Recruitment Manager

Job details

Salary

£45,359 - £51,885 p/a

Contractual hours

36

Basis

Full Time

Employer

House of Commons

Job category/type

Human Resources, Recruitment

Date posted

09/10/2026

Job reference

REQ000235

Are you passionate about attracting exceptional digital and technology talent? We are looking for an experienced team manager to help Parliament build the skilled workforce needed to deliver innovative digital services and support UK democracy.

What you’ll be doing

At the heart of the House of Commons, our Recruitment Team delivers a high-quality, people-focused hiring service across the House and Joint Departments. Managing around 800 recruitment campaigns each year, we help attract outstanding talent, support internal mobility, and ensure every candidate enjoys a fair, inclusive and seamless recruitment experience.

As a Recruitment Manager, you will lead a small recruitment team within the wider Recruitment Team, with responsibility for recruiting to roles within our Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS). You will work in partnership with hiring managers, colleagues across the Recruitment Team and People & Culture colleagues to provide expert advice on attraction strategies, assessment and selection methods, and market trends, ensuring a positive and inclusive recruitment experience for all candidates.

You will also lead on proactively sourcing high-calibre digital and technology talent, building and maintaining talent pipelines to support current and future recruitment needs. You will play a key role in promoting and enhancing the PDS employer brand to attract the best candidates to Parliament.

This is a fast-paced and collaborative role where you will build trusted relationships with stakeholders across Parliament, develop innovative attraction strategies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment and onboarding processes. You will lead on delivering an outstanding experience for candidates and hiring managers within the Parliamentary Digital Service, ensuring recruitment is efficient, inclusive, compliant, and aligned with the values of the House of Commons.

This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with an expectation of you spending 40% of your time in the office.

Find out more about working at the House of Commons.

Why Join us?

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 after one full working year.
• Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Flexible working options that help you find a balance including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave, caring leave and alternative working patterns.

What we’re looking for

You’ll have significant experience of recruitment and selection of IT/digital professionals, including direct sourcing of candidates, as well as experience of managing an in-house recruitment team.

How to Apply

CV and Criterion Responses - If you would like to apply for this role, please submit your CV and provide evidence against criteria 1- 3 (500 words per criteria) in the Job Description.

More information on the application process can be found here: Application process - UK Parliament

Additional Information

Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.

Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Recruitment Manager

Recruitment Manager