Delivery Partner for Graduate Recruitment

Description

The objective is to undertake effective advertising, search, selection and candidate management processes to recruit minimum 6 Graduates for Ofwat's Graduate Development Programme. There are 2 distinct streams within the Programme - Generalists and Economists. The former are located within the Strategy & Policy or Casework pools and the latter within the Analytics pool (the split being 50:50 Generalists and Economists). All Graduates (regardless of pool) will work across up to 3 relevant programmes via 6 month placements in order to complete the 18 month development programme. The Graduate development programme is a critical talent pipeline for Ofwat that allows us to fast track Graduates from Associate level through to Senior Associate level, whilst 'growing' skills that have been identified as being in short supply via our workforce planning and skills survey exercises. Scope of work We are looking for a Supplier to undertake targeted and effective advertising, recruitment and selection processes resulting in recruitment of minimum 6 high quality candidates to join our development programme. At all stages of long listing, short listing and assessment we require to see diversity suitably represented. The appointed Supplier will be required in conjunction with Ofwat to provide services as set out below. Any service not described below will be agreed between the parties. General requirement: • Project manage process from attraction to offer, to include all candidate correspondence via text message and email (with the exclusion of offer letters), portal set up, administration, management and updates. • Advise on appropriate media for advertising including social media • Place adverts for roles • Manage applications and responses • Initial sift (long-listing) and option for full sift (both via online portal) • Advise on the most appropriate ability testing of short-listed candidates • Purchase online tests, facilitate online testing and collate results • Advise on selection assessment centre content with option to redesign exercises. • Facilitation of a Selection Assessment Centre/s (SAC) • Option to provide 2-4 Assessors at SAC if needed • Provision of feedback for all attendees of SAC A complete audit trail must be maintained with MI available at each stage.

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