Emerging Talent Coordinator

Cavendish Nuclear; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Be Kind Day - paid leave for volunteer

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is looking for an Emerging Talent Coordinator to support apprentices and graduates across our UK sites. Based primarily in Leicester with a hybrid pattern, you will coordinate inductions, events and reporting for emerging talent programmes while liaising with internal and external stakeholders.

You will manage communications, training bookings and continuous improvement efforts to enhance candidate experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience communicating effectively within a customer-facing or stakeholder-focused environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Outlook.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Ability to maintain accurate records, reports and administrative processes.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve processes and deliver better outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating activities across emerging talent programmes, including inductions, development events, briefings, accreditations and graduation activities.
• Managing the Emerging Talent inbox and supporting both internal and external stakeholders with queries and guidance.
• Maintaining accurate management information, dashboards and reporting relating to apprenticeship and graduate programmes.
• Booking training and development activities against apprentice and graduate training plans and matrices.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives that enhance candidate, learner and stakeholder experiences.

Skills

Customer-facing communication

Prioritization under pressure

Administrative excellence

Tools

Excel

Outlook

Job description

Location: Leicester, Leicestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

75037

Launch the careers of tomorrow while shaping the future of nuclear engineering

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Emerging Talent Coordinator at our Leicester, Leicestershire site.

Job Title: Emerging Talent Coordinator

The role

As an Emerging Talent Coordinator, you'll provide administrative and coordination support for the Emerging Talent programmes for our apprentices and graduates across the business.

Day-to-day, You’ll Be Required To

• Coordinating activities across emerging talent programmes, including inductions, development events, briefings, accreditations and graduation activities.
• Managing the Emerging Talent inbox and supporting both internal and external stakeholders with queries and guidance.
• Maintaining accurate management information, dashboards and reporting relating to apprenticeship and graduate programmes.
• Booking training and development activities against apprentice and graduate training plans and matrices.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives that enhance candidate, learner and stakeholder experiences.

This is a full-time, 37-hour-per-week role with the ideal candidate based near one of our main hub locations, Leicester, Bristol or Warrington. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation to attend site two days per week. Due to the locations covered by Emerging Talent this role will require infrequent travel to our base locations for team meetings, inductions.

Essential Experience Of The Emerging Talent Coordinator

• Experience communicating effectively within a customer-facing or stakeholder-focused environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Outlook.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Ability to maintain accurate records, reports and administrative processes.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve processes and deliver better outcomes.

Qualifications For The Emerging Talent Coordinator

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 19/10/2026

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