Early Careers Engagement Specialist

Join us as an Early Careers Engagement Specialist at Barclays, where you'll be closely collaborating and fostering the vibrant Early Careers community. You would be acting as a central contact point, - cultivating a sense of trust, care, well-being and belonging for all involved. You would also partner with relevant 3rd party organisations, e.g. universities, code schools, gender diversity organisations, etc. to build Barclays’ brand, recruit new talent, and bring new content and opportunities to our existing employees.

To be successful as an Early Careers Engagement Specialist, you should have:

•            Fluent in English and Czech or Slovak

•Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

•            High organisational skills with the ability to adjust to a changing workload effectively, while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and accuracy

Some other highly valued skills may include:

•            Experience working in global organizations

•            Strong stakeholder management skills

•            Previous recruiter experience is an advantage

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in 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 will be based in our Prague office.

Purpose of the role

To oversee the smooth operation of the bank's business activities by handling a wide range of administrative tasks.  

Accountabilities

• Management and facilitating of the cost close out of projects, ensuring any outstanding issues/cost commitments are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Supporting identified payroll and related input processes and procedures i.e., receive and verify wage input sheets from operations, escalate queries and print and distribute pay slips.
• Provision of administrative support with regards to the implementation of the talent development strategy, policies, and procedures.
• Maintenance of accurate and organised records, including financial documents, reports, and other administrative files.
• Management of office supplies, equipment, and inventory, ensuring availability and ordering as needed.

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.