Early Careers Lead - 12 Month Contract in Belfast

This role is based in Belfast and will not offer sponsorship.

Your Career, Your Danske Bank

What you’ll do:

• Develop and manage our early career programmes; apprentices, school leavers, to build future skills and bolster our long-term talent pipelines to enhance Danske Bank’s reputation as an employer of choice in the NI marketplace.
• Develop and deliver an ambitious early careers strategy and recruitment campaigns.
• Design innovative development programmes for apprentices to accelerate their growth.
• Build strong partnerships with universities, colleges and schools to identify opportunities and enhance early career initiatives.
• Manage queries from apprentices throughout the Bank.
• Collaborate with internal teams to create a compelling Employer Brand and social media strategy for early careers.
• Liaise with external partners to provide upskilling to students on CV & Interview skills within colleges & universities.
• Monitor market trends to ensure competitive resourcing strategies.
• Engage and influence senior leaders to support early career activities.
• Manage funding compliance and ensure fairness and inclusivity in all activities.

Your skills:

• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders and inspire participation.
• Good project management skills with a history of successfully managing multiple projects concurrently and to deadlines.
• Astute problem-solving abilities.
• A willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• Creativity and a passion for making a positive impact.
• A commitment to promoting fairness, diversity and inclusion.

Note: This role requires a degree of flexibility due to the demands of attending careers fairs/universities which can occur at weekends and outside business hours. Clean driving license & access to a car is required.

How We Work:

Our belief is that we are “Better when Together” and want to balance the benefits of teaming up in person with flexible working where possible. We will be supportive and flexible to your circumstances, so for roles that offer a hybrid option we ask colleagues to attend their base location a minimum of 3 days a week so they can connect, collaborate and learn together. The other 2 days can be worked either from home or another bank location. Some roles are customer facing which means that it’s really important to be able to work with customers face to face and hybrid working isn’t appropriate.

Benefits:

There’s much more to working at Danske Bank than just a salary but for this role we are offering a competitive salary. We aim to be a workplace in which our colleagues can succeed and feel empowered through all stages of their career and life. We offer an attractive range of flexible benefits centred on wellness, financial, psychological, physical and social. Benefits can be tailored to your needs. Examples include extra holidays, medical treatment, Danske Discounts with non-stop discounts, and a salary sacrifice car benefit where eligible. If the gym is of interest you can avail of savings on gym membership.

Equal Opportunity:

Danske Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of gender, ethnicity, background, nationality, generation, age, working style, religious background, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and cognitive diversity, including neurodiversity.

How to apply:

If this sounds good to you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by uploading your CV ensuring you have included enough detail to clearly demonstrate how you meet our criteria. Good luck! If you have a disability, long term health condition or additional need that requires accommodation or adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please advise us on your CV and a member of the team will be in touch to discuss.