Early Careers Resourcing Advisor (10 month Fixed Term Contract)

Scottish Water; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Scottish Water seeks a talented individual to coordinate early career recruitment campaigns for Modern Apprentices and Graduates starting in summer 2026. This role requires a friendly and organised candidate who can manage high-volume hiring logistics and support a diverse range of applicants across their journey, ensuring an inclusive hiring process.

Benefits

38 days holiday including public holidays

Flexible working options

Annual company bonus

Access to community volunteering time

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experience in running high-volume recruitment campaigns is essential.
• Candidates need a solid understanding of early career hiring processes.
• Demonstrated ability to support under-represented candidates is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Work with leaders to define roles and funding for Modern Apprentices and Graduates.
• Manage logistics from vacancy creation to offer, ensuring a smooth process.
• Coordinate candidate communications with clarity and warmth.

Skills

Proactivity

Clarity

Stakeholder Management

Inclusive Hiring

Tools

Workday

Talogy

Job description

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.

We’re always excited to welcome the new Interns, Apprentices, and Graduates who join Scottish Water each summer. They’re the people who’ll keep Scotland’s water flowing in the years to come – so we put real care into giving them the best possible start to their careers.

Hiring our trainees is a year-round effort: planning starts in the summer, attraction campaigns go live in the autumn, assessment and selection run through the winter, then in spring we’re planning their onboarding and induction. When summer rolls around, we roll out the red carpet for our new hires… and then we get do it all again!

With our current campaign specialist heading off on maternity leave later this summer, we’re looking for a friendly and organised person to join us on a fixed-term contract and help us coordinate our 2026 campaigns.

What You’ll Do

You’ll help us recruit the Modern Apprentices, Graduate Apprentices, Interns, and Graduates who’ll join in summer 2026 – and help us pilot a new PhD entry programme, too.

Working alongside a People Coordinator and colleagues from across the business, you’ll:

• Work with leaders to confirm what roles we’re hiring for and how their training will be funded
• Help shape and communicate the “sell” for each opportunity, so candidates know what they’ll be learning and the environment they’ll be working in
• Collaborate with our Talent Attraction and Brand team to deliver engaging attraction campaigns
• Manage campaign logistics from vacancy creation through to offer, supporting a smooth experience for around 5,000 applicants
• Build strong relationships with hiring managers, keeping them informed and on track
• Deliver friendly, clear candidate comms with warmth, and a sense of humour
• Be a key contact for candidates who need adjustments during the hiring cycle, helping them feel confident about asking for help
• Support onboarding and “keep warm” activity post-offer

You’ll be part of the Resourcing and Talent Planning team – a team of eight who look after Scottish Water’s long-term resourcing strategy and keep our future talent pipelines flowing. That means that there’s plenty of opportunity to get involved beyond early careers, including:

• Supporting targeted campaigns for under-represented groups
• Developing sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill roles
• Reviewing our assessment tools to make sure they’re fair, fit for purpose, and friction-free

What You’ll Need

Experience running early careers campaigns—or similar high-volume, cyclical hiring—will be essential, along with a clear understanding of what first-time jobseekers need from a recruitment process. You’ll bring fresh ideas to make that journey smoother, more engaging, and maybe even more fun.

Proactivity, clarity, and the ability to confidently guide multiple stakeholders toward a deadline will help you keep everything moving.

A love for structure, planning, and data is a part of your natural working style.

Inclusive hiring matters to you, and you can demonstrate how you’ve supported under-represented candidates to feel welcomed and set up for success.

Experience using Workday’s Recruiting module would be a bonus. As would accreditation in administering psychometrics – we use Talogy as our assessment platform.

Looking out for you

While the work we do is important, we know it’s not the only thing that matters. That’s why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.

This is a full-time role (35 hours per week). But you’ll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take time off to volunteer in your community.

When it comes to major life events we have family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave. And for the everyday? We embrace flexible working.

For your future, there’s our pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind), and life assurance.

As for some nice extras? You can expect an annual company bonus. Not to mention access to SW Splash – handy rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.

The not-so-small print

This role will be a Grade 6. If you’re new to Scottish Water, you’ll join us on a starting salary of £33,560. Performance-driven pay progression would then allow you to move through the range to a maximum of £44140.

You’ll be officially based the Scottish Water’s central belt hub that’s closest to your home – either Stepps, Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, or Dundee. The Resourcing and Talent Planning team come together as a team in the Stepps office every Tuesday. Outside of that, they work remotely or from a Scottish Water site.

Job offers at Scottish Water are conditional, and will be confirmed on completion of our pre-employment screening, e.g. referencing, criminal record checks, license checks, etc. Screening is conducted on our behalf by a third party, and must be completed before your start date. Don’t worry - we’ll only start these checks once you’ve accepted an offer.

If you’re interested in this role – or know someone who might be – we will be accepting applications until midnight on 22nd June 2025

Interviews for this role will take place w/c 30th June, with a target start date of early-mid August.

A few final things worth knowing…

Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If you’re interested in this job, but don’t tick all the boxes, apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So don’t rule yourself out!

Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). We're also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events, like menopause. We’re very used to making adjustments, so please don’t be afraid to ask.

As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it’s important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us, your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you don’t already live here, you'll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.

Finally (finally!), candidates who haven’t submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You won’t need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted.

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