Recruitment Specialist

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Job Title:  Recruitment Specialist
Job Grade / Classification:  Clerk Grade 7/8
Employment Type: Full time, temporary basis (24 months)
Location:  Sydney Metro
 
At the Planning and Environment Cluster, we believe a diverse and inclusive workforce contributes to the success of our business and are committed to ensuring that our workforce reflects the contemporary communities of NSW.
 
We understand that flexibility means different things to different people and are committed to offering flexible work arrangements where and when possible. To discuss what options, including any adjustments in the recruitment process or in the workplace, that may be available please contact the people listed below.
 
Agency overview
The Department of Planning & Environment is the lead NSW Government agency in planning for a growing NSW. The Department is going through an exciting period of organisational and operational change.
The Department’s vision – “Planning for growing NSW: inspiring strong communities, protecting our environment” – provides the benchmark for our partnership and leadership approach to engaging and working collaboratively with key State and Local Government, community and industry stakeholders to deliver better outcomes in the areas of planning, local government and the environment.
 
About the Role:
An exciting new opportunity to join a dynamic team to deliver some recruitment advice to key stakeholders across the business. Working collaboratively with the greater recruitment team and other key stakeholders, you will have an understanding of applying recruitment principals to provide solutions whilst meeting the Diversity teams key objectives.
 
 
Primary purpose of the role

• Coordinate and deliver end to end recruitment services including job briefs, advertising and sourcing, shortlisting, assessments and onboarding activities to meet diversity employment targets
• Develop and provide strategic advice on appropriate sourcing and assessment strategies with a focus on a diverse candidate pool including people with disability, women, youth, Aboriginal and multicultural peoples
• Review, develop and maintain diversity recruitment policies and practices to build internal capability of generalist teams
• Collaborate and network with external organisations to identify opportunities for marketing and promotion activities to address current and future skill needs

 

Essential requirements

Qualifications in Human Resources and/or relevant professional experience in recruitment delivery.

Demonstrated knowledge and experience of recruitment management, policies, processes and legislative requirements with a focus on diversity or equity initiatives.

 
 
To be successful in the role, ideally you will have:
An understanding of the GSE Act and how it applies to recruitment.
 
 
Please read the following documents prior to preparing your application:

Role description
Application Guide
Applying for a role in the NSW public Sector
 
 
Job Notes:
A Recruitment Pool may be established for future temporary and ongoing roles with similar focus capabilities. The Recruitment Pool may be available to hiring managers from DPE and other NSW Public Sector agencies over a 12-month period.  
 
 
To Apply: 
Complete all the questions in the online application. Two of the questions will require you to provide specific examples from your experience (4000-character limit per question). These questions are shown below. Do not address these in your cover letter
 
Q1. Provide an example of when you developed and implemented an innovative recruitment strategy. As part of your response, please include the context, the actions you took and the results.
 
Q2. Please provide an example of where you have influenced key stakeholders on a diversity or equity initiative with a positive outcome.
 

The information provided in your application needs to show how you meet the focus capabilities and other essential requirements of the role. (Refer to the role description for details about the capabilities and the associated behavioural indicators. The role description also lists the essential role requirements.)
 
Applications Close: Sunday 22 July, 2018 at 11:59PM
 
Should you require further information about the role please contact; Angela Zaballa ([email protected]). Should you have any enquiries regarding the recruitment process please contact Sarah Qassis (02) 9585 6737.