Salary: £33,366 - £37,035 per annum
Grade: I
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Location: Hybrid (minimum of 2 days per week County Hall, Northallerton)
Are you an experienced recruitment / resourcing professional looking for a new role?
We are looking for a talented and ambitious colleague to join our team in what we believe to be an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in an influential role.
Resourcing Solutions is a hybrid professional recruitment service, delivering the depth of a consultancy service associated with in-house talent acquisition services together with the tenacity, ingenuity and drive of a commercial recruitment consultancy. The best of both!
Our highly successful team is growing. We are victims of our own success; we have an increasing workload and are therefore looking to recruit additional Resourcing Partners that will cover some of the following key portfolio areas:
- Executive Search: we recruit executive leaders for a large number of Local Authorities, Public and Private Sector clients. Owing to our success and client feedback, more organisations are seeking our support and all the clients we have recruited for repeatedly use our services. Working in our Executive Search team you will take a detailed brief from our clients, turn this into a compelling bespoke campaign, compete a robust market map and contact target executives to ignite interest in executive leadership roles. You will develop, design and host multi-staged assessment events, where all key stakeholders’ needs are met and successful appointments made.
- Emerging Recruitment Technology: we are in the process of procuring our 4th generation recruitment system are aiming to implement technology in advance of any normal ATS (applicant tracking system) to implementing new and emergency technologies that enhances our customer experience. We aim for the new technology to be best in class, technology that identifies, tracks and engages target applicants, supports them with a personalised and engaging recruitment experience. Technology that is intuitive and easy to use for hiring manages, that enables self-serve across over 2,000 managers and across diverse recruitment needs. Technology, that underpins a professional, highly effective resourcing service that is productive and multi-faceted, delighting all of our customers. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a key feature of our new system and will enable us to adopt the latest techniques to attract, manage and engage talent today in in the future. You will work as part of a team to implement the new technology and realise the full benefits that this brings in complex and large organisation.
- Resourcing Partners: It is an exciting time for local government in North Yorkshire; in April 2023 the 8 councils that served North Yorkshire merge into one: North Yorkshire Council. 2 years on and we have achieved a great deal, now is the time where for some services we need to form a deeper resourcing partnership relation with them. This involves the delivery of significant improvement programme to ensure compliance with legal requirements and are seeking to recruit and retain a skill shortage workforce. Partnering with services that are instrumental to North Yorkshire’s growth ambitions, the wellbeing of our residents and delivering our devolution deal. Resourcing partners will lead programmes that:
a. Supports and enables managers recruit to their requirement today and into the future. The support will be additional in the early stages of the programme, reducing manager effort however will transition to self-serve manager resourcing in the latter stages when service is more stable.
b. Supports the development of new roles into the future, enable managers to swiftly develop new roles for emerging needs and shorten implementation periods.
c. Develops, reports and acts upon resourcing analytics to ensure that workforce demands (vacancies) and pressures are identified and prioritised.
d. Enables a proactive and efficient approach to resourcing across the services and related services (similar recruitment needs in other council/council owned services) is developed. (Recruit ahead of need, identify and use talent across service).
e. Develops and delivers a resourcing recruitment and retention programme, with priority given to critical in the achievement of regulatory compliance.
To be successful in this role you will
- Be a pragmatic problem solver, with a positive approach and high achievement ambition
- Have experience in recruiting and resourcing issues and have the ability to work with service managers and partners to deliver a highly responsive customer focussed professional recruitment service
- Building relationships is key; to influence approach and maximise impact with limited resource
- Be resilient, agile and determined alongside having a great eye for detail to enable you to manage a highly demanding workload at pace
Our Service
We are driven by our public sector ethos; a trusted partner, customer focussed and high impact services, but deliver with our commercial mindset using low cost, innovative methods to really drive value.
We are the in-house recruiters to North Yorkshire Council and our public sector partners, but also have over 400 trading clients and a growing commercial income across multiple sectors, including Local Government, Health & Social Care, Emergency Services and Education to name a few….
The Resourcing Solution deliver a wide spectrum of services that include Executive Search, Permanent Recruitment, Recruitment Consultancy including agency services/interims, employability, careers advice, outplacement services, recruitment assessment services, recruitment marketing and digital solutions services.
Our highly successful team is growing. We are victims of our own success; we have an increasing workload with varied opportunities across the team. A fantastic chance to develop your career and diversify your recruitment experience in a forward-thinking team that offers progression opportunities for those with an appetite to learn on your journey with us.
What we can offer you
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially make life a bit easier. These include:
- local government contribution pension scheme
- family friendly leave
- salary sacrifice schemes
- flexible working
- employee discount benefits including shopping and gym discounts
- green car and cycle schemes
We would love to talk to you about the opportunity; for more information about the role, contact Sophia Pawson – Senior Resourcing Partner on 07817829260 or sophia.pawson@northyorks.gov.uk
APPLY NOW
Send your CV and Supporting Statement outlining your suitability and motivation for the role, by midnight on Monday 28th April 2025 to Sophia Pawson sophia.pawson@northyorks.gov.uk
Applications will be considered upon receipt, with interviews taking place in early May 2025.
Key Documents:
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.