Location
Glasgow, GB
Department Name
Scotland's Railway
About Network Rail
At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter. Watch our video to find out more!
Scotland's Railway is part of this large family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don’t always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone.
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Brief Description
As a Resourcing Business Partner Support, you will see your role split between recruiting for a high volume of vacancies from approval to offer as well as supporting our Early Careers Manager in delivering our early career initiatives such as our apprentice, graduate and work experience routes.
In both instances, you will work closely with the onboarding team to address pre-employment issues and will support in all administration tasks which includes updating trackers and creating reports.
Your goal is to deliver an excellent experience for all candidates and managers whilst meeting internal deadlines, early career targets and ensuring compliance. You will be responsible for managing shared inboxes and responding to stakeholder and candidate queries. This role will give you exposure to interfacing with managers and Directors.
Maintaining data, processes, and systems with precision, accuracy, and care will be a core part of this role. You will a dvise hiring managers on recruitment methods and sourcing, and support in creating business engagement to sign up to early career initiatives.
Reporting into the Head of Resourcing, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of future talent pipelines and shape the experience of early careers candidates across Scotland as well as promoting Network Rail to be an employer of choice.
Travelling to various office locations or attending career events Scotland wide will be required.
About The Role (External)
Your daily activities will include: -
- Writing job adverts and using both internal and external platforms to advertise vacancies.
- Advising hiring managers when roles are closing and due to be screened to continually maintain the candidate experience.
- Managing candidate offers - including salary approval and benchmarking, attaching all documentation to maintain transparency and compliance.
- Responding to general queries from candidates and hiring managers.
- Co-ordination of the recruitment approval process prior to any roles being advertised.
- Co-ordination of Recruitment Workshops, Recruitment Days for high-volume roles and supporting Early Engagement Events.
- Daily housekeeping of your vacancies which can be circa 50 roles at any time.
- Supporting the early careers manager with engagement and assessment activities
- Coordinating work experience placements and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
- Engaging with schools, colleges, and universities to promote early careers opportunities.
- Updating trackers and creating reports to present at monthly meetings
You will be a confident and enthusiastic self-starter with excellent organisational and communication skills, capable of working independently and proactively. We will be looking for you to demonstrate your ability to deal with a variety of duties and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Essential Criteria that you will bring to the role: -
- Demonstrable experience of working in a recruitment environment whilst providing a good candidate experience in a fair and consistent way.
- Excellent communication skills. We will be looking for demonstrable experience of posting on internal and external social media channels.
- Experience of working to deadlines in a volume orientated resourcing/recruiting environment
- Proven organisational and process management experience.
- Proven experience of Microsoft Office and utilisation of applicant tracker systems
- Previous experience in database and administrative process management for uploading resourcing documents.
Whilst it's not essential, it will be desirable for you to have:
- A basic knowledge of relevant employment law and the employment marketplace
Assessment format
- Verbal Reasoning and Prioritisation assessment
- Competency based interview with a presentation.
How To Apply (External)
Salary: The salary will be £31,000
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Closing date: Midnight of 11 th August 2025. Late applications will not be accepted.
Please note proof of all essential qualifications will be required.
Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.
Please note the recruitment process for this role is a verbal reasoning and prioritisation assessment followed by a competency based interview with a presentation.
We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!
Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. You can visit Evenbreak’s Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you’re unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.
All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information
