The purpose of your role We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join our small yet effective People Team as our HR and Recruitment Assistant Manager. This is a critical role in the team and is designed to lead Police Now’s internal recruitment process, ensuring we have mission-aligned, talented, and diverse individuals working at our Head Office. The role is the first point of contact for candidates and hiring managers, supporting them throughout the recruitment journey, and effectively managing and taking responsibility for each stage of the process from attraction, selection, and onboarding. Along with the support of a HR & Recruitment Coordinator, this position is integral in finding the very best people for our range of roles across our Head Office, ensuring every candidate’s journey is professional, timely and positive. As well as being responsible for the Head Office recruitment process, you will be involved in leading a range of HR projects and tasks. You will work collaboratively with the People Team to help shape an inclusive and equitable culture at Police Now Head Office, enabling employees to thrive in their roles. This is an exciting opportunity to utilise your recruitment and HR expertise in a versatile, supportive and agile working environment. Key responsibilities Lead on and continuously evolve the recruitment process for Head Office staff at Police Now, ensuring the process remains inclusive and accessible for candidates and provides them with an exceptional experience. Line manage the HR & Recruitment Coordinator, ensuring they have effective support, training and ongoing development planning to thrive in their role. Act as primary point of contact for hiring managers, guiding them through the end-to-end recruitment journey and providing them with feedback to ensure the process is followed to a high standard. Maintain an effective onboarding process, including running an all-day Induction Day to enable new starters to have a successful start in the role. Lead the delivery of strategic workforce planning, by analysing Recruitment and People data and interpreting trends to drive action to continuously improve our employee experience. This includes creating monthly reports for the Executive team. Work with the HR Manager and Head of People on key HR work-streams not limiting to critical role mapping, succession planning across the organisation and designing and delivering staff training. Standardise job descriptions and interview processes across all departments of Police Now to ensure consistency against Police Now’s Competency Framework and Leadership Principles. Maintain and nurture existing external partnerships and accounts, including advertising companies and our current Application Tracking System, and continue to look for new opportunities to develop networks. Manage the recruitment and office management budget lines, with support from the Head of People, allocating funds to ensure return on investment. Collaborate with the wider People Team with HR activity and projects such as office management and Health & Safety, performance review cycles, HR comms and EDI activities. Regularly review and monitor recruitment and wider HR policies and processes. Stay up to date with recruitment trends and standards and bring new and creative ideas to help us foster and continually build on our culture of inclusivity, innovation and development. Key Requirements Essential: Previous experience in leading and facilitating the recruitment, selection, and onboarding of applicants from initial advertisement through to appointment. Demonstrable experience and confidence in conducting interviews (telephone, online and in-person) and managing candidate pipelines. Experience of managing candidate pipelines through Application Tracking systems with the ability to quickly learn and understand new systems and processes. Excellent organisation, prioritisation, and time management skills with the ability to work flexibly to organise, plan and manage multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Excellent interpersonal skills, working with honesty, integrity and empathy, and experience with building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders. A genuine commitment and interest in Police Now’s Mission and the ability to consistently work in line with our Leadership Principles. A passion for equity, diversity and inclusion is essential, and experience in managing/supporting initiatives to build an inclusive environment would be desirable. Experience of line management or an interest in leading and developing direct reports. Desirable: Ability to analyse and interpret data and create reports. Experience of using own initiative to lead projects independently, whilst also working collaboratively with colleagues. A solutions focused approach with the ability to be proactive when tackling tasks and maintain positivity when faced with challenges. Confidence to share new ideas and effectively provide feedback to help us continually improve. Proficient user of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word and Excel) as well as the ability to learn new systems quickly. We are happy to accept applications from individuals that have most, but not all of the above elements of the person specification. If you are passionate about our mission, have an interest in policing, and have experience in recruitment and/or HR we’d welcome your interest. What you'll get from us A bright, airy and modern office in Zone 1. Competitive salary of £46,500 - £50,000 per annum (dependent on experience and inclusive of London weighting). Flexible working. 27 days holiday each year, plus bank holidays. A range of hospitality discounts. Sanctus coaching (private mental health coaching for the workplace). Access to the Vitality programme which includes healthcare benefits, an Employee Assistance Programme and discounts. Training opportunities for personal development. Participation in a pension scheme (with 6% employer contributions and 2% employee contributions). Additional Information The closing date for this role is Friday 31st January at 9am, please note we may decide to close the role prior to this date, so early applications are encouraged. This is a fixed-term maternity cover role until March 2026. This role is London based with requirements to travel to our London office approximately 2-3 times a week.