Recruitment Campaign Manager

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.  

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.  

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us stronger and better at developing policy that reflects the needs of every community. We embrace different views and experiences and value the new perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.  

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you! 

Economics Group

The Economics Group leads HM Treasury’s analysis of developments in the UK economy and advises ministers on the implications for the Government’s economic strategy. It provides expert economic analysis and advice for Ministers. The Group’s data hub is transforming how the Treasury uses data across its entire business. The Group collaborates with external experts on the UK economy, including the Bank of England, Office for Budget Responsibility and leading academics. Economics Group provides support for the UK Government’s economics and social research professions, including running centralised recruitment and the annual conferences.

About the Team

The Government Economic and Social Research Team (GESR) is a friendly and dynamic team providing specific support to the Government Social Research (GSR) and Government Economic Service (GES) professions, which have over 2,500 and 3,700 members across government, respectively. Economists and social researchers work at the heart of decision-making in government, providing analysis and insight in support of the entire range of UK Government and public service activities.    

GESR’s work also reaches right across government – working with Departments, Devolved Administrations, and other organisations in the UK Civil Service. We work with external organisations as partners on shared agendas including growing diversity in recruitment and improving the use of evidence in policy making.  

The team is organised into a Strategy and an Operations team, who together deliver all the policies and commitments in the GES and GSR Strategies on behalf of and in conjunction with the Boards of senior staff who govern both professions. on behalf of and in conjunction with the Boards of senior staff who govern both professions.

The GESR team leads the many central recruitment routes into the professions, ensuring that we open the door to a wide range of people to start and then build a long-standing career as government economists and social researchers. This talent focused role is essential to helping us seek and support a diverse profession, enabling progression and a fulfilling career.

Continuous improvement – finding ways to do things better and then delivering them – is central to the way we work. Diversity and inclusion of people and ideas is at the heart of all we do, and you must also be committed to role modelling the positive and inclusive behaviours we expect of our membership.

The postholder has the advantages that come from both working inside HM Treasury, and from working right across the differing departments and organisations that make up the UK Government. This is the ideal post for an individual who can see the bigger picture and wishes to build more experience of working with senior leaders and delivering real cross-government change. 

About the Job

Do you have experience of delivering a high standard of service within a recruitment environment? Are you proactive and customer-focused? If so we’d love to hear from you!

Are you excited by the prospect of leading large scale recruitment campaigns?

We provide resourcing for the Government Economics Service (GES) and Government Social Research (GSR) across the Civil Service. Our work is fundamental in ensuring continuity and quality for this established profession. .

This is an excellent opportunity to join our team delivering economics and social research recruitment in the operations team for the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team. The role offers the opportunity to work across government with a variety of partners. We provide a professional and effective service that meets business needs and quality standards. There is a large degree of operational delivery within this role, it also has an important focus on quality assurance and continuous improvement. You will act as the campaign manager for allocated GES/GSR recruitment schemes, building strong working relationships with the Recruitment Manager and the Head of Recruitment.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the Head of Recruitment and Recruitment Manager in the planning of end-to-end processes for the centralised GES/GSR recruitment schemes, to provide timely and high-quality resources across the Civil Service, on a yearly basis. 
• Lead your allocated campaign and actively manage all steps of the recruitment process, including the communication to candidates, the interaction with partners across the Civil Service and the actions on the digital applicant tracking system i.e. Vx/Oleeo.
• Build strong relationships with recruitment partners and support the continuous improvement of resourcing processes in line with employment legislation, Civil Service Recruitment Principles and recruitment compliance reports.
• Contribute to recruitment campaign reporting – Information management, briefing and analysis of diversity data as appropriate, to allow delivery of the GESR recruitment strategy.
• Act as first point of contact from members of the public and GESR associates by responding to recruitment queries via the GESR shared mailboxes, providing expert advice or solutions to recruitment concerns.
• Manage HR data regarding assessors and other recruitment parties, by keeping internal and external records updated, preparing and interpreting basic HR reports.
• Be proficient in planning and prioritisation techniques, to be able to support management effectively, to maintain, develop and implement HR systems, including VX/Oleeo, to enable effective delivery of recruitment work across the team.

The above is an outline of the responsibilities and activities within the role. It is not exhaustive and may vary over time with changes in organisational priorities.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact Sarah Ward sarah.ward@hmtreasury.gov.uk

We are looking for the below skills, experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form.  

You will be assessed on the following criteria:

1. Experience of delivering a high standard of service within a volume recruitment environment, meeting defined quality and efficiency requirements (Experience)

2. Ability to communicate clear and concise information effectively to a variety of stakeholders, doing so pro-actively and through various mediums (Communicating and Influencing).

3. Capable of coordinating and managing your workload autonomously in a deadline driven environment, reacting appropriately to changing and conflicting needs (Delivering at Pace).
 
The lead criteria is: Experience
 
If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criteria only.

Candidate Guidance Support Session 
 
We will be running an overview of Success Profiles and the STAR approach; top tips for the application and interview process and an opportunity to ask general questions around our recruitment practices. If you would like to join us, then use the link below to join the call at the right time.  

Thursday 9th November 2023 12:30 – 13:00hrs Click here to join the meeting

Monday 20th November 2023 17:30 – 18:00hrs Click here to join the meeting

At interview stage, you will be assessed on the below criteria:

• Experience
• Strengths

Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

• 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)

• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)

• Generous parental and adoption leave package

• Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room

• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving

• Access to a retail discounts and cashback site

• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes

• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network).

Flexible working arrangements:   HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing.

HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites – Darlington, London, and Norwich, with the expectation of achieving 50% attendance in the office as a minimum requirement, along with the flexibility of working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.

Job contact :

• Name : Sarah Ward
• Email : sarah.ward@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk