Resourcing Expert
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Job Title: Resourcing Expert
Salary: £35,859 to £43,329 plus £2,623 or £1,518 allowance depending on location. You will receive £35,859 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £43,329 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Empress State building West Brompton (to relocate to Kilburn Police Station late 2020)
You will build relationships with key business stakeholders (hiring managers) and act as the specialist point of contact to offer guidance, advice, support and promote forward thinking on strategic workforce and resourcing plans. Leading and coordinating the regular analysis of internal and external talent pools to meet the needs of the business – addressing both current and future organisational needs.
The role holder will:
- Implement the recruitment polices and governance framework as defined by the Head of Resourcing and Digital Marketing and Communications (DMC) team. You will have a key role in defining recruitment campaign briefs and the overall campaign objectives.
- Work closely with HR colleagues to ensure the provision of a seamless and joined up end-to-end selection, recruitment and promotion services to the organisation. Appointing and working effectively with 3rd party providers for the management of recruitment & attraction campaigns and the supply of permanent and interim staff. The role of resourcing experts also extends to providing strategic guidance and advice on candidate management to hiring managers. Generally being an advocate for change and innovation, looking at new ideas for the business in terms of resourcing approaches and service delivery.
- Work as a resourcing project manager in overseeing and developing selection and recruitment processes in conjunction with hiring managers and third party providers. Coaching and advising managers on the implementation of robust processes and being sensitive to the issues of diversity and inclusion (D&I) – intervening as needed to illuminate unconscious bias and/or promote positive action. Developing toolkits for the business to use going forward to enable it to become more self-sufficient in delivering selection and recruitment activity.
- Acting as the recruitment subject matter expert and the project manager on employee resourcing interventions to provide innovative, cost effective and timely solutions. Devising and implementing recruitment plans, campaigns and promotion processes within agreed deadlines, ensuring local management and hiring managers are properly engaged, advised and informed. Working with Customer Relationship Lead (HROS) to help improve the customer experience or recruitment and selection processes.
- Have day to day contact with recruitment project lead(s) from within the HR Resourcing hub in addition to regularly engagement with local management (including hiring managers) to review and assess the nature of the resourcing requirement and for addressing the challenge of filling hard to fill roles. In addition to regular contact with SSCL (the out-sourced provider of volume recruitment activity).
- Work collaboratively in conjunction with the Customer Relationship Manager (HR Operations) to improve the client and candidate experience through identifying, issues, trends and undertaking improvement action as needed
- Keep up to date with external trends and best practice in resourcing/talent. Providing a high-touch expert service for senior managers in relation to senior appointments.
- Support benchmarking activity to ensure selection and recruitment activity is applied consistently and fairly. Advising the business on when and how to initiate positive action interventions.
- Advise and guide hiring managers as assigned, on the use of marketing techniques (including the associated costs) to improve levels of attraction and create robust talent pipelines for hard to fill roles. Showing due regard to the impact on the perception of the Met and the value of its employer brand. Engaging with third party providers as needed to assist with marketing and attraction interventions. For “gold” service – taking primary responsibility for undertaking market research into target audiences, developing the attraction strategy, commissioning creatives, developing the media strategy and placing media rests with the outsourced provider.
- Working pro-actively and undertaking “horizon scanning” to anticipate and adapt to changes in the employment market. Keeping abreast of recruitment legislation and case law, ensuring that the Met’s recruitment activity meets statutory requirements and adheres to best practice.
- Oversee the use of internal and external job advertisement sites to ensure information provided is accurate and complies with site regulations/protocols, whilst evaluating and reporting progress against resourcing activity to demonstrate effectiveness and value.
- Guide managers on the optimum use of resources, monitoring the use of temporary workers to ensure effective deployment and minimise costs.
- Ensure internal and external audit requirements in relation to recruitment processes are satisfied.
- Build relationships and forming alliances with external counterparts, communities of practice and stakeholders to scan for innovations and opportunities to form partnerships.
- Undertake quarterly reviews of toolkits provided to the outsourced providers – providing updates as necessary.
- There will be adhoc and formal meetings with a various senior clients up to and including Ch Supt & Band A level (HR Business Partners) to ensure resourcing interventions are business focused and fit for purpose.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23.55pm 24th January 2020.
To apply, please visit our website to download a role-specific information pack, and complete an online application form with supporting CV and Personal Statement.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Essential Criteria:
- A degree or equivalent level 6 qualification or relevant experience in resourcing/recruitment.
- The ability to work within a matrix management framework - initiating and managing projects recruitment/selection related projects.
- Established skills as an HR generalist with a background in having delivered core HR activity (e.g. recruitment/selection and/or workforce planning)
- Excellent management skills - supporting, shaping and driving activity in support of HR related activity within business functions.
- Highly developed team-working skills - with a record of contributing to successful team working within an HR context.
- The ability to consider the bigger picture at all times, observing the connections between different strands of HR delivery.
- The confidence to raise risks with peers and managers that may affect the long term reputation of the function and organisation.
- Established time management and organisation skills contributing to the timely and cost effective delivery of recruitment/selection interventions.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to establish cohesive relationships with stakeholders across a business area.
- The post holder must have the ability to communicate information effectively both verbally and in writing to colleagues at different levels across the MPS.
Knowledge:
- Good practical knowledge of the range of tools and techniques that are required in an HR role, for example: identifying trends, identifying the issues that may impact on design of policies/interventions.
- Understanding and being able to describe the HR related issues relating to specific parts of the organisation as well as understanding the wider MPS context.
- An established insight of how things really work in the organisation and the barriers to change.
- Harnessing IT: a good practical knowledge of My HR, PSOP, MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Word.
Experience:
- Working closely with business based line management providing advice on HR issues.
- A track record of having worked in an environment that has supported the design and implementation of successful people interventions.
- Proven experience of having managed people and other resources effectively and efficiently.
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.