Location: Birmingham, Leeds, Swansea (Hybrid)

Salary: £34,233 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Job share, Part-time

The Capability and Compliance Team within the Department for Transport (DfT) Resourcing Group supports hiring managers across the central department and executive agencies (DVLA, DVSA, VCA, MCA, ATE). We equip them with the skills and tools needed to run compliant, effective recruitment campaigns that align with the Department’s strategic goals.

This is a part-time position (17 hours per week) for a Capability and Compliance Partner to join team, you will be responsible for ensuring that hiring managers have the training and tools required to run their own recruitment campaigns, including for contractor recruitment. This will involve working with business areas to identify gaps in knowledge and address these, as well as using data provided by the team on common queries and issues.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Build and maintain excellent relationships with hiring managers and business units to understand their recruitment and strategic requirements
• Ensure that your team is working within agreed service levels for activities, including responding the hiring manager queries and conducting quality checks
• Identify and share recruitment trends with the wider team

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience of working in a recruitment function with good knowledge of the recruitment process
• Experience of working within a high-pressured and fast-paced team with the ability to organise and prioritise workloads to maximise productivity, whilst maintaining a high-quality service level to stakeholders
• Experience of creating and delivering guidance and training material (either formally or informally)
• Experience of building and maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholders
• Experience of using and analysing data to inform decision making