Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Resourcing Adviser
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Job Summary
The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a shared corporate service. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).
Our team of over 400 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.
We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
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Job Description
The role and our team
Are you interested in joining a dynamic resourcing team that supports recruitment across both the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology? As a Resourcing Adviser, you will play a pivotal role in delivering an end-to-end recruitment service, ensuring vacancy holders and candidates receive a consistently high-quality experience.
You will act as a trusted recruitment adviser to vacancy holders, supporting them with recruitment campaigns and onboarding of successful candidates. You will work across recruitment and onboarding processes, ensuring that pre-employment checks and onboarding of new starters are processed efficiently within agreed timelines. Engagement with hiring managers, candidates and third-party service providers will be required.
You will be joining a collaborative team that operates in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where priorities shift quickly. A minimum of 40% office attendance is expected. You will need to be organised, adaptable and confident in handling complex queries, investigating and escalating where required. You will also contribute to staff and candidate information sessions and play an active role in improving recruitment processes and service delivery.
We value diversity of thought, background and experience and are committed to inclusive recruitment. We welcome applications from all communities and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the process. If you enjoy problem-solving, collaboration and delivering excellent customer service, we encourage you to apply.
The Resourcing Adviser will also be participating in presenting at information sessions for staff and potential candidates. The role requires strong communication skills, sound judgement and the ability to quickly understand and apply recruitment policies within a fast-paced operational context.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide support and guidance to stakeholders at all levels, in line with recruitment policies, ensuring that correct process is followed and the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles are adhered to.
- Progress recruitment campaigns to agreed service levels using the Civil Service Jobs system.
- Deal effectively with correspondence and queries within agreed timescales.
- Oversee pre-employment checks in accordance with departmental and Civil Service requirements.
- Deliver and maintain a high-quality service to customers. Advise hiring managers regarding best practice and recruitment options to fill positions in their area.
- Provide flexible support to the wider HR Team on projects and priority activities, covering periods of annual leave.
- You will be required to work closely with the Government Recruitment Service, adhering to its policies and principles.
- Working as part of the team is very important and you will be expected to work with a significant degree of autonomy.
- Present and contribute to sessions advising potential candidates and hiring managers.
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Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Experience of working in resourcing with recruitment systems.
- Strong communicator (oral and written).
- Good IT skills (word and outlook essential, excel desirable).
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Good organisational skills with ability to set own priorities, re prioritise and adapt as required.
- Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work as part of team and on own initiative.
- Candidates should hold Associate membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), or higher, or be or willing to work towards this.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £30,940, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £8,963 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides [here](opens in a new window).
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance [here](opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Judgement Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 17/08/2026 If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.
You will be directed to the Talogy - True Talent – Scheduled Maintenance Window Webpage for online tests during an outage.
Please note: Our online test supplier will be performing scheduled maintenance between midday to 1pm and 4pm to midnight on 09/08/2026. You will be unable to access tests during this period.
If you are in the middle of a test when the maintenance begins, your progress will be paused. You will be able to resume your test from where you left off via your application centre once the downtime has ended. Please note that you will not be able to launch any new tests while the system is offline.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and a number of behavioural statements.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Applications will be sifted on CV and behavioural statements.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the CV only. If that is the case, depending on the volume of applications to progress, a secondary sift may be conducted on the lead behaviour (Managing a Quality Service) only.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour and strength-based questions.
Further Information
Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DESNZ Candidate Guidance. A DESNZ Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.
We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Candidates who meet the minimum benchmark may be placed on a Reserve List for consideration for similar roles, including those at a lower grade. Candidates who narrowly miss the benchmark and are not placed on the Reserve List may still be
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