Head of DfT Group Recruitment Strategy and Policy


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£69,501 - £69,501
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Swansea
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	24 Aug 2026
Closing date:	9 Sept 2026

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Summary

Can you demonstrate experience leading large-scale recruitment services and delivering strategic improvements across complex systems?

Do you have the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery partners to drive successful change and high-performing recruitment outcomes?

Have you developed and implemented recruitment strategies that align policy, operational delivery, commercial considerations, and workforce objectives while leading teams through change and ambiguity?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Join the Department for Transport at a pivotal time as we reshape recruitment and onboarding across the DfT Group! This influential leadership role will help ensure the Department attracts, recruits and retains the talent needed to deliver a modern, efficient and inclusive transport system. Working across DfT and its agencies, you will lead the development of recruitment strategy, policy and governance, driving continuous improvement and supporting major transformation programmes. You will collaborate with senior leaders, government partners and service providers to create future-focused recruitment services that deliver value for money, support diversity and inclusion, and meet the workforce and capability challenges facing the Department both now and in the years ahead.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfT.

Lead the future of recruitment across the Department for Transport Group! As the Grade 6 functional lead for Recruitment, Strategy and Policy, you will shape and oversee recruitment and onboarding services, ensuring they are effective, compliant, and aligned with workforce priorities. You will lead strategic planning, recruitment policy, governance, and supplier relationships, while driving continuous improvement and transformation. Working with senior stakeholders across DfT and government, you will provide leadership for recruitment strategy, diversity and inclusion outcomes, financial management, and the development of services that meet the workforce challenges of today and the future.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Lead the development and delivery of DfT Group's recruitment strategy, ensuring it supports organisational priorities and future workforce needs.
Drive the vision for recruitment services, maximising the value of technology, expertise, and resources across the DfT family.
Provide strategic leadership of the Recruitment Hub, ensuring a high-performing, customer-focused recruitment service.
Develop and enhance DfT's talent acquisition approach, leveraging in-house capability, external partners, government schemes, and professional networks.
Continuously improve recruitment policy and practice through data, insight, and evidence-based decision making.
Take accountability for recruitment performance, including time-to-hire, diversity and inclusion outcomes, and wider government people metrics.
Manage key commercial relationships and service providers, ensuring effective delivery and smooth transition to new arrangements where required.
Lead and influence a broad range of stakeholders, while providing leadership for a team of recruitment professionals and managing financial and commercial responsibilities.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

Colleagues are expected to work with a degree of flexibility, meaning responsibilities may change to support priority delivery.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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