Early Career Lead – 12 month contract in Birmingham

Type: commercial

Firm: Accountancy

Salary: £30 - 35,000

Location: Birmingham

Top ten Accountancy firm seeks an Early Careers Lead. You will be responsible for delivering and coordinating assessment centres for national service lines, and for managing a team of co-ordinators. Working closely with the National Early Careers Manager, Early Careers attraction Coordinators, and the Service Line representatives, you will help deliver the Talent strategy in line with our ‘grow your own’ strategy and our diversity agenda.

Core Duties will include:

• Manage day to day performance of team, whilst ensuring Coordinators are equipped with the information they need to deliver against our forecasted hiring volumes.
• Engage proactively and ensure a positive experience for Students/candidates, suggesting and implementing process improvements as necessary.
• Work in conjunction with the TA operations Lead to review and make recommendations for process improvements.
• Ensure delivery against D&I targets and support initiatives to attract a diverse talent pool.
• Ensure the right selection and assessment tools are managed and utilised, providing robust reporting on success measures.
• Use the Recruitment technology and ensure full compliance of use by team.
• Ensuring the recruitment process is followed and reinforcing best practice as well as overseeing the entire recruitment process from application to decision, to ensure a smooth process.
• Key interface with internal stakeholders to upskill capability for managing robust selection criteria and ensure fair selection throughout.
• Act as the champion for trainee experience, ensuring the firm delivers an exceptional experience.
• Build strong connections with the HRBP community to identify opportunities to improve service by gaining a deep understanding of the business lines and future growth plans.
• Be a brand ambassador, building a robust outreach strategy to connect and engage the talent, through schools/universities etc.
• To book, coordinate, deliver and attend attraction events with the area of responsibility, work closely with the wider national early careers attraction strategy.
• Responsible for the student recruitment advertising budget and ensuring ROI.
• Liaising with third party advertising companies for campaigns.
• Dealing with escalated issues from candidates/system/regions.
• Main point of contact for social media content for students.
• Providing robust management information to the business/early careers team.
• Managing a team of coordinators.
• Ad-hoc projects as required.

Ideal Candidates must have the following:

• Communication/interpersonal skills – you must be an adept communicator, ability to engage and influence across the business.
• Confidence – you must be comfortable dealing with people at all levels.
• Discretion – you must be aware of the confidential nature of the work within the boundaries of employment law.
• Proven Team leadership – you need to engage, drive, and support the Talent acquisition Executive Hire team to succeed.
• Pressure – you must respond well to pressure and deadlines and be effective in fast-paced environments.
• Driven – it is vital that you are completely committed to the job, ready to hit the ground running and are willing to put in the extra effort where necessary.
• Professionalism – you are the representative of the company to new starters, so it is essential that you are polished and professional, to make a good first impression.
• You must also be willing to work outside of standard hours when necessary.
• In addition, a good knowledge of all Microsoft packages is required.
• Candidates are advised that this role requires some national travel from time to time.