Early Careers Recruitment Specialist (AVP) 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

As an Early Careers Recruitment Specialist, you will be responsible for delivering aligned UK/EMEA candidate acquisition activity for varying aligned Programmatic channels; including but not limited to Interns, Graduate and Apprentices specifically as it relates to our events and assessment strategies. You will partner with the business and work in conjunction with Programmatic Planning teams, agree and attend a calendar of events associated with attraction to all Programmatic channels including campus, recruitment events. You will also implement and ensure execution of our attraction and assessment efforts that are in line with both firm goals and individual pathway goals  

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications: 

• Strong stakeholder skills with both internal and external stakeholders  
• Strong verbal communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders 
• Strong presentation skills to groups of varying sizes 
• Strong Excel skills, analysing data and insights led 
• Creative thinker with a desire to consistently improve quality of the candidate experience 
• Willingness and desire to travel 
• Working knowledge and further desire to learn regional end to end recruitment processes  
• Problem solving capability and solution focused 
• Strong organizational and administration skills and ability to multitask with agility 
• Strong attention to detail 
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability 
• Strong reputational, governance and risk mind-set 
• Strong understanding of current internal and external recruitment landscape 
• Strategically able to shape a compelling experience for recruiting candidates 

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong Microsoft office skills 
• Knowledge of end to end recruitment processes  
• Experience in managing direct reports  

This is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract based in London.

Purpose of the role

To source, attract, and hire of early career candidates.  

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of early careers recruitment strategies and programmes that align with the bank’s business goals, including the identification potential candidates through various channels, including job boards, social media, professional networks, and employee referrals.
• Build and maintain early career talent needs assessment to anticipate hiring needs and maintain a talent pipeline to ensure a consistent pool of candidates.
• Development of compelling job postings and marketing materials, execution and coordination of sourcing, screening and interviewing to assess candidates, making hiring recommendations and negotiating job offers.
• Onboarding processes for new hires, including orientation sessions administration, to facilitate a smooth transition into the organisation.
• Monitoring and reporting of key recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill, cost per hire, and source of hire, including the identification of areas for improvement and optimisation.
• Stakeholder management of hiring managers, academic institutions sourcing firms and professional organisations to develop a strong talent pipeline.  .

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.