Contract - Inside IR35
Start: MARCH - AUG 2025
Location: 2 days onsite in London per week (Monday & Friday) - there may be some flex on the Mondays
37.5 hrs per week
Role Summary:
Working within our client's Early Engagements Team as a Senior Internships & Placement Recruiter, you'll be at the forefront of sourcing and selecting top-tier talent for their internship & placement programmes across the UK. Your mission is to build strong relationships, develop innovative sourcing strategies, and manage talent pipelines to deliver quality and diverse hires in a competitive market.
Key Responsibilities:
- Programme Development: Create and launch new programmes to meet business need.
- University Relations: Build connections with universities and organisations to attract diverse talent & meet recruitment KPIs.
- Sourcing Events: Design and deliver engaging sourcing events, from on-campus skills sessions to networking events and presentations.
- Candidate Experience: Support candidates throughout their journey to ensure a smooth and positive experience, reducing offer reneges.
- Interviewing: Conduct a high-volume interviews per week during peak assessment period.
- Budget Oversight: Manage assigned budget ensuring accurate reporting and tracking.
- Recruitment Analytics: Perform analytics and reporting, providing real-time insights to the Apprenticeships & Internship/Placement Manager
- Trend Analysis: Stay ahead of Early Talent trends and competitors, identifying new sourcing methods in a competitive marketplace.
- Project Support: Assist with Early Talent Recruitment Team projects.
Candidate Management
- Manage pipelines for internship/placement programmes, ensuring continuous candidate engagement and an exceptional experience.
- Track and report on pipeline metrics such as source channel effectiveness, diversity statistics, assessment pass rates, and offer renege analysis to identify and address any barriers in the recruitment process.
- Be onsite in London on Mondays and Fridays to assist with logistics and conduct interviews.
- Support onboarding and engage with new joiners to ensure timely and efficient processes.
Relationship Management
- Manage relationships with stakeholders, hiring managers, and third-party owners.
- Engage faculty at all levels to deliver customised campus events both in-person and virtually.
- Build strong university partnerships to enhance brand awareness and attract diverse candidates.
Skills/Qualifications:
- Understanding of the Early Talent Recruitment Market and student job search trends.
- Experience in internship/placement recruitment
- Knowledge of selection, interviewing, and assessment best practices, including data privacy and equal opportunities, and ability to manage multiple pipelines
- Intermediate/Advanced Excel and PowerPoint preferable; data literate with the ability to identify trends.
- Strong organisational, time management, and attention to detail skills.
- Agile mindset with the ability to respond positively to changing demands.
