AECOM Hiring for Early Careers Recruitment Partner, Apprenticeships at Birmingham Full Time

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

Job Description

Our Early Careers (EC) Talent Acquisition Team is responsible for our high-volume recruitment of graduates, apprentices & university placement students annually into our offices across Europe. As one of the largest recruiters in our sector, our high-volume recruitment is managed by our in-house EC recruitment team based in the UK, recruiting graduates, apprentices, and placement students across engineering, environment, project management, surveying, architecture & design, and much more.

We are looking for an experienced EC recruiter to join the team with a focus on Apprentice recruitment across all the sectors we operate in. The successful candidate will report into the EC Recruitment Lead for Europe, taking a lead on our apprentice recruitment from attraction through to selection. The role will have a UK & Ireland focus, while linking in with our recruitment partners in Europe. We are looking for someone with the vision to look at our whole apprentice recruitment piece holistically and drive it forwards.

Job Duties Will Include:
Partnering with the business to deliver their apprentice recruitment needs on time and with relevant high-quality students

Providing recruitment advice to the business including targeted advertising, the recruitment process, and the apprentice levy process

Supporting the delivery of our apprentice marketing & attraction campaign, including marketing collateral, advertising jobs, and coordinating & attending events

Analysing the success of our marketing & selection processes, and researching new initiatives for niche and hard to fill roles

Work closely with the Talent Management (TM) team to ensure a smooth transition from TA through to TM

Developing our social value initiatives to improve the diversity of our EC intakes

Coordinating and attending college & virtual careers events

Candidate management, ensuring all applicants are processed swiftly and communicated with clearly at all stages

Supporting the wider EC recruitment team with graduate recruitment where required

Strong focus on process improvement across all areas of our marketing & assessment, to ensure we are consistently delivering excellence and added value to the business, and differentiating AECOM from our competitors

Qualifications

A relevant internationally recognized degree, relevant experience or specific industry qualification in Marketing, HR or TA is preferred.

Experience in early careers recruitment – experience in apprentice recruitment would be a significant advantage

A good understanding of the apprenticeship levy in England

Experience of designing & implementing first class marketing & attraction campaigns for graduate and preferably apprentice recruitment

Experience of coordinating & delivering assessment days

Ability to influence key stakeholders in the business to ensure all processes are followed, and that all applicants go through the same fair and consistent assessment process

Experience of high-volume candidate management and preferably experience of using the ATS Smart Recruiters

Evidence of delivering process improvements, how this helped the recruitment process, and how it added additional value to the business

Excellent attention to detail, and ability to record and present data accurately and professionally

Excellent Excel and Word skills

Ability to work as part of a team and individually, and a drive to deliver excellence and to continuously improve

Ability to prioritise, multi-task and manage time effectively

Additional Information

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.