Recruitment Partner
| Posting date: | 01 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 430508/1 |
Summary
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you make a real difference?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
We are looking for a Recruitment Partner to join the Promotion and Sourcing Team within the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Recruitment Hub. This dynamic team provides expert recruitment advice and support to hiring managers across the central department (DfTc) and executive agencies.
As a Recruitment Partner, you will coach and advise hiring managers by understanding their requirements and applying your knowledge of the market to design the most effective attraction and assessment strategy.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Build and maintain excellent relationships with hiring managers and business units to understand their recruitment and strategic requirements
- Use data and expert knowledge to design effective attraction and assessment strategies. This includes market data, diversity and inclusion data, and success rates of previous campaigns
- Create eye-catching and accurate jobs adverts that will attract the right candidates for the role
- For difficult to fill roles, build and utilise your networks to proactively source the best candidates
- Support hiring managers throughout the recruitment and onboarding processes, ensuring that they know what to do by providing relevant guidance and training material.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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