Talent & Resourcing Senior Manager
Birmingham (with hybrid working)
We are looking for a Talent & Resourcing Senior Manager to join and manage our Talent & Resourcing team.
The Benefits:
- Salary of circa £53,000
- Civil service pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
- Flexible working
- 26 days' holiday, rising to 29 days after two years' service, with the option to buy up to five days extra annual leave
Your Role:
As a key member of the People Services Team, you will play a crucial role in attracting, sourcing, selecting ad retaining top talent to meet the evolving needs of the Commission.
You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and embedding a holistic Talent Acquisition strategy to support and enable our emerging people strategy and Commission objectives. You will understand the public sector market we operate in, while bringing a dynamic approach to our resourcing needs. You will grasp external factors that influence market trends and be confident in presenting our employer offer and branding to attract talented people to the Commission.
You will support and bring to life our workforce plan, reward objectives, and employee value proposition strategy.
Key Responsibilities - You will:
- Identify improvements and areas of development within the recruitment and on boarding process
- Monitor our recruitment budget and spend, working closely with finance colleagues
- Collaborate with leaders to design and implement careers programmes, including internships, apprenticeships, work experience, and graduate recruitment initiatives as well as outreach initiatives to schools, colleges, and universities
- Take a lead in maximising recruitment avenues by developing and identifying future opportunities for internal and external secondments. This will involve building strong relationships with the government Department for Culture, Media and Sport and other similar organisations
- Develop and maintain a talent pipeline to support future hiring needs
- Support our talent and careers plan across all business areas, shaping careers of new and existing colleagues including supporting to build long-term talent acquisition and retention plans which support our ambitions on workforce planning
- Collaborate with hiring managers to make data-driven decisions on candidate selection.
- Advise on and implement attraction and selection plans for the recruitment of critical roles and planned campaigns
- Develop effective selection methods, tools, and resources to ensure that selection of colleagues and candidate experience meets agreed performance measures and are in line with our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy outcomes
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with external and internal stakeholders, including Civil Service Maintain agency contracts using internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to building and enhancing our employer brand through employee value proposition initiatives and targeted marketing strategies, working in partnership with internal communications
- Ensure that our organisational culture is represented accurately in recruitment materials and interactions with candidates, demonstrating our total reward strategy and working environment
- Work with marketing and communication teams to ensure our employer brand is well represented in all forms of media
- Develop effective programmatic and strategic employee campaigns about our organisational culture, flexibility, benefits and learning and development, to bring to life our employee offer, supporting retention of talented individuals
- Use data analytics and reporting tools to tract and evaluate recruitment metrics, making data-driven decisions to continuously improve the hiring process
- Generate regular reports to share progress, achievements, and challenges with the Executive Team and senior leaders
- Analyse the effectiveness of resourcing activity, collecting feedback from participants and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement
- Use innovation, data, insight, and a strong external network to ensure we are competitive within the market, understand what's working in other businesses/sectors, and bring ideas and fresh thinking to your role
- Stay informed about Employment Laws and regulations ensuring all recruitment activities comply with legal standards
Person Specification
- Public sector recruitment knowledge
- Experience developing and implementing talent acquisition strategies to attract diverse and high-quality candidates
- Analytical and critical thinking skills
- The ability to evaluate and manage conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment with senior level leaders
- Data orientated with experience of using data to influence our initiatives and actions
- Strong organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills
About Us:
Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.
The closing date for this role is Monday 29th April 2024.
PLEASE NOTE: ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visas currently.
We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the number of responses received.
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