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We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Do you have the expertise to lead a dynamic and diverse resourcing service?
Can you confidently negotiate, challenge, and influence at a strategic level?
Are you experienced in transforming ways of working through the use of digital technology?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
Job description
As the Head of the DfT Resourcing Group (DRG), you will be responsible for the resourcing activities for six business units, namely the central department (DfTc) and five executive agencies (DVLA, DVSA, MCA, VCA and ATE).
With a total workforce of over 15,000 in roles ranging from driving test examiners, HM Coastguard, policy professionals, caseworkers and digital experts, your team support over 100 very different recruitment campaigns each month.
Each organisation relies heavily on recruitment to build the capabilities they need for the future and attract new talent. You will play a vital role in providing a recruitment service which supports their organisational objectives now and in the future.
You will lead a professional, customer focused, resourcing service incorporating:
- Recruitment services and delivering solutions for permanent and temporary resource
- Capacity management of the operational team to deliver the service
- Supplier management
- Compliance as a Civil Service recruiter.
This is an exciting time to join the department as we embark on DfTs Recruitment and Onboarding Programme. This programme will identify and implement process and technology solutions to improve the recruitment and onboarding experiences for both internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead the delivery of a service that is effective in both reactively and proactively resourcing DfT
- Ensure that the service is delivering to agreed key performance indicators, monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of resourcing processes
- Ensure that recruitment (permanent and temporary) as a Civil Service employer is compliant with legal and other regulatory requirements including the Civil Service Recruitment Principles
- Promote team engagement, professionalism and capability building at all levels within the team.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile
Person specification
About You
You will come with resourcing expertise which will enable you to successfully lead a professional and customer focused resourcing service. You will ensure objectives are clear and support these by managing relationships where this requires navigating conflicting views and priorities.
Using your influencing skills, you will be able to consult and negotiate at an operational and strategic level with key stakeholders on HR related issues.
Being an advocate for continuous improvement, you will implement and work with leading-edge technology and HR systems to transform ways of working and deliver an efficient first-class service to our customers.
At an operational and strategic level, you will use data and information to manage delivery and provide evidenced based insight. You will also be able to use data to highlight risks and feed them into strategic resourcing plans.
Additional Information
A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
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How to Apply
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role. Please tailor your CV to match the role and its responsibilities and within your Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Applying expert knowledge of resourcing to lead a professional, customer focused, resourcing service
- Building and managing relationships and partnerships including influencing, consulting and negotiating at an operational and strategic level
- Using data to shape service delivery
- Promoting digitally enabled service delivery.
As part of the application you will also be asked to provide 250 words around the behaviour Leadership.
In the event of needing to further shortlist candidates, a lead criteria will be applied. This will be experience: applying expert knowledge of resourcing to lead a professional, customer focused, resourcing service.
The sift is due to take place week commencing 9th October 2023.
Assessments are likely to be held from week commencing 23rd October 2023, followed by an interview which is likely to take place week commencing 30th October 2023.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- A staff engagement exercise and an interview
More information will be provided to you if you are invited to the assessment stage. The staff engagement exercise will not result in a pass or fail decision.
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
Youre encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the Assistance required section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
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If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Sarah Casey
- Email : sarah.casey@dft.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website Here
