Mustaqbali Graduate Programme 2026 (UAE Nationals Only)

Standard Chartered; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered in Dubai offers the Mustaqbali Graduate Programme 2026 for UAE nationals, providing entry into a full-time role with a tailored training plan, buddy and mentoring schemes, and networking with senior management.

You’ll gain hands-on experience across multiple banking functions and develop technical, business, and interpersonal skills for a future in the bank.

Qualifications

• Final year student able to start in July 2026.
• Permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.
• Willing to relocate or adapt to a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Driven mindset

Adaptability

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

GPA 2.8 or higher

UAEN with the family book

Job description

Job Details

Mustaqbali Graduate Programme 2026 (UAE Nationals Only) Requisition Number: 47333 Job Location: Dubai, ARE Global Grade: Band 8 Work Type: Office Working Employment Type: Graduates Posting Start Date: 19/01/2026 Posting End Date: 27/12/2026

Mustaqbali Graduate Program 2026

Our Standard Chartered UAE local graduate programme (Mustaqbali - مستقبلي) provides opportunities to move straight into a full-time role. We offer a wide range of entry level positions for individuals who know that they want to kick start their careers in the financial services industr

Our industry leading bankers will help you join one of the specialties below. As part of our assessment process, we help you learn more about the opportunities and determine which best suits your skills, attributes, and interests. Through the opportunities below, you’ll gain hands‑on experience and become an integral part of the team

• Wealth and Retail Banking
• Customer Experience (CX) Communications & Change/Engagement Management
• Customer Experience (CX) - Research & Insights
• Transaction Banking
• Operations
• Corporate Banking
• Compliance
• SC Ventures

You will follow a tailored training and development plan and will be supported and encouraged along the way through buddy and mentoring schemes and have the opportunity to network with our senior management team.

Our training programme will enable you to develop your technical, business, and interpersonal skills. You’ll get real‑world simulations and case studies that will make our training come alive. Future skill development is a key priority across the programme and your career development, as we're committed to changing the way banking works for the better.

About the programme

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• UAEN with the family book
• Driven mindset and comfort working in fast‑paced, evolving environment
• GPA 2.8 or higher

Eligibility

We welcome students from all degree disciplines with excellent academic records and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. You’ll be a final year student, able to start in July 2026, with the permanent legal right to work in the country you’re applying to.

We’re looking for team players who are agile, flexible, multi-tasking and open to nimble learning.

About Standard CharteredWe're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offerIn line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills,global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment AssessmentsSome of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.