Early Careers Lead

About this role

Were looking for a passionate early careers professional to manage and continuously evolve our internship graduate and placement programmes including the attraction selection and development journey.

As the Early Careers Lead you will play a key role in the shaping and influencing of our Early Talent strategy driving enhancements whilst ensuring a seamless yet impactful experience for our early careers intakes.

You will work closely with the business leaders and wider HR teams ensuring that the early talent strategy is aligned to our overall business goals whilst also leading on attraction and retention initiatives to ensure we continue to have a best in class offering.

What youll do

• Own the delivery management and continuous improvement of our Early Careers programmes

• Lead and develop a team of two Early Careers Recruiters

• Consult with business sponsors key stakeholders and the wider HR teams to explore and enhance our approach to attracting recruiting developing and retaining diverse talent

• Consult with business leaders to understand current and future development needs working in partnership with the Leadership & Development team to build alterations into the early careers programme

• Build and lead working groups to ensure consistency of quality and delivery of programmes across the business

• Oversee performance management probation and progression calibration sessions for the early careers cohort

• Leverage data and insights to understand the programme effectiveness and drive continuous improvements

• Be the subject matter expert for our Early Careers programmes acting as the key point of contact for queries

• Own the administrative processes for the delivery of our programmes

• Partner closely with the Talent Acquisition team supporting on recruitment initiatives

What were looking for

• Demonstrable experience leading early careers programmes

• A great communicator with the ability to clearly articulate results and future plans to business leaders

• An early careers subject matter expert comfortable with being the key point of contact for all programme queries

• Ability to build strong partnerships with your internal stakeholders guiding them on best practices whilst feeling comfortable challenging when necessary

• Experience leading crossfunctional projects and working with people at every level to see them through to completion and beyond

• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and being able to connect inputs from a variety of different stakeholders to form a credible story

• Excellent administrative skills with the ability to multitask and prioritise effectively

• A working knowledge of talent acquisition processes understanding how these impact the programme delivery

Where and how youll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office.

We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.

Were big on collaboration and connection so youll be based in our Nottingham office 3 days a week on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements and were open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

Whats in it for you

• Bring us all this and youll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme bonus generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance with flexible benefits available including seasonticket loans cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

• Openplan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham headoffice has a fullyserviced gym subsidised restaurant mindfulness and music rooms. In London you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee caf

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are whatever you look like wherever you come from. We know its about what you do not just what you say. Thats why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in to name a few:

• REACH Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies

• OutFront to provide LGBTQ support for all associates

• Mind Your Mind signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all

• Women in Tech promoting an inclusive environment in tech

• EmpowHER network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders particularly for female talent in our industry

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