Resourcing Lead

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Resourcing Lead to lead end-to-end recruitment for key service areas, drive service improvement, and help us attract and retain brilliant talent. You’ll combine expert recruitment knowledge with a customer-first approach—creating a positive candidate journey and ensuring we hire the right people, in the right roles, at the right time

This is a key role within the Talent/HR&OD function, with scope to contribute to how we recruit and improve services. It’s an opportunity to lead change, innovate and build modern attraction strategies across multiple platforms within a diverse, supportive team environment focused on professional curiosity, development and shared success.

About the role

• Lead and manage recruitment activity across permanent, fixed-term and temporary vacancies—supporting career development, redeployment and ‘grow our own’ approaches.
• Own the candidate journey end-to-end, delivering a proactive, inclusive and high-quality experience for internal and external candidates.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to hiring managers and stakeholders, including best practice, legislation and process.
• Use market insight, benchmarking and mapping to strengthen attraction for hard-to-fill and senior roles.
• Drive continuous improvement—identifying process efficiencies, value for money opportunities and innovative ways of working (including using ServiceNow).
• Work to agreed KPIs (e.g., time to hire and vacancy fill rates) and use data to spot trends, risks and barriers.
• Support assessment activity (including assessment days and interviews) and represent the organisation at careers and promotional events.

About you

• Substantial recruitment or resourcing experience in a large/complex organisation, with credibility to influence at all levels.
• Strong stakeholder management, persuasion and negotiation skills, with a calm, solutions-focused approach.
• Excellent organisation and time management, able to prioritise a varied workload and meet deadlines.
• Confidence using data to tell the story—identifying trends, risks and opportunities to improve performance.
• Strong digital capability, including use of Microsoft applications and specialist systems (e.g., ServiceNow/TalentLink or similar).
• Experience supporting or delivering interviews and candidate assessment activity.
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) and/or relevant HR/recruitment qualification or equivalent experience.

We’re keen to hear from people whose approach reflects our PACT values and are adaptable, curious, collaborative and trustworthy with the ability to turn insight into action.

Other information

If you would like to know more about this role, please contact Emma Tanner, Talent Resourcing Manager at [email protected]

Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 29th April

Interview date: 5th and 6th May

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro

We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.

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