Attraction & Resourcing Lead

This is an ambitious and exciting task, for which we need innovative people, with strong commercial acumen, who are passionate about visualising and implementing customer needs. Launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018, we're a relatively new department and we are growing fast so we also need people who thrive in ambiguity, can adapt quickly to change and are comfortable stepping outside of their remit to drive outcomes. The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do. To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community. Reporting to the Head of HR Operations, the post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of the GPA's Attraction and Resourcing Strategy. This role provides the opportunity to directly influence, support and guide hiring managers across the organisation to resource their teams in the most appropriate way. Leading a small team you will deliver the full end to end recruitment cycle, provide data and insights that will shape the future approach, as well as oversee and ensure compliant engagement of temporary workers. The post-holder will be proactive in promoting an efficient, effective and consistent talent attraction service and have the scope and autonomy to bring their own experience and ideas contributing to continuous improvement through a fundamental and thorough review of recruitment practices and processes. They will demonstrate excellent client relationship management and have the gravitas and commercial acumen to establish credibility with senior management to successfully deliver timely and high quality recruitment solutions. This is a fast-paced, challenging and exciting role, with high visibility across the GPA at all levels. We are looking for a talented, proactive and experienced attraction and recruitment professional, preferably with an understanding of wider public sector HR policies and practices and great stakeholder engagement skills.,

• Leading, managing and providing guidance to the Recruitment team, coordinating their workload and unblocking issues to provide consistent, professional and innovative services to all managers across the GPA.
• Managing end-to-end recruitment life cycle, identifying risks and taking actions to mitigate them.
• Monitoring success of campaigns against requirements and suggesting ways to improve the recruitment, selection and attraction process to hiring managers.
• Managing the relationship with the Government Recruitment Service (GRS) and specialist recruitment agencies, ensuring that KPIs are met and robust management information is gathered in order to shape and influence future activity.
• Monitoring central recruitment spend against budget and ensuring that accurate and timely volume forecasts are provided.
• Maintaining an overview of the use of temporary resources across the organisation, working to ensure that GPA achieves the best value for money from us of contingent labour and managing the relationships with PSR and agencies.
• Ensuring a high quality candidate journey by reviewing GPA's existing attraction and recruitment policies and processes and making evidence-based proposals for changes and improvements.
• Providing guidance and support to hiring managers through effective deployment of the team and drawing upon their own experience of the recruitment principles in the Civil Service.
• Undertaking a root and branch review of attraction and recruitment policies, practices and processes across the GPA and subsequently implementing any resulting changes, including training of HR colleagues and hiring managers, and publishing guidance.
• Leading the grading assessment process for the GPA, including ensuring that assessment outcomes are consistent, ensuring that there are sufficient trained assessors and developing and implementing a tracking system for outcomes.
• Developing and owning a process to ensure that complaint about the recruitment process are managed in the most appropriate way.
• Ensuring that candidates are fully engaged throughout their on-boarding journey, with regular touch-points and resolving emerging issues quickly and effectively.
  
  The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies including moving 22,000 Civil Service roles out of London by 2030 and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years.
Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people. Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smart Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices.