Recruitment Manager opportunity

Principal purpose of the role:

To lead, manage and develop the Recruitment team, enabling the delivery of a first-class professional and customer focussed recruitment service, responsive to the evolving needs of the organisation. To provide, as the subject matter expert, specialist recruitment advice, driving a recruitment strategy that focusses on enhancing the employer brand and candidate experience.

Ensuring the future workforce needs are articulated and embedded in recruitment activity and across the People Directorate; this includes the development of resourcing plans to attract and retain a broad and diverse community of talent, in both recruitment campaigns and through succession planning and promotion processes.

Main activities of the role (This list is not exhaustive):

• Lead the Recruitment team to deliver outstanding customer experience through efficient and effective recruitment processes.
• Effectively communicate with the team and recruiting managers through solutions-focussed briefing and reporting. Act as the escalation point on all issues related to candidate and manager experience and engage the team in continuous improvement.
• As the subject matter expert, advise on recruitment strategy and sourcing techniques for all recruitment campaigns, monitoring and evaluating their effectiveness. Develop effective recruitment plans to meet the specific requirements of individuals teams or specialisms.
• Develop an appropriate positive action strategy and undertake engagement with internal networks and external groups.
• Drive innovative multi-channel approaches to recruitment and resourcing, developing a strategy for the beneficial use of social media and leading on marketing strategies to attract a broad and diverse community of talent.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative and professional relationships with HR colleagues and key stakeholders throughout the Constabularies to understand and identify organisational strategy and priorities, advising on a broad range of recruitment and retention strategies and talent initiatives such as succession planning.
• Proactively utilise technology to improve customer experience and service delivery; this includes accountability for the delivery and maintenance of the Constabularies Careers website and the recruitment system.
• Ensure recruitment MI is updated and accurate (e.g., recruitment metrics, media effectiveness) and use MI reporting to proactively develop and improve resourcing solutions and processes.
• Analysis of recruitment MI to proactively identify issues and develop a range of initiatives to meet the challenges.
• Build knowledge of the competitor market and identify strong talent within the marketplace.
• Regularly network externally to bring new ideas and initiative back to the Constabularies that will improve the recruitment strategy and process. This includes engagement with other local public service providers to share knowledge and recruitment campaigns as appropriate.
• Work closely with Learning & Development to ensure resourcing plans are aligned to the development of new education and training pathways from the College of Policing.
• Any other duties that are commensurate with the role and grade as may be requested by management.