Attraction & Resourcing Lead
Government Property Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 13th October 2024
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Job summary
The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.
Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people. Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smart Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices.
This is an ambitious and exciting task, for which we need innovative people, with strong commercial acumen, who are passionate about visualising and implementing customer needs. Launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018, we’re a relatively new department and we are growing fast so we also need people who thrive in ambiguity, can adapt quickly to change and are comfortable stepping outside of their remit to drive outcomes.
The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.
To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Job description
Reporting to the Head of HR Operations, the post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of the GPA’s Attraction and Resourcing Strategy. This role provides the opportunity to directly influence, support and guide hiring managers across the organisation to resource their teams in the most appropriate way. Leading a small team you will deliver the full end to end recruitment cycle, provide data and insights that will shape the future approach, as well as oversee and ensure compliant engagement of temporary workers.
The post-holder will be proactive in promoting an efficient, effective and consistent talent attraction service and have the scope and autonomy to bring their own experience and ideas contributing to continuous improvement through a fundamental and thorough review of recruitment practices and processes. They will demonstrate excellent client relationship management and have the gravitas and commercial acumen to establish credibility with senior management to successfully deliver timely and high quality recruitment solutions.
This is a fast-paced, challenging and exciting role, with high visibility across the GPA at all levels. We are looking for a talented, proactive and experienced attraction and recruitment professional, preferably with an understanding of wider public sector HR policies and practices and great stakeholder engagement skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading, managing and providing guidance to the Recruitment team, coordinating their workload and unblocking issues to provide consistent, professional and innovative services to all managers across the GPA.
- Managing end-to-end recruitment life cycle, identifying risks and taking actions to mitigate them.
- Monitoring success of campaigns against requirements and suggesting ways to improve the recruitment, selection and attraction process to hiring managers.
- Managing the relationship with the Government Recruitment Service (GRS) and specialist recruitment agencies, ensuring that KPIs are met and robust management information is gathered in order to shape and influence future activity.
- Monitoring central recruitment spend against budget and ensuring that accurate and timely volume forecasts are provided.
- Maintaining an overview of the use of temporary resources across the organisation, working to ensure that GPA achieves the best value for money from us of contingent labour and managing the relationships with PSR and agencies.
- Ensuring a high quality candidate journey by reviewing GPA’s existing attraction and recruitment policies and processes and making evidence-based proposals for changes and improvements.
- Providing guidance and support to hiring managers through effective deployment of the team and drawing upon their own experience of the recruitment principles in the Civil Service.
- Undertaking a root and branch review of attraction and recruitment policies, practices and processes across the GPA and subsequently implementing any resulting changes, including training of HR colleagues and hiring managers, and publishing guidance.
- Leading the grading assessment process for the GPA, including ensuring that assessment outcomes are consistent, ensuring that there are sufficient trained assessors and developing and implementing a tracking system for outcomes.
- Developing and owning a process to ensure that complaint about the recruitment process are managed in the most appropriate way.
- Ensuring that candidates are fully engaged throughout their on-boarding journey, with regular touch-points and resolving emerging issues quickly and effectively.
Person specification
Experience & Technical skills
Essential criteria:
- Proven and demonstrable experience in an attraction and recruitment setting.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced, complex environment and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Strong organisational skills and horizon scanning: balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Ability to build effective relationships with a diverse and senior range of internal and external stakeholders demonstrating the skills to challenge assumptions and influence direction..
Desirable criteria:
- An understanding of Civil Service Recruitment Principles and practices.
Qualifications & Accreditations
Essential:
- MCIPD qualified, or willing to work towards this as soon as possible.
Qualifications
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Customer Perspective
- Commercial Acumen
- Property Market Knowledge
- Innovation
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Generous annual leave
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Selection process details
Sift
The sift is due to take place on the 18th October 2024.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to include a CV and a 1000-word personal statement. The personal statement should then align with the person specification.
Interview
Applicants successful at sift will be invited to interviews, which are due to take place on the 8th November 2024 in the Birmingham office. You must be willing to travel to any of the GPA locations for your interview. If you are unable to attend a face to face interview due to extenuating circumstances, we advise that you reach out to the recruitment admin team to find out if alternative means can be arranged prior to submitting your application.
At interview, applicants will be scored against 4 behaviours - Managing a Quality Service, Communicating and Influencing, Changing & Improving, and Delivering at Pace.
Interview questions will be a blend of Behaviour, Experience, Strength, and Technical (core skill) questions.
Reasonable Adjustment
If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
Contact Government Recruitment Service via gparecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to Government Property Agency from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Current Civil Servants (all contract types) will need to ensure that they are still employed as a civil servant at the point of starting in the relevant new post. If their contract ends (e.g. end of FTA contract or resignation) at any point during the recruitment/onboarding process for the advertised role, they will no longer be eligible and may be withdrawn.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Sue Goldfinch
- Email : recruitment@gpa.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : gparecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission:
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