Resourcing Officer

This role will ideally suit a candidate who is looking for a temporary step up from their current role, or somebody who may not have worked in this area previously and is looking to gain some experience in a Resourcing/Recruitment support role

Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To

• Resource strategy support – work alongside the wider resourcing team to implement planned resource strategies in line with Matrix Programme requirements and standards
• Support on managing end to end civil servant and contingent labour workers recruitment processes.
• Project Support – Providing additional support where required, within other Project Management functions, for example Client Side Contract Management Onboarding and Offboarding consultants, updating distribution lists for new joiners, and liaising with the team on end dates/workforce planning.
• Support with managing Matrix Resourcing inbox – keeping the inbox tidy and responding to all queries within a set SLA
• Stakeholder Management – Engage with work-stream leads and hiring managers on recruitment management requirements alongside resourcing business manager
• Data Management – Collect and maintain timely and accurate data to report on project resource and capability activities.
• Manage and maintain the Matrix Programme Organisational Charts/Structures for the programme and its departments.
• Manage and maintain Resourcing team SharePoint site.
• Work closely with Operational Contract Management team to ensure all recruitment activity and data is aligned
• Build strong relationships with a variety of Matrix and DSIT wide stakeholder for all resourcing and recruitment matters.
• Support with HR Assurance admin and BAU tasks.

Essential Criteria

• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to follow processes and seek appropriate guidance where required.
• Capability to manage conflicting priorities and adapt quickly to changing demands.
• Interpersonal skills - ability to develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal with a variety of stakeholders
• Working knowledge of using Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of using and navigating SharePoint

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working in a Project/Programme Environment desirable but not essential

Project Delivery Professional Qualifications Such As

• APM Project Fundamentals
• APM Project Management Qualification
• PRINCE 2 Foundation
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes Foundation
• Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
• PMI Certificate in Associate Project Management

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

• Competency: Stakeholder Engagement

Alongside your salary of £36,735, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £10,642 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 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.

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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 750 words) to demonstrate how your skills, experience, and achievements meet each of the essential criteria outlined in the job advertisement. Wherever possible, provide specific examples to evidence your suitability for the role.

Applications will be sifted on CV and Personal Statement.

In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement 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, technical and strength-based questions.

Link to the technical/professional competency framework that candidates will be assessed against, for their reference: https://projectdelivery.gov.uk/government-projects-academy/project-delivery-capability-framework/

Sift and interview dates

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

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 DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT 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