Job ref: 187503
TPR grade: R&O Grade 9 - Lead Associate
About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, subject to government guidelines, where regular attendance in our Brighton office is required. Attendance in the office is team and role dependent.
Role
We’re looking for a proactive, solutions orientated and service focused Recruitment Partner who has directly managed end to end recruitment campaigns, utilising various attraction methods and techniques.
The successful candidate will be an experienced partner, collaboratively working with our management community to provide expert advice and guidance to support their resourcing activities, including creative routes to market for hard to recruit roles and embedding equality diversity and inclusion in all we do.
The Recruitment Partners are experienced and dynamic communicators, able to assimilate information about role requirements and practically apply their knowledge into innovative recruitment campaigns.
They work closely with the other colleagues across the People Team, to continuously improve our ways of working, attraction techniques, management development and people plans, allowing for flexibility and ensuring delivery of corporate strategies and KPIs.
Responsibilities
You will:
- design and deliver in house end to end recruitment campaigns using appropriate channels to reach a range of audiences
- working with specific directorates and partnering with the Business Partners to understand current and future requirements, from their directorates people plans, enabling proactive recruitment campaigns in a timely manner
- deliver on recruitment needs within agreed service level agreements and provide an excellent end to end customer experience for both hiring managers and candidates
- provide specific advice on candidates to hiring managers, including recommendations of suitable candidates for current and future roles from talent pools
- as a subject matter expert, provide creative advice and guidance on job adverts, social media content and interview approaches, using tools such as LinkedIn
- work closely with the Administrators to provide an escalation point for queries, to clarify and provide guidance on policies and procedures, and escalating within People team for other support as needed
- manage offers to internal and external candidates, working within the salary pay bands and policies
- attend job fairs and recruitment events when required to network and engage with stakeholder and improve candidates attraction
- build effective relationships with stakeholders, using data, market intelligence and excellent communication skills to influence managers when designing their recruitment campaign
- promote TPR externally as an employer of choice to build talent pools
- headhunt candidates and fill future requirements through horizon scanning
Essential and desirable criteria
- Experience in directly managing end to end recruitment processes, including but not limited to writing job adverts, sourcing candidates through a variety of methods at a high volume (agencies, social media, talent pooling and LinkedIn).
- Experience of managing and prioritising multiple campaigns including high volume recruitment.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to build strong professional relationships.
- Experience of delivering innovative, diverse and inclusive recruitment campaigns.
- Positive adoption to change and transformation, always striving for continuous improvement.
- Experience of partnering with other functions in the People Team as well as the wider organisation.
- Supportive team player who enjoys working in a collaborative environment whilst also have your own clear responsibilities.
Person specification
- Proactive and flexible.
- Can do approach.
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
- Calm under pressure.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Personable and a team player.
- Excellent customer service.
Salary and benefits
As well as a starting salary of £35,598, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 187503 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current TPR employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention and development of people with disabilities and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis. If you want your application to be considered as part of a job share, please apply with the hours you are available to work.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.