HR Recruitment Advisor – Strategic Projects

Job summary

Can you provide clear recruitment advice and guidance to hiring managers?

Do you enjoy supporting recruitment campaigns from vacancy creation through to onboarding?

Have you juggled multiple campaigns simultaneously, whilst maintaining a high-quality service?

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking a HR Recruitment Advisor – Strategic Projects to join our busy recruitment team. This is an exciting opportunity to support recruitment activity across the Agency, advising hiring managers and helping to deliver compliant, effective and candidate-focused campaigns. You will play a key role in supporting vacancies from initial planning through to advertising, assessment, pre-employment checks and onboarding. Working closely with colleagues across HR, Communications and the wider business, you will help ensure the MCA attracts the talent it needs while maintaining high standards of governance, service delivery and customer care.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Job description

As a HR Recruitment Advisor – Strategic Projects, you will provide guidance and administrative support to hiring managers, helping them run effective, compliant recruitment campaigns. You will manage campaign activity, support assessment and advertising approaches, contribute to recruitment governance and use data and best practice to improve service delivery across the MCA.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

1. Acting as a key point of contact for hiring managers, providing recruitment advice and campaign support.
2. Supporting vacancy creation, advertising, assessment design, pre-employment checks and onboarding activity.
3. Ensuring recruitment activity is consistent, compliant and aligned to MCA, DfT and Civil Service requirements.
4. Creating, reviewing and supporting recruitment governance processes, using HR data to inform decisions.
5. Building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including DfT’s Recruitment Hub.
6. Working with Communications colleagues to support recruitment marketing and social media activity.
7. Proactively sourcing candidates for specific roles using available recruitment tools and platforms.
8. Supporting recruitment training and attendance at job fairs or educational institutes where required.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

1. Demonstrable experience of working in a fast-paced environment, providing advice and delivering a high-quality service in a recruitment, talent acquisition or equivalent environment.
2. Experience in guiding and advising internal and external stakeholders.
3. Excellent communication skills and well organised with the ability to effectively manage shifting priorities.

Additional Information

This post is offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) basis to complete a finite piece of work, however this may be extended or made permanent.

Permanent Civil Servants will be appointed on an inward loan and subject to the terms of the agreed inward loan. You must have your home departments approval to return to them at the end of the loan before you apply. Internal candidates will return to their previous post at the end of the loan period, which will need to be agreed with your line manager in advance. If your home department cannot agree to release you on loan, there is the opportunity for you to move across to the department on a fixed term appointment. In this instance the Department for Transport would become your home department and if there is no role available for you at the end of this appointment, you would be subject to the redeployment and redundancy process.

If you're employed by a non-departmental public body (NDPB) by moving jobs this will involve a change of employer and you may break the statutory rules on continuity of employment.

Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 32 hours per week.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

Some travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. Therefore, this role is not open to applications from those who require sponsorship – candidates must ensure they have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Behaviours

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £30,485, Maritime and Coastguard Agency contributes £8,831 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).