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About the Team
The Government Economic & Social Research Unit (GESR) is a friendly team, sitting within HM Treasury's Economics Group. We provide support to the Government Economic Service (GES) and Government Social Research (GSR) professions.
We provide resourcing for the Government Economics Service (GES) and Government Social Research (GSR) across the Civil Service. Our work is fundamental in ensuring continuity and quality for these established professions. GES Economists provide economic analysis and insight in support of the entire range of UK Government and public service activities. Supporting policy development, public service delivery, ministerial objectives, or meeting at pace the issues of the day.
As well as collaborating across Government on shared agendas including growing diversity in recruitment and improving policy making, we also offer the great advantages of working inside HM Treasury!
About the Role
This is an excellent opportunity to join us, managing recruitment in the operations team for the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) team. We are offering the opportunity to work across Government with a variety of partners, providing a professional and effective service that meets business needs and quality standards. There is a large degree of operational delivery & team leadership within this role, and it also has a meaningful focus on quality assurance and continuous improvement.
Key accountabilities include:
- Plan and manage delivery of the end-to-end process for all centralised GES and GSR recruitment schemes to provide timely and high quality resources to fill upwards of 500 vacancies a year across 40 departments, agencies and ALBs.
- Manage GESR recruitment systems, ensuring processes are working effectively for end users, the recruitment team are appropriately trained and end user guidance and standard operating procedures are up to date.
- Support the Head of GES Resourcing, covering core duties during leave periods and provide support to the Recruitment Campaign Managers, problem solving or highlighting issues as the need arises.
- Lead and maintain detailed recruitment project plans, monitor performance against critical metrics and agreed standards.
- Develop and mentor the team of two recruitment campaign managers and one recruitment business support in sharing your knowledge and expertise, building capability and confidence, to ensure the effective delivery of day to day recruitment campaigns.
The above is an outline of some of the responsibilities within the role. For a full list of responsibilities, please follow the apply link.
About you
This role would suit someone who feel enthusiastic about the prospect of co-ordinating large-scale recruitment campaigns. We are looking for someone who can see the bigger picture and wishes to build more experience of working with senior leaders and delivering real cross-Government change. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!
About us
HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances.
Some of the Benefits our people love!
- 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
- Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours).
- Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27% Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
- A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.
- Access to HM Treasury's benefits portal allowing you access to a range of discount codes for online shopping.
- A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
- Access to a range of allowances if eligibility applies. These include profession related allowances.
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at