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Resourcing Policy Lead

Job details
Posting date: 07 August 2024
Salary: £52,412 to £63,517 per year
Additional salary information: National Min: £52,412 - Max: £63,517
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 19 August 2024
Location: Sheffield
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 365045/5

Summary

The Resourcing Centre of Expertise (RCoE) is a small, established team within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) whose purpose is to use resourcing expertise, insights, and tools to enable the attraction and retention of people with the right skills and experience, and who are representative of the communities we serve, to support delivery of DWP’s Departmental Plan.

The team has a wide-ranging impact, leading activity on resourcing policy, corporate recruitment attraction, diversity in recruitment, resourcing governance, and resourcing projects.

The Resourcing Policy Lead is a key role within the RCoE and the job holder will be pivotal in shaping and ensuring our resourcing policies and procedures are in line with current legislation and meet business requirements. You will work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels and be responsible for the development, maintenance, and strategic oversight of resourcing policy.

As a Resourcing Policy Lead you will help review and impact external legislation changes and proposed innovations to our recruitment processes ensuring they are compliant with employment law and Civil Service Commission rules.

If you have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enjoy working in an ever-changing, fast paced environment and possess a drive to improve DWP’s resourcing policies we would love to receive your application.

Please note that this is a part time role to work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week. There is currently Resourcing Policy cover in the wider Resourcing Centre of Expertise team from Wednesday to Friday and the successful individual will work alongside the current resource.

Shaping policy that touches lives across the UK. That’s our purpose.

As a Resourcing Policy Lead you will be responsible for:

  • The development, maintenance and strategic oversight of resourcing policy and guidance including knowledge management, communications and upskilling for resourcing and HR.
  • Impacting proposed changes to recruitment or workforce management processes, or new initiatives from the Cabinet Office/Government People Group, ensuring policy implications and risks are understood, and policy changes implemented and communicated where required.
  • Providing guidance and policy interpretation, as well as seeking specific Civil Service Commission and legal advice to inform decisions, ad hoc solutions to resourcing issues and new approaches, to enable successful delivery of business priorities (i.e. delivering operational recruitment or estates transformation programme).
  • Working collaboratively across People and Capability Directorate with HR Business Partners, HR Casework Team and Resource Account Managers as well as across Government with Government People Group, Other Government Departments, and the Civil Service Commission to understand wider resourcing trends, identify common issues and share best practice.
  • Dealing with complex cases and recruitment scenarios escalated via the Service Delivery model from the HR Casework Team and the Policy Knowledge Leads.
  • Ensuring compliance with Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles, DWP resourcing policies and employment law, proactively addressing issues and escalating concerns where required.