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Deloitte is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we recruit around 3,500 students every year into Apprentice and Graduate programmes, as well as a broad range of work experience opportunities. To fulfil these demanding requirements, we attract over 70,000 candidates each year. We have a passion not just for recruiting the best student talent in the marketplace but ensuring we’re making a positive impact on the lives of students in the UK, and our wider society. This means we’re focused on working with students at different times in their academic careers to educate them on career opportunities, helping them develop employability skills and ensuring we widen access to Professional Services to the most diverse range of candidates, by reducing barriers these students might face in exploring careers at Deloitte.

Due to continued growth and transformation, a fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our award-winning Early Careers Recruitment Team as Early Careers Talent Engagement Senior Manager. The Early Careers Recruitment team is fast paced, forward thinking, fuelled by achieving success, delivering a best-in-class experience, and committed to enhancing the firm’s diversity. The Early Careers Recruitment team numbers circa 30 inhouse resources plus additional RPO screening and scheduling support. The team sits within the Resourcing function as part of the UK firm’s wider HR capability. The Early Careers Recruitment team is based around the UK, working as one team to deliver a holistic service to our candidates and stakeholders.

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Reporting to the Head of Early Careers, as the Early Careers Talent Engagement Senior Manager, you’ll be a core member of the Early Careers and wider Resourcing Leadership team, responsible for the design of our firmwide Early Careers candidate engagement strategy. You’ll lead our talent engagement team manager and advisors to deliver the Early Careers agenda across our engagement programmes, UK universities and schools.

This is an exciting remit to design the strategy and own the delivery of Deloitte’s engagement across the UK Universities and Schools markets, and to lead the delivery of recruitment onto key engagement programmes that identify top talent earlier in their academic cycle, with the aim of generating supply onto our permanent hiring pathways. As a Senior Manager you’ll work closely with our other Early Careers Recruitment Senior Managers and our Resourcing Business Partners to understand the needs of the business, helping you to define the optimal talent engagement approach that will allow us to meet the UK firm’s ongoing skill and capability needs and hiring plans across all our early career programmes.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and lead the strategy for early careers Talent Engagement, responsible for the design of the UK Universities and Schools engagement plan, as well as local office engagement events – defining our approach to engagement, identifying the right tools and 3rd parties to partner with and designing an engagement plan to maximise our reach across both markets, that is in keeping with our values around inclusion and widening access and has a focus on ROI, aligned to the commercial plan
• Lead the delivery of recruitment onto our key engagement programmes (Career Shapers, Spring into Deloitte, Academies) and provide thought leadership on the continuous development of alternative delivery models, to ensure our engagement programmes not only attract quality, diverse talent, but also generate strong conversions and longer-term recruitment outcomes for the firm
• Identify key 3rd party suppliers who will amplify Deloitte’s engagement activity to ensure Deloitte is well represented across the market, engaging with under-represented groups to widen access to the firm and provide opportunities for them that generate hiring outcomes
• You’ll work collaboratively with our Early Careers Recruitment teams to understand the key priorities and challenges for each business area. Partnering closely with the Attraction Recruitment Marketing team, you’ll ensure that your mutual campaigns amplify each other and are aligned both to business demand and to cater appropriately for the channel mix across graduate, early identification and schools programmes
• Ensure University and Schools engagement plans are created and delivered upon that cater both to national service line hiring needs, but also regional hiring needs – with a focus on building out strong regional relationships
• You’ll build connections across our regional stakeholder teams and in turn connect them with their local universities and schools, to showcase the best of what Deloitte has to offer the local labour market, as well as taking a national view to meeting the national service line demand plan
• You’ll develop an approach to maximising stakeholder engagement in the plan, ensuring stakeholders are consulted during the planning phases and creating processes to capture local activity and connect available staff to centrally led activity
• You’ll design and own the firm’s ambassador engagement programme, maximising the strong potential of these Deloitte advocates across UK universities and schools
• Take ownership of relationships across UK Universities and Schools, leveraging your network to maximise Deloitte’s opportunity to engage with early talent and providing a reciprocal relationship, where you offer strategic insight and thought leadership of the employer perspective
• Lead a team of 8 to deliver high quality work by leveraging each person’s strengths and range of expertise ensuring performance is optimised throughout the year, recognised, and rewarded appropriately and where necessary, underperformance is addressed, whilst maintaining a healthy sense of wellbeing and role modelling the Deloitte leadership behaviours
• Take the lead in scenarios of complexity, navigating these using influencing skills, often in ambiguous and changing situations
• As a trusted advisor you will generate and interpret data insights for the Head of Early Careers, Resourcing leadership team and wider business stakeholders that monitor key performance metrics within your team, inform pipeline management and drive strategic decision making to ensure the right interventions and best practices are made within the talent engagement strategy to deliver quality, diverse hires aligned to the demand plan
• Anticipate risks, ensuring mitigation plans are in place and controls and processes are continuously improved, acting as a senior escalation point for your team and working closely with senior stakeholders across the firm and wider resourcing team to proactively resolving complex issues and market challenges
• Leverage relationships to significantly influence senior leaders in the firm including HR Directors, Business Leads, COO’s and People and Purpose Partners
• Develop our hybrid approach to cater for a mix of in person and virtual initiatives, ensuring we encourage the business to participate in engagement events, through new and innovative approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement and consistency across the Early Careers Talent Engagement team, ensuring that candidate and client experience are at the heart of everything we do and that your team are working aligned to the Resourcing experience principles by embedding best practice, sharing knowledge and insights and championing quality in the delivery of our talent engagement approaches
• Responsible for the Talent Engagement budget, working with Attraction & Recruitment Marketing and Finance to ensure spend is within agreed budgets and we are maximising ROI for the business
• Work closely with our Attraction & Recruitment Marketing team as a subject matter expert to ensure content and materials accurately reflect our offerings and are well positioned to meet the needs of our recruitment pipelines and work within the wider attraction framework to enhance the Deloitte brand and ensure we reach our target audiences
• Partner closely with the Learning function to ensure programme design and activities delivered by both teams in support of the programmes and development / cohort management operate seamlessly and offer a quality experience
• Be passionate about early careers engagement and playing your role as a leader in our industry to generate thought leadership and share best practice both internally and externally. You’ll take ownership of Deloitte’s early careers awards submissions and contributions to key employment and engagement surveys
• As part of the extended Resourcing Leadership team work closely with the Head of Early Careers to help drive the transformation agenda throughout our team and support on projects and initiatives outside of the day-to-day remit, as appropriate

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• Subject Matter Expert (SME) – In-depth and significant understanding of all aspects of early careers recruitment and/or emerging talent landscape in the UK, ideally gained in a knowledge based or professional / technical skills environment. You’ll have demonstrable experience of designing and implementing schools and university outreach campaigns and approaches within the UK – ideally on a multi-region basis
• People management – an exceptional and experienced people manager who is focused on coaching and developing their team to maximise their potential, demonstrating a thorough understanding of associated tools and strategies to ensure high performance and satisfaction, a champion for collaboration within the team, and across teams
• Leadership and influencing – acts as a SME on student recruitment related topics, bringing with you a well-established brand in the early careers market and a strong network of contacts across UK Universities, Schools, and key 3rd parties. Uses leadership skills effectively to influence others and ensure effective delivery against business plans and student recruitment strategies.
• Operational excellence – focused on achieving the best outcomes and delivering the best service to candidates and business stakeholders via operational excellence, and a passion for campaign and process improvements and optimising ways of working to ensure we deliver operational excellence in all the work of the team.
• Relationship management and strong interpersonal skills – ability to build strong and lasting relationships both internally and externally, based on credibility gained from extensive experience of UK student recruitment landscape and market; able to develop and manage relationships at all levels in the firm, up to exec-level
• Effective collaboration – proactively seeks out opportunities to work in collaboration with others (internally and externally)
• Strategic thinking – ability to create and develop appropriate talent engagement strategies for Deloitte both for the immediate and longer term (recognising the changing demands of the business and therefore types of talent required) as well as think strategically when posed with day-to-day operational challenges.
• Strong commercial acumen – strong commercial awareness coupled with the ability to develop and deliver strong commercial relationships for Deloitte. Focused on the ROI. Budget management
• Change agent – proactively drives change in a structured and controlled way, and seeks out opportunities to continually evolve the student recruitment offering for Deloitte from the perspectives of Talent Engagement
• Analytical and insightful – able to use data and MI effectively to undertake analysis and develop appropriate insights. Proactively uses analytics and insights to manage the candidate engagement team to deliver operational excellence, and when developing strategy and business cases.
• Complex workload/project management – able to plan and organise work effectively for self and others in a complex and ever-changing environment. Logical and pragmatic approach to delivering results with the ability to flex and adapt approach to ensure effective delivery, even when faced with unexpected changes or challenges
• Effective escalation – able to work autonomously but also able to understand where matters require further approval or escalation in order to resolve

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Location: The home office of this role is flexible

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.

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Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

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