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Date live: Aug. 05, 2025

Business Area: HR

Area of Expertise: Human Resources

Reference Code: JR-0000065461

Contract: Permanent

Join Barclays as an Early Careers Investment Banking Recruiter AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will engage with stakeholders across the organization and support talent acquisition within a fast-paced, high-volume environment. You will bring excellent presentation abilities, and experience with recruiting platforms commonly used in the industry. You will leverage your MBA recruiting experience to play a strategic role in Early Careers, sourcing and recruiting top associate level candidates. The team partners closely to meet critical hiring needs and build robust pipelines of future talent. Additionally, the team utilizes deep market insights and campus engagement strategies to attract diverse, high-caliber candidates. Light travel required during the fall season.

To be successful as an Early Careers Investment Banking Recruiter AVP, you should have:

  • Experience with recruiting platforms such as Handshake, TwelveTwenty and Simplicity a plus
  • Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and data storytelling
  • Working knowledge of Workday or similar HR systems
  • Familiarity with performance review processes and talent development cycles
  • Experience in banking, or high-volume recruitment environments

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • High attention to detail and considerable organizational skills
  • Discreet and trustworthy with sensitive information
  • Effective stakeholder guidance and cross-functional collaboration
  • Good communication and presentation skills
  • Adaptable and able to thrive in fast-paced, high-pressure environments

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $95,000

Maximum Salary: $125,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

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.

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