All Things Urban

We are a not-for-profit we believes that the public sector has a key role in improving the quality, equality and sustainability or everyday places and we work to build a greater understanding across the built environment sector of its potential.

YOUR ROLE AS OUR RECRUITMENT MANAGER (Local Authority Capacity Building)

As our Recruitment Manager, you will be the key member of our team responsible for developing and managing our relationships and recruitment services for Local Planning Authorities. You will help direct the rest of the team in recruitment management best practices, drive our commitment towards equality, diversity and inclusivity, stay up-to-date with current market pressures and industry challenges, alongside ensuring we maintain high-levels of client satisfaction.

The core responsibilities of this role will be to:

• SHAPE AND SECURE LOCAL AUTHORITY PLACEMENTS

You will be responsible for attracting, developing and securing cross-disciplinary built environment placement roles within local authorities, through our programme and beyond.

• BUILD RELATIONSHIPS & NETWORKS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES

As Public Practice expands, you will develop and build our network and relationships with local authority place-based departments, HR officers and planning officer groups and societies.

• REPRESENT PUBLIC PRACTICE & OUR MISSION TO DIVERSIFY PUBLIC PLANNING EXTERNALLY

You will regularly represent Public Practice externally, promoting our services and advocating our mission to public planning offices and other industry bodies across the built environment profession.

• PROVIDE QUALITY AUTHORITY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

You will be ensuring that our Authority clients receive the highest quality experience possible throughout our recruitment process and throughout the placements.

Alongside these specific individual objectives, as a matrix-based organisation, all team members also take shared responsibility for:

• PRODUCING COMPANY CONTENT

Each member of our team each contributes to providing content for our newsletter, website and external communications as well as the drafting of editorial pieces for industry press or slide decks for upcoming events.

• SUPPORTING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY

Alongside developing and reporting to our Board, all team members help input into the wider organisational strategy and new business developments.

• DELIVERING OUR R&D PROGRAMME

Each team member helps input and delivers our learning and development offer, producing course content and helping facilitate sessions with Associates and our industry members.

• YOUR OWN ADMINISTRATION

As a small and relatively flat structured team, we each take on the administration and database management linked to our key areas of work ensuring we continue to work in the most efficient ways.

• DEVELOPING INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE & THOUGHT-LEADERSHIP

Each team member leads on an area of relevant industry or operational interest, that is maintained and developed within the organisation and shared externally.

YOUR FIRST SIX MONTHS IN THE ROLE

Within the first six months as our Recruitment Manager, you will have:

• Supported the production and delivery of our Placement Workshops and the securing and coordination of our local authority assessors.
• Inputted into our matching process of Authorities to Associates this autumn and taken the lead in managing this process come January.
• Become the main contact for our local authority contacts and placements pipeline.
• Drafted an Authority recruitment strategy for 21/22.
• Presented at local and national public planning events and meetings and chaired a Public Practice event (or two).
• Conducted check-in calls with Associates, off-boarding calls with line-managers.
• Reviewed and developed our Authority marketing materials, including producing further ‘Placement Types’ summaries and slide decks.
• Identified areas of improvement in the way we record and manage our Customer Relationship Management system and pipelines.
• Participated in our Working Group sessions and helped curate our Spring 2021 Forum event.
• Attended a number of professional training days and developed your own personal development plan.

ABOUT YOU

As our Recruitment Manager, you will be passionate about the Public Practice mission and motivated by the prospect of becoming involved in a small, dedicated team working to help change perceptions and experiences of working within local government planning. You will be comfortable joining a collaborative team, open to taking initiative, testing ideas and learning as we grow.

We are open to applicants with a wide range of skills and backgrounds, but for this role, we will be looking for the following:

• In-depth knowledge of the built environment industry
• Excellent organisational skills, with a focus on customer relationship management
• Confident networking skills and the ability to forge new client relationships
• Exceptional verbal and written communicator
• Knowledge of the recruitment industry and recruiting best practices
• Enthusiasm about developing an inclusive and diverse public planning sector

Only applicants who have the right to work in the UK at the time of application will be considered for this role.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Public Practice is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and we value the diversity of perspectives that people from different backgrounds bring to our work. We positively encourage applications from eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identification, ethnicity, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation. If you feel that you have something to offer but are not sure whether you fulfil the person criteria, we would strongly encourage you to contact us at work@publicpractice.org.uk to explore whether it could be right for you.

WORKING AT PUBLIC PRACTICE

Public Practice is a young but fast-growing not-for-profit social enterprise with strong leadership and governance. You will be working with a high-profile Board chaired by Jules Pipe, Deputy Mayor of London. We are based in central London, currently in the Urban Innovation Centre in Clerkenwell, in the heart of London and provide a generous 30 days holiday per annum (FTE) exclusive of bank holidays. We also provide a 4% employer’s pension contribution, a healthy staff training budget, four personal professional development days a year, personal wellbeing budget, regular social events with our Associates and Alumni and a supportive team environment.

35,000 - 55,000

We’re not fully sure whether this role is open to international candidates. If you would need visa sponsorship or work authorisation, we recommend checking directly with the employer before applying.