Early Careers Senior Specialist - Pipeline Programmes in Birmingham

Early Careers Senior Specialist – Pipeline Programmes

Make an Impact at RSM UK

The RSM Early Careers Talent Acquisition team is responsible for hiring approximately 750 students annually onto our graduate, school leaver and placement programmes. In addition, we offer a variety of work experiences such as work shadowing and internships. The Early Careers Talent Acquisition team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the firm is attracting and selecting high‑quality, diverse candidates in line with our ‘Grow our Own’ initiative. Our goal is to provide a seamless, efficient experience to both candidates applying for our programmes and our internal stakeholders at every stage of the recruitment journey.

We are seeking a proactive and experienced early careers recruiter to join our Early Careers Talent Acquisition team as an Early Careers Senior Specialist to manage our pipeline programmes at RSM. Leading a small team, you will be responsible for designing and delivering work experience, internships and placement programmes which form an integral part of our early careers talent strategy. You will work with a wide range of key internal stakeholders to deliver the RSM early careers recruitment strategy, ensuring an excellent experience for all involved with the pipeline programmes including internal and external applicants.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and dynamic early careers team to support delivery of the early careers hiring strategy. Due to the location of existing team members and business needs, this role can be based in one of the following RSM offices:

• Birmingham
• Glasgow
• Edinburgh
• Manchester

You will be required to travel to other national RSM offices and attend external events (including occasional evening events) as part of this role throughout the year.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Overseeing and managing the end‑to‑end candidate application process via our applicant tracking system (ATS)
• Managing and supporting applicants through the recruitment process, designing and facilitating the work experience programmes and guiding those within your team to do the same
• Partnering effectively with service line stakeholders to deliver work experience, placement and internship programmes that meet their future hiring needs
• Proactively leading a small team to ensure an efficient, high‑quality service is delivered to both applicants and stakeholders
• Confidently delivering work experience programmes and induction sessions to programme attendees; ensuring the wider early careers talent acquisition team is trained and equipped to support the delivery of sessions
• Planning and delivering the end‑of‑programme conversion process across work experience, placement and internships to ensure strong conversion to permanent hires; working closely with our People Operations and Preboarding teams to ensure a smooth transition post‑offer
• Creating consistent recruitment processes across work experience, placement and internship programmes and ultimately being responsible for creating an excellent candidate experience and future pipeline for our student intakes

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience within a high‑volume early careers recruitment role and managing early careers programmes; ideally experience of working within a professional services or partnership environment
• Experience managing a small team or mentoring and actively supporting colleagues, with people supervision required
• Strong data management and reporting skills
• Enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment, undertaking multiple tasks and balancing several key priorities with varying deadlines
• Adroit communicator with the ability to engage and develop strong working relationships with a diverse audience – both internally and externally

What we can offer you:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• 26 days holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days)
• Lifestyle, health and wellbeing, including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, an electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our in‑house Talent Development team

Early Careers Senior Specialist – Pipeline Programmes • Birmingham, GB