[Hiring] Resource Business Partner @Public Sector Resourcing

Role Description

On behalf of Defra, we are looking for a Resource Business Partner for a 6 months contract based REMOTELY with occasional travel to either Bristol/York/London or Newcastle.

As a Resource Business Partner, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Manage agreed cases from initiation and approvals through mobilisation, placement, extension or exit.
• Coordinate CE input to agreements, funding, security, technology and workplace readiness with Defra teams, suppliers and home employers.
• Take ownership once a secondment requirement or individual is agreed; sourcing and wider recruitment remain outside scope.
• Confirm purpose, outputs, duration, funding, management arrangements and intended benefits before mobilisation.
• Coordinate readiness across the secondee, CE manager, People Team, supplier or home employer and Defra enabling functions.
• Ensure changes, extensions and exits follow the agreed process.
• Implement a benefits framework with baselines, measures, owners, evidence and review points.
• Evaluate delivery, capability, skills transfer, external insight, partnerships, financial value and organisational learning.

Qualifications

• Civil service background in recruitment
• Knowledge of GRS (government management system for recruiting)
• PowerBI

Requirements

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Benefits

• As a Disability Confident employer, Defra encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates.
• Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review.
• As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, Defra welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners.
• Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review.