Emerging Talent Coordinator

Location: Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Launch the careers of tomorrow while shaping the future of nuclear engineering. At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Emerging Talent Coordinator at our Leicester, Leicestershire site.

The role:

• As an Emerging Talent Coordinator, you'll play a vital role in supporting the attraction, recruitment, onboarding and development of apprentices, graduates and other early careers talent across the business.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Coordinating activities across emerging talent programmes, including inductions, development events, briefings, accreditations and graduation activities.
• Managing the Emerging Talent inbox and supporting both internal and external stakeholders with queries and guidance.
• Maintaining accurate management information, dashboards and reporting relating to apprenticeship and graduate programmes.
• Booking training and development activities against apprentice and graduate training plans and matrices.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives that enhance candidate, learner and stakeholder experiences.

This is a full-time, 37-hour-per-week role based in Leicester. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation to attend site two to three days per week. Travel to other Cavendish Nuclear locations will occasionally be required.

Essential experience:

• Experience communicating effectively within a customer-facing or stakeholder-focused environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Outlook.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Ability to maintain accurate records, reports and administrative processes.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve processes and deliver better outcomes.

Qualifications:

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.