Technical Recruiter - Bristol, United Kingdom - Government Digital Service

Government Digital Service

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £38,046-
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
GDS
Business and People Services
Type of role:
Human Resources
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
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Bristol, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

GDS exists to help government make brilliant public services that empower people in the UK. We work at the very centre of government to drive digital transformation, focused on users.

We build and maintain common platforms, products and tools for others to use and create great public services that are accessible, inclusive and easy to use.

We also work with departments to identify patterns, share learning and create change to make government more efficient.

Our teams are organised around delivering on our priorities

These are:
- making it easier for people to find what they are looking for on GOV.UK
- building common service platforms to make it simpler and cheaper to build quality digital services
- promoting agile, user-centred design practices both in the UK and across the world

The Resourcing Team are responsible for ensuring we attract, recruit and retain a diverse range of skills within the business in order to drive and deliver our organisational objectives.

Within the team we have sub teams all with a distinct purpose and strategic aim.

Our GDS Recruitment Team manages the recruitment of employees across GDS partnering with individual areas of the business to fill specialist and high volume vacancies.

The Technical Recruiter is a key role that offers a direct route to market for sourcing permanent staff.

Job description:

To ensure success as the Technical Recruiter, you should have excellent interpersonal skills, a natural talent for negotiating, and the ability to make quick decisions.

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As a Technical Recruiter you'll:

Work alongside the resourcing partners to understand the hiring managers' recruitment needs.
Maintain consultative relationships with hiring managers and the resourcing partners. Ensure you are communicating and updating regularly.
Make recommendations to hiring managers and utilise your understanding and awareness of the market to advise managers and recruitment business partners accordingly.
Help develop talent pipelines across GDS, particularly for our regularly recruited roles.
Support the resourcing team at busy times and be willing to support end to end recruitment campaigns.
Create engaging adverts on our social platforms and our applicant tracking system to make our jobs and projects visible to those we want to attract
To identify, plan and attend relevant events and networking groups to ensure both the maximum exposure of the GDS brand and return on investment.

- work closely with the wider GDS recruitment team, to prioritise tasks and campaigns as well as developing strategic initiatives.

Support resourcing partners with creating, managing and delivering recruitment related reports for business areas and professions.

- act as a credible expert and ambassador for recruitment across GDS business areas and professions, ensuring excellent customer service to both our internal and external customers.

Working with the resourcing partners to capture, analyse and identify internal/external trends, opportunities. Providing regular market insight to resourcing partners to ensure constructive resourcing strategies. Highlighting any risks to the resourcing partners and mitigating any issues or if necessary escalating to relevant parties.

Person specification:

We're interested in people who have:

demonstrable experience of delivering an Internal recruitment service within a fast paced, matrix management organisation

- thorough understanding of technology, technical roles and technical skills
- excellent organisational skills
- strong customer service skills and the ability to maintain remote relationships
- strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to push back and challenge when necessary
- ability to prioritise workload and work at pace with a high attention to detail
- creating, managing and reporting data to identify trends and blockers and resolve them.

Benefits:

The benefits of working at GDS

There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours

- a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days

- an extra day off for The King's birthday
- an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
- career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
- paid volunteering leave
- a focus on wellbeing w