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439326

£57,515

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Permanent

DFT - Corporate Delivery Group (CDG)

Administration / Corporate Support
Business Management and Improvement
Human Resources
Strategy

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

1

Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, Swansea

Can you turn strategy into practical plans that deliver real results?

Do you have experience shaping resourcing strategies for the future workforce?

Can you influence stakeholders and build partnerships to drive success?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This role offers the opportunity to directly shape the Department for Transport’s (DfT) workforce of the future, turning strategic insight into tangible action, influencing senior leaders, and delivering real impact across a high-profile government department.

DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfTc.

It’s an exciting time for strategic workforce planning at the DfT. Our strategic workforce plan is a living document, setting out what we need to do differently to ensure our workforce has the right capacity and capability today and for the future.

As Strategic Resourcing Lead, you will be responsible for identifying, shaping, and implementing priority resourcing strategies that address the risks and opportunities highlighted in our workforce plan.

We are looking for someone who can turn strategy into action, working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external partners to develop practical plans and drive their delivery at pace. Tangible outcomes matter in this role, so you will need to be results-focused and action-oriented.

You may have experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or wider HR, but most importantly, you will have the ability to shape resourcing strategies that make a real impact on the Department’s workforce now and in the future.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Shaping and managing practical delivery plans that implement priority resourcing strategies, engaging the business to get buy-in and cooperation and working with external delivery partners and internal delivery stakeholders to ensure that plans are realistic and achievable.
• Working with the strategic workforce planning team and the business to develop and maintain a workforce demand plan, setting out resourcing needs for the next 6-12 months by volume, profession and business area.
• Translating the demand plan into a meaningful recruitment delivery plan, moving us away from tactical reactive recruitment for singular vacancies, and towards anticipatory and joined up forward-looking campaigns that have greater impact in the market and that are more efficient to run. This could include volume campaigns, brigaded campaigns and marketing approaches and involve partnering with professions or business areas to deliver. The recruitment delivery itself will still be run by our recruitment service team.
• Leading on strategic resourcing activity relating to our Places for Growth programme of work, re-balancing more of our workforce from London to outside of London.
• Leading on skilled worker visa sponsorship activity on behalf of DfTc, issuing certificates of sponsorship, assuring compliance and, as soon as is practical, outsourcing this activity to an external specialist partner and managing the supplier relationship.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Required experience:

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

• Policy/strategy implementation – experience in taking a strategy and translating this into a practical implementation plan, either through enhancing what already exists, or designing and implementing a new way of doing things.
• Strategic resourcing – experience in shaping resourcing strategies and the considerations inherent within this.
• Building and managing relationships and partnerships - engaging and influencing key stakeholders, both internal and external to get buy-in to resourcing strategies and plans in order to achieve delivery success through collaborative partnerships.
• Planning and problem solving – making decisions using own initiative, with good planning and organisation skills. Strong problem-solving ability when working with multiple stakeholders.

If you do not already hold the following qualification, then you must be willing to work towards this once in role:

Relevant professional qualification or knowledge - Full or part-qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or willing to work towards this.

Additional Information

Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

Visa Sponsorship

DfTc does not offer Visa Sponsorship for this role.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

Alongside your salary of £57,515, Department for Transport contributes £16,662 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 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.

Find out more about the benefits of working at DfT and its agencies.

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The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

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Job contact :

• Name : Sara Philp
• Email : Sara.Philp@dft.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk