Strategic Resourcing Manager
Office for Students - Bristol, South West
Full time
Salary: £63,386.00 - £69,444.00 Annually Plus generous Civil Service defined benefit pension
Application Deadline: Feb 11, 2024
About us
The Office for Students (OfS) is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We do this by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.
Purpose of the job
The Strategic Resourcing Manager is a critical role in ensuring that we attract and recruit talented staff, ensuring that we can meet our regulatory agenda and achieve our organisational strategy.
This is a new role, reporting to the Head of HR. The role will have the opportunity to craft the recruitment and resourcing offer for the OfS as a new People Strategy is being implemented.
The Strategic Resourcing Manager will work with HR Business Partners, directors and senior colleagues in reviewing and delivering the strategic workforce resourcing plans. They will be the source of trusted, professional and technical expertise on resourcing, and will demonstrate persuasive and compelling leadership, influence and understanding of the business and its workforce needs.
About you
You are an experienced resourcing professional
Skilled at building productive relationships
Able to influence at a senior level
You are a strong communicator with a creative approach
You have the flexibility to thrive in an agile environment
Key Responsibilities
Leading, developing and delivering our attraction and recruitment approach, our employer branding and ultimately ensuring that the recruitment needs of the organisation are met.
Leading strategic workforce planning, in partnership with HRBPs, the Organisational Development team and the Delivery team to ensure accurate projections of resourcing requirements.
Undertaking benchmarking, analysis and research to understand the labour market for our roles and find suitable candidates.
Using professional expertise to design our selection and assessment methodology, ensuring it is reliable and fit for purpose.
Designing our approach to attraction, including refining our Employer Value Proposition to enable more effective candidate attraction.
Leading the recruitment team as they advise and support recruiting managers to develop and deliver candidate pipelines to meet their recruitment needs.
Working with the Delivery team to ensure that business planning is fully aligned with resourcing activity.
Working with the colleagues in HR and across the organisation to ensure a smooth journey from attraction to induction.
Leading the continued improvement of communication channels and recruitment processes and contracts, ensuring a cost effective, efficient and proportionate approach that balances both candidate experience and business need.
Leading and managing the recruitment team to best meet the needs of an agile organisation.
Working for us
The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
Working arrangements
Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two to three days in a typical week.
To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part-time working, applies to the role.
Closing date for applications: 11 February 2024
Interviews: From 26 February 2024