About This Role
Leading the recruitment and selection service for South Yorkshire Police, this role involves shaping campaigns to attract talented individuals for various police officer, staff, special constable, and volunteer positions. The Recruitment Manager will support the organisation's workforce plans and priorities by leading high-volume and complex recruitment campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a forward recruitment and promotions plan, coordinating competing campaigns and dependencies
- Use management information to monitor progress, identify risks, provide constructive challenge, and take recovery action
- Provide operational leadership to a small recruitment team, setting expectations, managing workloads and performance, and developing capability and resilience
- Take responsibility for the quality, timeliness, and integrity of the recruitment and promotions service with a high degree of autonomy
- Lead police officer promotion processes, ensuring they are well-governed, consistently delivered, and provide a fair, transparent, and professional experience for candidates
- Work on an agile approach, including from the HR & Learning base at Force Headquarters, with customers across the Force area, and from home
Requirements
- Previous experience of working in a generalist HR function
- Educated to CIPD Level 5 and an associate member, or due to complete CIPD qualification within the next 6 months
- Significant, recent experience of leading high-volume and/or complex recruitment campaigns in a fast-paced environment, with accountability for delivery against challenging timescales and workforce targets
- Line management experience
- Experience of working with hiring managers and key stakeholders to ensure the success of each recruitment campaign
Nice to have:
- Experience of police officer recruitment or promotions
- Regulated selection processes
- Oracle Cloud Recruitment
- Recruitment dashboards
- Attraction campaigns or positive-action initiatives
Benefits
- Access to a generous pension scheme
- Generous annual leave allowance
- A wide range of family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Flexible working arrangements including flexitime and hybrid working for some roles
- Job sharing/part-time working for some roles
- A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust (FIT)
- A comprehensive range of development and leadership courses
- Employee Assistance Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice