Selection Lead in London

About Police Now

We are working towards a day when every community, whatever the socio-economic background of its residents, can thrive without being fearful of crime. We are looking for talented, committed and mission-aligned individuals who will drive us towards achieving our ambitions.

Police Now recruits and trains graduates and career changers with leadership potential to become inspirational police officers and outstanding crime fighters on our National Graduate Programme. Graduates can pursue a variety of specialisms working in Neighbourhood Policing, as a Detective or within Counter Terrorism or Economic Crime units.

Police Now aims to create systemic change. We need highly capable impactful staff to support the recruitment and development of our officers and to cultivate strong relationships with partner forces and the wider sector.

The purpose of your role

We're looking for a Selection Lead to join our award-winning team, to be responsible for driving innovative and rigorous selection and assessment activity for Police Now's National Graduate Programme that will enable us to achieve our ambitious mission.

You will lead on all selection activity for our programme, delivering high-quality and best practice assessment alongside providing an inspiring and engaging candidate experience. This will involve the 360‐selection lifecycle, from planning, implementation, delivery and evaluation. We deal with a high volume of candidates, so you'll bring a solutions‐focused approach to how we can maximise our efficiency and be smart with our time, including how we can ensure value for money in our delivery. You'll be passionate about supporting underrepresented groups through the candidate journey, and will continually strive for parity across all demographics, creating interventions and considering positive action where appropriate.

You will manage day‐to‐day relationships with partnered suppliers, fostering creativity and collaboration, ensuring project timelines are met to a high standard. You will also line manage one direct report, supporting and guiding them to deliver an exceptional level of candidate care.

You'll be a self‐starter, able to confidently work independently on new projects, designing content, piloting fresh approaches, and using data and evaluation to inform future developments and improvements, driving innovation for our team. There is true scope to own your areas of responsibility, with support and guidance from our Recruitment Delivery Manager, giving you the opportunity to bring your knowledge and experience to the role and show your creative flair.

Key responsibilities

• Work collaboratively, including line management of a Coordinator, within our Recruitment Delivery sub‐team of six, contributing to a high‐performance culture and ensuring a high‐quality candidate experience.
• Ensure a market‐leading, engaging and immersive candidate experience is provided to everyone who applies for our programme, driving the design of candidate support materials throughout the journey.
• Prioritise the implementation of inclusive, unbiased and highly rigorous assessment practices, including a commitment to ensuring our approach to equity, diversity and inclusion is market‐leading.
• Manage relationships with suppliers (including our assessment consultancies and digital platform providers) to ensure project timelines are met to a high standard.
• Lead on stakeholder and team communication and training related to selection processes for our programmes.
• Take the lead on executing vital processes across selection delivery as required.
• Conduct ongoing analysis, with oversight of relevant data and projections to aid the senior team in understanding trends and barriers that our candidates are experiencing.
• Utilise data to understand performance, creating efficiencies and identifying and solving problems. Conduct thorough evaluations at the end of each campaign to make recommendations for future improvements to our selection approach.
• Project management of innovation projects, such as new programme requirements, processes and platforms ultimately planning for the success of future cohorts, ensuring our approaches remain market‐leading and relevant.
• Input into the creation and design of our end‐to‐end selection processes, ensuring engagement and innovation, rigour and robustness, working in close partnership with key stakeholders across the Marketing Directorate, wider Police Now and suppliers to understand the critical skills and preparation required for participants on our programme.

Key Requirements

• Significant proven assessment and selection experience, preferably in the graduate recruitment sector or a similar high‐volume environment, with an enthusiasm for selection innovation.
• Confidence in proactively managing high‐volume candidate pipelines in a tailored and strategic way and using pipeline insights to implement interventions appropriately.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about equity, diversity and inclusion, including ways to enhance inclusive practices and support candidates from underrepresented groups.
• Exceptional project management and execution skills, with the ability to independently prioritise effectively whilst managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‐paced, agile environment with resilience, optimism and a proven ability to manage change, ambiguity and a high‐level of complexity and risk whilst still achieving excellent outcomes.
• Collaborative, can‐do attitude, actively looking for solutions in the face of adversity and troubleshooting swiftly and effectively.
• Strong relationship builder, able to build connections across a wide range of internal and external stakeholder groups quickly and comfortable with escalating concerns appropriately.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with confidence presenting to internal and external groups that include a range of seniority levels.
• Awareness of key recruitment marketplace and policing sector issues and ability to articulate these succinctly.
• Willingness to work flexibly during periods where assessment centres are running and on occasion travel within England and Wales.

What you'll get from us

• A bright, airy and modern office in Zone 1.
• Competitive salary of £47,800 – £51,000 per annum, pro rata (dependent on experience and inclusive of London weighting).
• Flexible working and operate a hybrid working model with both work and home and office.
• One month paid sabbatical every 5 years service.
• 27 days annual leave each year, plus bank holidays and typically close between 25th December to 1st January.
• A range of hospitality discounts.
• Access to coaching through our online platform, Kinhub, to support your wellbeing and career goals.
• Access to our health cover provider, which includes healthcare benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme and discounts.
• Staff development fund that employees can access to support their ongoing training and development.
• 3 'Growth and Giving' days per year which can be used for study leave, wellbeing or volunteering.
• Annual EDI training, including e‐learning and additional EDI training opportunities.
• Participation in a pension scheme (with 6 % employer contributions and 2 % employee contributions).
• Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work, technology and gym membership, to help spread the cost of expenses.
• Regular cultural awareness initiatives and events to celebrate diversity of our team, seeking opportunities to learn, share experiences and engage in meaningful dialogue.

Please note

The closing date for this role is at 9am on Monday 22nd June. Applications will be screened as they are received and invited to interview accordingly. Police Now reserves the right to close the advert prior to the advertised date, early applications are therefore encouraged. Some roles within Police Now require certain levels of National Security Vetting or screening in order to effectively work with our partners. Therefore, we may ask you to complete this if you are successful. We cannot provide sponsorship for applicants. Applicants must have the relevant right to work for the UK before applying.