Early Careers Advisor -

Early Careers Advisor -

Job Description
Our Early Careers strategy is designed to grow and evolve using an array of opportunities such as T Levels, apprentices, interns and graduates to attract, develop and retain the technical, professional and leadership skills our business needs. You'll help shape how we deliver these outcomes - gaining strong exposure across programme delivery, learning, stakeholder engagement and of course through recruitment.
Development and Careers Prospects
This role offers genuinely strong foundations for your career in Early Careers and Talent and Development
You'll gain practical exposure to the full lifecycle: attraction, assessment, onboarding, learning delivery, stakeholder Management, and outcomes tracking, and you'll have the chance to contribute to how our strategy evolves over time . If you are passionate about Early Careers - or ready to grow into this space you will be supported to develop, broaden your experience, and help shape the outcomes we deliver.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities

• • Support Early Careers programme delivery across apprenticeships, internships and graduate pathways - ensuring high-quality participant and stakeholder experience
• • Coordinate mandatory technical training, including maintaining accurate data and supporting learning management systems activity
• • Contribute to pipeline and alumni management helping track participant progress and supporting long term talent outcomes
• • Assist with assessment, selection and onboarding activities, working with line managers and internal teams to meet resourcing needs
• • Drive Community engagement and talent attraction activity to strengthen our presence with schools, colleges and universities and external partners
• • Maintain accurate reporting and coordinate team activities relating to programme activities and apprenticeship training supporting quality improvement in provider communications and supporting line manager engagement.
• • Work with external providers and professional institutes, ensuring programmes meet the right frameworks and expectations
• • Support continuous improvement across the function using feedback and data to enhance processes and maximise efficiencies

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential

• Clear and confident communication, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders appropriately
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach - strong engagement, problem solving mindset, and the ability to handle confidential information with discretion and diplomacy
• Strong organisation and Time Management, able to manage multiple programmes and competing priorities with tight deadlines
• Experience using IT tools (including Word, Excel, Outlook) and confidence working with programme data translating complexity into clear insights, Quick Learner with curiosity and drive to build capability in Early Careers
• Great Team Working behaviours - Collaborative, Supportive, and confident communicating across functions with the business
• Shows Initiative - Takes ownership, identifies opportunities to improve and follows through
• Flexible and adaptable - comfortable working across multiple programmes and changing priorities
• Customer-focused mindset - Care for both participants and stakeholders, delivering consistently high standards
• Understanding of the Early Careers Landscape and or professional development pathways and funding routes.

Desirable

• Early Careers exposure is preferred but not essential - this role is also ideal for candidates who are relatively new and keen to build their experience in this field quickly
• Administration capability, including reporting and experience supporting learning/HR Systems (LMS exposure is a plus)
• Familiarity with Apprenticeship processes and legislation, including Digital Apprenticeship Account management.
  Experience in recruitment and development of Early Careers participants i.e. T Levels, Apprenticeships, Graduate Programmes and Interns)

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Qualifications
Desirable

• HR/Learning or relevant industry knowledge
• Experience with Oracle and/or Cornerstone (or similar systems)

About Us
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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