Defence Digital – Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Are you an experienced Talent Acquisition specialist within the digital field? Would you thrive working in a dynamic fast paced environment, recruiting talented individuals to deliver some of Defence’s most critical priorities? 

Interested? If so, Come and Grow Your Career in Defence Digital. 

We are Defence Digital, part of UK Strategic Command, fulfilling an important role in the age of information warfare within the Ministry of Defence (MOD). We provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via various communication means, including radio, satellite and internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we’re aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world.  

As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will be a key member of the Talent Acquisition Team, part of the organisations HR team, who you’ll be working closely with.

This post is advertised at 37 hours per week. 

Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities.  Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

The Talent Acquisition Team are responsible for the delivery of the Defence Digital recruitment strategy, including the attraction and selection of roles within the government Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) profession. 

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Lead, the post holder will provide a professional and effective service to secure top talent for our Digital vacancies. Your focus will be on volume recruitment where you will be responsible for managing the recruitment life cycle from campaign planning to securing a successful candidate. You’ll be acting as a subject matter expert, providing key stakeholders with advice and guidance, ensuring adherence to MOD and Civil Service recruitment policy, whilst also ensuring time to hire is kept to a minimum. You will be actively promoting Defence Digital as an employer of choice, whilst also providing an exceptional candidate journey and experience. 

As a strong Digital Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will be detail focused and process driven, and well accustomed to working in a fast-paced resourcing environment. You will be confident managing a number of recruitment campaigns at any one time whilst delivering a first-class service to both stakeholders and candidates alike. You will have a good track record of campaign planning, direct sourcing, candidate generation methodologies and attraction methods for both volume and niche recruitment. You will also have a proven ability in writing compelling job adverts and enjoy using your initiative and drive to provide resourcing solutions within given parameters.

You will ideally be REC qualified or be willing to work towards gaining this qualification whilst in post.

Responsibilities 

• Produce campaign plans ensuring volume recruitment is used where possible and timelines are effective to ensure time to hire is kept to a minimum.
• Write compelling job adverts using Head of Profession Role Profiles.
• Working with the social media manager, determine optimal job advertising mix, including job boards, careers pages and social networks.
• Craft sourcing strategies through online channels and forums. Attend career fairs and other outreach events to maximise reach.
• Carry out Learning from Experience on all campaigns to enable management information and reporting and improve resourcing processes.
• Using Strategic workforce Plans, forward plan future recruitment requirements and build a pipeline of talent for critical hires and hard to fill future roles.
• Manage the bulk campaign process partnering with or Heads of Communities and line managers to ensure quality and consistency of hire.

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable experience of working within a fast-paced Talent Acquisition environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience of partnering and consultation.
• Experience in job advert creation and placement.
• Experience of direct sourcing.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Ability to drive diversity amongst applicants and talent pools.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

• 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%
• On-site parking, sports facilities, staff restaurant and coffee shop
• Hybrid working

Hybrid Working

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.  This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estates capacity.  Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another MOD workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). 

The post does not offer relocation expenses. 

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period. 

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD 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/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

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Job contact :

• Name : Defence Digital Talent Acquisition Team
• Email : UKStratComDD-HR-TalentAcqDel@mod.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk