Resourcing Advisor

Salary: £32,020 to £34,723 per annum
Working Pattern: Full-time
Contract Length: Permanent
Location: County Hall, Chichester (Hybrid working available - minimum of 1 day a week in office)

Are you an excellent Recruiter with the ability to develop long standing relationships? Are you passionate about delivering resourcing outcomes and supporting organisations to find the best talent? Are you looking to work for an organisation where you can really make a difference?

Now is a really exciting time to join us. We're working towards our vision of "An outstanding team, creating a centre of excellence for attracting, identifying, recruiting, and on-boarding talent". As part of our teams growth we are looking for an excellent Recruiter to join us and we are looking for you to bring your skills and knowledge to help us recruit the best people.

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do. Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

About The Job

To support our vision, we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Resourcing Advisor to join our Resourcing team to continue to develop the reshape of our Recruitment team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving and dedicated team at a pivotal time in its change journey.

You will support the Resourcing team to understand the shape of the future workforce and to design and forward plan effective approaches to meet WSCC short, medium and long-term resourcing priorities. You will be responsible for the creation of strategic recruitment and selection strategies, incorporating internal and external campaigns to support the achievement of corporate objectives. This will include management of the full recruitment cycle, including liaising with hiring managers, developing briefs, producing adverts, sourcing for vacancies, some direct sourcing, management of offers, and overseeing the on-boarding of new joiners.

About You

You will come with a proven track record of delivering end to end recruitment activity within an in-house or RPO environment, with a focus on delivering an excellent customer journey throughout the recruitment process. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and candidates. You will play a central role in delivering excellence in our end to end recruitment process. In order to do this you will be able to demonstrate the ability to work with internal stakeholders to identify requirements, plan and build a sourcing strategy to ensure that you can attract and source the strongest candidates available

We are operating in a challenging market at the moment so you will need to be able to demonstrate a proactive approach and experience of delivering specialist advice or recruitment and selection issues. To further support this you will have strong experience of recruiting and networking with potential candidates including social media platforms, networking events and job fairs. You will also work closely with management on all diversity initiatives involving recruitment to ensure fairness in hiring practices.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Our Team

Our Recruitment Team is a key part of the Human Resources and Organisational Development Directorate (HR&OD), we provide expertise in delivering resourcing activities across all our directorates which helps provide services to our 850,000+ residents. The resourcing team has undergone some challenges over the past few years through the Pandemic and the subsequent skills shortages and the 'great resign' which has led to a greater demand on our service. This has meant that we are looking to grow our existing team to ensure that we can meet demands and drive improvements to put our customers (candidates and internal stakeholders) at the centre of everything we do.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CRS00722.

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