GFIE Cabinet Office -HR Resourcing and Secondments Manager

This role at The Cabinet Office is available to people who served in the Armed Forces, OR be in your resettlement period and due to leave the Armed Forces within a reasonable time frame OR Military Spouse/Partner:
Your current partner must still be serving OR was discharged within the last 12 months.

We want you to join us, learn new skills and bring your experience to our organisation. We believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference, and we want to ensure that all our staff are equipped with the knowledge and skills to do so. As part of your employment, you will have access to a range of learning and development, and a buddy who can help you to understand the Civil Service and enable you to make the most of the opportunities it offers.

We support the Prime Minister and ensure the effective running of the government. We are also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and we take the lead in certain critical policy areas.

Cabinet Office is a ministerial department, supported by 29 agencies and public bodies.

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Organisation: Cabinet Office
Job Title: HR Resourcing and Secondments Manager
Job Grade: Higher Executive Officer (HEO)
Positions available: 1
Salary: £37,922
Location: Leeds, York, Sheffield or Manchester
Contract Length: 24 months
Hours: The full-time working week is 37hrs. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours working from an office location (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, averaged over a month). In addition to regular office attendance, there is the requirement to travel for wider team meetings which happen roughly quarterly.

It would also be beneficial to be able to travel to Leeds or Manchester for regular visits with more immediate team.

Security Clearance Level: Counter Terrorist Check (CTC)

About the job

This role sits in the Government People Group which is the strategic centre for the HR Function in the Civil Service. Resourcing Policy and Practice (RPP) deliver key strategic and ministerial priorities in recruitment and resourcing space, which span the whole Civil Service. The Higher Executive Officers (HEO’s) will be working in the Resourcing and Secondments Expertise (RaSE) team within the RPP.

The team’s work areas, including secondments, are receiving increasing focus across government as departments look to share skills and bring in new expertise. Our team provides the core guidance and support needed to facilitate this.

This post offers an excellent opportunity to quickly develop core operational and policy skills within a busy, high-profile team, contributing to the delivery of several priority resourcing policy and strategic work streams. As a central liaison point, this role includes communicating effectively with teams, managers, and staff across departments to collect necessary information, chase progress updates, and ensure smooth information exchange.

This HEO role is a vital support position, ensuring the RaSE team operates efficiently every day. The postholder will provide essential work across the team's priority resourcing programmes and work streams.

Key responsibilities for this post may include:

• Workplan Management:
  Regularly managing and updating the Team’s workplan and proactively flagging any risks to delivery against deadlines.
• Enquiry Management:
  Acting as the primary point of contact for routine and programme/policy-related queries. This involves actively managing shared inboxes, accurately logging and triaging email queries, and drafting clear, quick responses regarding:
  • Secondments
  • Reserve Lists
  • SCS Handbook
  • Employment History Checks
  • Assignment Duration
• Briefings & Reporting:
  Supporting the preparation of clear briefings, reports, and information packs for ministers and senior leaders.
• Secretariat Duties:
  Managing the secretariat function for the Secondments Network, Gov Xchange programme working group, and other stakeholder meetings. This includes tracking actions, distributing internal communications, and ensuring policy documents are filed and reported on correctly.
• Data Management:
  Managing…