Talent Acquisition Early Careers Programme Coordinator

RSM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a proactive and enthusiastic Early Careers Programmes Coordinator to oversee their work experience, internship, and placement programmes. This role involves significant stakeholder interaction and requires excellent organizational and communication skills. You will be pivotal in attracting future talent and ensuring consistent recruitment processes. The company offers a flexible benefits package including hybrid work arrangements and extensive training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

25 Days Holiday

Health and Wellbeing benefits

Access to 300+ courses

Qualifications

• Experience in early careers talent acquisition, preferably high volume hiring.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead work experience and internship administration.
• Act as RSM brand ambassador for internships.
• Coordinate logistics for internship programmes.
• Be the main point of contact for candidates.
• Ensure cohorts have allocated line managers and buddies.
• Maintain recruitment processes and manage candidate pipelines.
• Focus on diversity and inclusion.
• Collaborate with internal branding and comms team.
• Support attraction events and assessment activities.

Skills

Talent Acquisition experience

Organizational skills

Time management skills

Communication skills

Data management skills

Relationship building skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

ATS platforms

Job description

Talent Acquisition Early Careers Programme CoordinatorWe are searching for an experienced Talent Acquisition Early Careers Programme Coordinator

Make an Impact at RSM UK

RSM is seeking a proactive and enthusiastic Early Careers Programmes Coordinator, to join our Early Careers Talent Acquisition team. Working closely with the wider Early Careers programmes team, you will be responsible for delivering RSM’s work experience, internship and placement programmes which form an integral part of our attraction and pipeline strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in engaging our future talent through work experience to support RSM’s early careers hiring needs.

Location

• Birmingham
• Glasgow
• Edinburgh
• Manchester
• Preston

You will be required to travel to other national RSM offices and attend external events (including evening events) as part of this role throughout the year.

You will make an impact by :

• Leading on work experience and internship administration relating to attraction and job adverts, recruitment processes, onboarding, programme delivery and offboarding.
• Acting as an RSM brand ambassador to deliver an exceptional internship and work shadowing offering nationally.
• Working closely with internal stakeholders to coordinate logistics for the work shadowing and internship programmes at RSM. Acting as a main point of contact internally for the business regarding work experience and internship programmes.
• Acting as a main point of contact for candidates applying and joining our work experience and internship programmes to answer their questions before, during and post programmes. This includes managing a central inbox.
• Ensuring these cohorts have an allocation of line managers, buddies, and mentors (if required).
• Ensuring consistent recruitment processes for the programmes are followed using recruitment technology efficiently to manage candidate pipelines and updating forecasts as required.
• Maintaining a focus on diversity and inclusion and support initiatives to attract a diverse talent pool including RSM’s commitment to Access Accountancy.
• Working closely with our internal brand and comms team to ensure we have the marketing materials required to attract candidates to our work experience programmes.
• Working as part of our national Early Careers Talent Acquisition team to ensure a joined‑up approach, supporting with attraction events and assessment activities as required.

What we are looking for :

• Early Careers Talent Acquisition experience, ideally high volume hiring.
• Experience of working within a professional services or partnership environment (desirable).
• Outstanding attention to detail, strong organisational skills and strong time management skills with the ability to work independently.
• An adept communicator, with the ability to engage and present to diverse audiences – confident speaking to groups in‑person and virtually.
• Good data management and reporting skills.
• Strong relationship building skills to manage stakeholder expectations and influencing.
• A professional, proactive individual with the ability to work under pressure in a fast‑paced environment.
• A good knowledge of all Microsoft packages and ATS platforms is required.
• Willingness to travel nationally and attend evening events.

What we can offer you :

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That’s why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

• Hybrid and Flexible working
• 25 Holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days)
• Lifestyle, Health, and Wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our inhouse Talent Development team>