Resourcing Adviser – Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service
This is a great opportunity for a motivated and approachable self-starter to become a vital part of our Resourcing and Development team
RBFRS invests in the training, development and wellbeing of its employees ensuring they have the resources and support needed to thrive. Our team provides a supportive and inclusive environment that celebrates diversity, fosters belonging, and values the unique contributions of every individual.
About the Role:
In this role you will drive frontline resourcing and promotion activity, designing recruitment and selection tools, processes and campaigns to fulfil our operational / firefighting succession and workforce planning needs.
You will be key in coordinating, guiding, supporting and influencing stakeholders, managers and staff across RBFRS to ensure we have the right person (with the right skills, knowledge and behaviours), in the right job, at the right time.
About You:
You’ll bring recent experience of supporting and advising managers and candidates through stages of the recruitment and promotion selection process – from planning and attraction to post-campaign evaluation and reporting. Ideally, you’ll have a strong track record of delivering to good practice defined standards.
You will be skilled in coordinating end-to-end recruitment and promotion campaigns along with a solid understanding of underpinning employment legislation, recruitment and selection good practice and equality, diversity and inclusion, and know how to turn that knowledge into practical and meaningful results.
Passionate about people, you’ll engage confidently with individuals at all levels across the Service and with the public – adapting your communication style and building trust through credibility, enthusiasm, and professionalism.
The key focus of this role (Key Responsibilities and Deliverables) is:
• With the support of the Coaching and Succession Lead develop annual and long-term plans of recruitment and promotion campaigns from entry to senior leader level, ensuring efficient and effective selection processes and resources.
• Plan and coordinate recruitment and promotion campaigns in line best practice and internal policy and procedure, providing advice accordingly.
• Organise, design and deliver attraction and engagement interventions and events including positive action to encourage underrepresented groups to join the Service and give potential candidates an insight into the recruitment process and to create equality impact assessments.
• To create and maintain reports, spreadsheets and correspondence and undertake quarterly data analysis and reporting to monitor impacts and trends for organisational oversight and inform future campaigns
It is anticipated that the assessment/interview process will run w/c 28 July 2025.
The interview will consist of a competency and behavioural based interview and a role-based task.
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