* My 12-month contract with DWP will end early March 2025 *Designed strategies and managed recruitment campaigns for early careers (apprenticeships) and experienced hires for Data Scientists, Digital Performance Analysts, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, and Data Managers.• Developed and implemented robust recruitment strategies to attract talent and streamline recruitment process.• Optimised Civil Service Recruitment processes to ensure effective and efficient campaigns.• Worked closely with key stakeholders to understand hiring needs and re-write job adverts.• Provided reporting and insights on recruitment metrics, trends, and market conditions to senior leadership.

Role was a blend of Strategic Talent Acquisition, L&D & Workforce Planning Manager. I provided strategic partnering to a breadth of divisions including National Enforcement, Regulated Industry & Waste, Land & Water, Flood Risk Management, Fisheries, and National Monitoring – a customer group of c4000 employees with predominantly field-based roles.Built, led, line-managed and developed a team of business partners. Still in touch and meet up with my lovely team who still call me 'boss' (their insistence, not mine!)

• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand strategic business objectives and advise on talent requirements and resourcing strategies. • Mapped current and future skills to develop strategic resourcing plan and attraction strategies.• Designed and led numerous high-volume national recruitment campaigns of operational roles.• Partnered with hiring managers to advise on recruitment best practice, provide market intelligence and identify and plan future recruitment campaigns.• Centralised and managed candidate queries and feedback.• Reported on recruitment campaign and diversity data at each stage of the recruitment process to identify possible issues and suggest improvements.• Managed the relationship with external media agency and other third-party suppliers.Achievements• Led national campaign to recruit 100 posts across 30+ locations. Overhauled attraction strategy, including writing a supporting blog to promote the advert. Redesigned assessment materials and solved historic issue of candidates passing the interview yet recruiting managers not feeling confident in their ability to do the role. Won an award for this campaign.• Wrote Environment Agency’s submission to the Institution of Chemical Engineers to be considered for a diversity and inclusion award at their Global Awards - which we won! Coordinated national social media posts with a supporting blog to showcase our commitment to diversity in a male-dominated sector. I leveraged this award to promote a campaign to recruit industry regulators; the business was overwhelmed with the volume and quality of applications compared to historic recruitment activity in this sector.• Project managed waste crime outreach video project. Developed business case, tendered, and selected supplier. Engaged with a diverse range of waste crime colleagues to develop storyboards and agree on content direction. I was brought in to get this project off the ground and completed within an extremely tight funding deadline.

• National Recruitment Lead for Flood & Coastal Risk Management directorate.• Partnered with hiring managers and workforce planning teams to advise on recruitment best practice and provide market intelligence of competitor salaries and benefits.• Designed and led several high-volume national recruitment campaigns including attraction and assessment strategies.• Recruited diverse portfolio of operational vacancies including civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers, flood risk management specialists, project managers, chartered surveyors, and community engagement officers.• Developed numerous attraction and media strategies including writing job adverts and candidate packs in inclusive, jargon-free language and with job titles appropriate for the external market.• Developed interview questions and other assessment material in collaboration with recruiting managers and HR. • Provided regular MI reports on recruitment activity and diversity data at each stage. Used data to highlight attrition risk and suggest improvements.• Managed relationship with external media agency and SSCL (shared services) Recruitment team.Achievements• Wrote a comprehensive recruitment report with future recommendations which a Deputy Director called a “masterpiece of analysis.”• Redesigned a media campaign in my third week which saved thousands of pounds and was more suitable for the vacancies being advertised. This highlights my ability to hit the ground running in a new sector.• Led project to pilot recruitment reserve lists by seeking agreement and trialling during a large national recruitment campaign. By carefully selecting the capabilities for each vacancy to allow agility, we were able to appoint across locations and vacancies. I then helped develop a business case for a permanent change to our recruitment process and the EA now has reserve list functionality across all vacancies.

• Temporary post created to double IT headcount as part of a £20 million investment across IT.• Directly sourced talent across a variety of IT disciplines, managing end-to-end vacancy lifecycle• Engaged with active and passive talent using a variety of channels.• Provided weekly MI reports to IT Leadership Team and high-touch communication to candidates.Achievements• Filled all 27 posts within six-month timeframe, 22 of which were directly sourced (81%). • Quickly become a trusted advisor and stakeholders commended my ability to find top-notch talent that met the brief.• Bradford is a difficult location to recruit for within the IT sector, however I was extremely successful at finding local IT talent and quickly converting them to hires.

Began my recruitment career in New Zealand at Robert Walters Auckland in the Business Support division, moving to contract IT recruitment after 18 months. Moved back to the UK in 2013 and specialised in digital (web design and development) and IT recruitment in Leeds before moving in-house in 2016.