the Team
The Government Economic and Social Research Team (GESR) is a friendly and dynamic team of around 20 people providing specific support to the Government Social Research (GSR) and Government Economic Service (GES) professions, which have over 2,500 and 3,700 members across government, respectively. Economists and social researchers work at the heart of decision-making in government, providing analysis and insight in support of the entire range of UK Government and public service activities.
GESR's work also reaches right across government - working with Departments, Devolved Administrations, and other organisations in the UK Civil Service. We work with external organisations as partners on shared agendas including growing diversity in recruitment and improving the use of evidence in policy making.
The team is organised into a Strategy and an Operations team, who together deliver all the policies and commitments in the GES and GSR Strategies on behalf of and in conjunction with the Boards of senior staff who govern both professions. on behalf of and in conjunction with the Boards of senior staff who govern both professions.
The GESR team leads the many central recruitment routes into the professions, working to open the door to a wide range of people to start and then build a long and fulfilling career as government economists and social researchers.
We are committed to delivering a quality service to continuous improvement and to promoting diversity and inclusion. You must also be committed to role modelling the positive and inclusive behaviours we expect of our membership.
About the Role
Are you experienced in civil service recruitment?
Are you excited by the prospect of co-ordinating large scale recruitment campaigns?
The post holder will have the advantages that come from building their career inside HM Treasury, and from working right across the differing departments and organisations that make up the UK Government. This is the ideal post for an individual who can see the bigger picture and wishes to build more experience of working with senior leaders and delivering real cross-government change.
We provide resourcing for the Government Economics Service (GES) and Government Social Research (GSR) across the Civil Service. Our work is fundamental in ensuring continuity and quality for these established professions. GES Economists provide economic analysis and insight in support of the entire range of UK Government and public service activities. Supporting policy development, public service delivery, ministerial objectives, or meeting at pace the issues of the day. GSR is the analytical profession within Government for Civil Servants who generate and provide social and behavioural research and advice.
This is an excellent opportunity to join our team managing recruitment in the operations team for the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team. The role offers the opportunity to work across government with a variety of partners. We provide a professional and effective service that meets business needs and quality standards. There is a large degree of operational delivery & team leadership within this role, it also has an important focus on quality assurance and continuous improvement. You will act as the delivery manager of all GES and GSR recruitment campaigns building strong working relationships with the campaign manager for each scheme to deliver as a team.
Key Accountabilities for this role include:
- Plan and manage delivery of the end-to-end process for all centralised GES and GSR recruitment schemes to provide timely and high quality resources to fill upwards of 500 vacancies a year across 40 departments, agencies and ALBs.
- Manage GESR recruitment systems, including VX, to ensure processes are working effectively for end users, the recruitment team are appropriately trained and end user guidance and standard operating procedures are up to date.
- Ensure the shared inbox is monitored daily by the team, ensuring excellent customer service in line with agreed turnaround times.
- Support the Head of GES Resourcing, covering core duties during leave periods and provide support to the Recruitment Campaign Managers, problem solving or highlighting issues as required.
- Manage and maintain detailed recruitment project plans, monitor performance against KPIs and agreed standards.
- Plan and implement regular lessons learned activities to ensure continuous improvement of recruitment processes, including adapting to new technologies including Artificial Intelligence.
- Support implementation of improvements to the recruitment process, streamlining and updating processes and documents.
- Develop and coach the team of two recruitment campaign managers and one recruitment business support in sharing your knowledge and expertise, building capability and confidence, to ensure the effective delivery of day to day recruitment campaigns.
- Role model inclusive leadership and ensure the team understands their role in building a diverse and inclusive organisation
- Liaise with GESR website manager to ensure accurate, attractive and timely content is available on internal and external website content for GES and GSR campaigns.
- To provide ad hoc support to the GESR Finance Manager as required.
Person specification
We are looking for the below experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form.
You will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Experience: Evidence of successfully delivering bulk recruitment campaigns.
- Delivering at pace – to include regularly monitoring your own and team’s work against milestones and acting promptly to reassess workloads and priorities when there are conflicting demands to maintain performance.
- Leadership – to include, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders have a clear understanding of objectives, activities and time-frames.
- Managing a Quality Service – to include successfully delivering high quality outcomes that meet the customer’s needs and maintaining systems and services to ensure delivery of professional excellence.
The lead criterion is: Experience: Evidence of successfully delivering bulk recruitment campaigns.
If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.
Candidate Guidance Support Session
We will be running an overview of Success Profiles and the STAR approach including top tips for the application and interview process and an opportunity to ask general questions around our recruitment practices. Please note that this session is not role specific, so we will be unable to answer specific questions about roles we are advertising. If you would like to join us, please use the link below to join the call at the right time.
Thursday 17th October at 12:30: Join the meeting now
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
- Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
- Generous parental and adoption leave package.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28%
- Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
- Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
- Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
- A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
- A range of active staff networks, based around interests and diversity
Flexible Working Arrangements
HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they can enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; part-time, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees the flexibility to adjust their working patterns throughout the week which is subject to operational needs and line management approval.
At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff can realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites - Darlington, London, and Norwich, and along with the rest of the Civil Service, has an expectation of a minimum of 60% attendance in the office, along with working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.
The office working expectation is linked to the location of the role. If you apply to a post in a single location, then you will not be able to meet this expectation at any of our other sites or move your role to another location.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Recruitment Timeline
Closing date: 20th October
Shortlisting: w/c 21st October
Interviews: w/c 4th November
This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.
If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.
Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.
Location-Based Reserve Lists
You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a post immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be approached for roles in merit order according to the first preferred location stated on your application form.
Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer. We would still encourage you to apply for other HM Treasury opportunities that you are interested in. If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or you are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.
Eligibility Statement
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information.
Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Counter Terrorist Check (CTC)
To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis once the advert closing date has passed.
Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you. Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.
These short videos address common concerns and preconceptions which applicants may have about national security vetting. If you have questions relating to security clearances, please contact HMTSecurityVetting@hmtreasury.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Job contact :
- Name : GESR Recruitment
- Email : gesrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk
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- Email : hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk
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