Job Vacancy Digital Recruitment Business Partner

Pay up to £43,347, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

In DWP we call this role a Digital Capability Manager - you'll be part of our brilliant Capability community - but this is a Recruitment Business Partner role, where you'll be central to ensuring that strategy and delivery aligns to business needs.

As a Digital Recruitment Business Partner you will use your broad experience in the HR and/or Recruitment space to develop people strategies, and support Digital in attracting retaining quality talent.

Are you a solution-focused Recruiter or HR professional who's passionate about creating an inclusive, diverse and engaged workforce who are empowered to deliver? Can you bring diversity of thought to inform critical business changes that nurture and develop Recruitment Strategy?

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

Our team supports DWP Digital in inspiring, attracting, retaining and developing brilliant people from all backgrounds - diversity is vital for us.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience working on resourcing strategies within the HR function
• Ability to research and utilise your established networks to collate insight and support the development of resourcing strategies and EDI focused initiatives
• Ability to conduct data-led analysis from variant sources and tools to anticipate issues, and present findings and recommendations to decisions makers based on such evidence
• Ability to take such recommendations from inception to implementation
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills at all levels, with the confidence to consult key decisions makers to inform the development of key initiatives
• Confident with producing progress updates and reporting via a wide range of mechanisms to various audiences
• Effective project management skills - monitor and track plans, deliver to tight deadlines, prioritise effectively, mitigate risks, review performance, achieve successful outcomes, evaluation and measurement of impacts.

You and your role

This is an exciting and varied opportunity within our Capability team, to utilise your skills to deliver positive impact in the way we approach recruitment. You will have the opportunity to work closely with Senior stakeholders, presenting your findings to influence decisions at this level. You'll also collaborate with technical specialists , trainees and apprentices, external suppliers and partners, and of course your colleagues within Digital Capability and Recruitment more to find the right answers.

You will work across a real variety of projects - this might be challenges within resourcing, review and evaluation opportunities, ED&I initiatives and more. Your exemplary communication skills and ability to build effective relationships will be critical in enabling positive change in these spaces.

Our Digital Capability team are working with several Functions and Communities of Practise, enabling you to develop your orientation in the UK's biggest government department, DWP.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £43,347.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £12,557 a year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women in IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.