Assistant Director (Talent Acquisition) - DIS

Role overview

This position is focused on leading end-to-end recruitment for the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS). You will manage a specialist team that sources, engages, and hires experienced technology professionals, while also shaping recruitment strategy, improving policies, and using data to guide senior decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support a lean team of talent acquisition specialists so that recruitment work is delivered smoothly from start to finish.
• Build, update, and use hiring dashboards to monitor important performance indicators.
• Analyse wider labour-market movements together with internal attrition trends, then turn the findings into practical reports for senior leaders.
• Assess current recruitment instructions, pay benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks, and help refresh them where needed.
• Spot process bottlenecks and simplify complex workflows while still protecting organisational risk controls.
• Design, test, and roll out new sourcing channels and partnerships with external professional bodies.

Role challenges

• Attracting and securing highly sought-after mid-career technology talent.
• Managing day-to-day hiring delivery while also influencing senior leadership through analytics-led reporting and policy changes.

Requirements

• A qualification in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of full-cycle talent acquisition experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in people management or team leadership.
• Background in recruiting mid-career or senior-level professionals, including candidate engagement and compensation negotiation.
• Ability to convert ATS information and spreadsheet-based metrics into structured, visually strong presentations for executives.
• Experience preparing recruitment guidelines, SOPs, and wider organisational policy documents.
• Strong command of digital hiring platforms and familiarity with enterprise ATS systems.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills for engaging senior military stakeholders.
• Practical, solutions-driven approach to overcoming institutional process barriers and creating better hiring methods.

Additional information

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

The role involves operational leadership, analytics, policy review, and innovative recruitment sourcing for tech hiring at scale.