United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: HR Officer, Recruitment

Job title:HR Officer, Recruitment

Location: London

Type of contract: Permanent

Salary: £28,190

Application deadline: 06 March 2016

Our business:

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to humanitarian action in a meaningful way, for a passionate, resilient and dynamic individual, who combines proven success in attracting and retaining high-caliber talent, with the ability to build effective relationships and deliver superb customer service.

In return we offer a competitive salary and the opportunity to join a team of likeminded professionals who are smart, passionate and great at what they do. You'll be part of a friendly and supportive environment and gain a real opportunity to build your recruitment and HR skills in a culture of innovation, responsiveness and continuous improvement.

The Conflict, Humanitarian & Security Department’s Operations Team (CHASE OT) is contracted through Crown Agents by the Department of International Development (DFID) and the Stabilisation Unit (SU) to provide support services and an operational team delivering advice and assistance on humanitarian disasters and emergencies. This role, which is part of the CHASE OT Finance and Resourcing Team, focuses on the recruitment to and management of the database of humanitarian experts, as well as maintaining the 'deployability' of these consultants and overseeing the evaluation and performance management of consultants.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment and selection of humanitarian experts to CHASE OT’s database (including appointment procedures), and undertake rapid, targeted recruitment campaigns for specific humanitarian consultancies when required.

• Build and maintain effective relationships with the CHASE OT database consultants.

• Engage with other departments within CHASE OT to ensure that consultants on the database are security trained, security cleared, and inducted.

• Collaborate with the Humanitarian HR Officer in identifying suitable consultants for deployment to the field or London, and for inclusion in the UNDAC roster and retainer programme.

• Review the current database selection process to increase efficiency and resource-effectiveness, developing supporting tools as necessary and developing training on new processes with the assistance of the L&D Adviser.

• Develop Terms Of Reference, and associated selection and assessment tools for new database profiles as per DFID requirements, and undertake targeted recruitment campaigns to address skill shortages when required. This may include application forms, screening matrices, aptitude tests and interview questions.

• Review how feedback and evaluation of consultants performance is currently obtained, and how this feedback is stored and utilised. Propose and implement an information management solution for performance feedback.

• Manage our Applicant Tracking Systems, and other recruitment-related data management systems, and maintain the recruitment and selection logs and files.

• Ensure the database holds full, accurate and up-to-date information on consultants including availability information.

Essential Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Degree level education or equivalent experience

• CIPD qualified or working towards qualification preferred

• Demonstrable experience of all aspects of recruitment and selection

• Experience of developing and implementing selection tools such as screening matrices, aptitude tests and competency-based interview questions

• Good IT skills and familiarity and knowledge of e-recruitment systems, HRIS and databases

• Ability to plan, organise and facilitate assessment events and interviews

• Experience of providing HR advice to managers on recruitment and selection

• Proven commitment to accuracy

• Good communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships

• Proven ability to work under pressure, and demonstrable organization and time management skills

• HR experience in a humanitarian or government environment is highly desirable.

  Application process

  Please send your CV and covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements for this role to Harleen Bhatia Patel at h-bhatia-patel@dfid.gov.uk by 06 March 2016.

  Please include in the subject line: HR Officer, Recruitment

  Please note that applicants must have the existing right to work in the UK, as we are unable to support or sponsor visa or work permit applications.

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