KPMG Hiring for Student Recruitment Attraction Officer Job at Watford, East of England, England Full Time

Job Purpose

This role supports the student recruitment team through outreach and attraction activities from initial planning to delivery of virtual, in office, school, college and on-campus events. The Officer role plays a key part in a team that is dedicated to ensuring KPMG’s student recruitment programmes have a strong profile at target universities, schools and colleges and its recruitment process is leading within its industry. The Officer will work closely with Officers and Coordinators in order to provide an efficient, high quality, client focused service for candidates and the business alike. The key duties of the Attraction officer will be:

• Support the delivery of key outreach work streams including Student Brand Managers, Sponsorships, KPMG Innovation Case Challenge and Volunteers.
• Assist with planning campus activity and arranging how the Student Recruitment team will deliver this.
• Implement an internal communication strategy to inform the internal audience about recruitment outreach activity.
• Establishing and developing best in class content to use virtually, on campus and in schools and colleges including presentations, communications and events materials.
• Working with the Brand & Attraction team to ensure digital attraction activity is aligned to outreach activity.
• Produce and implement campus, school and college marketing plans for KPMG’s target universities, schools and colleges.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with campus contacts, including careers services and societies, and school and college careers advisors.
• Plan, promote and implement virtual, on-campus, school and college campaigns and activity with given target universities, schools and colleges.
• Liaise with event volunteers to deliver full briefings prior to each event.
• Organise, promote and deliver events as required virtually and at target universities, schools and colleges.
• Build relationships with/respond to ad-hoc queries from KPMG colleagues.
• Collating national reporting on outreach activity to inform future activity and provide business MI.

The Person

• Ideally has worked through at least two cycles of Student Recruitment Experience.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the student recruitment marketplace.
• Drive and commitment.
• A confident and engaging presenter.
• Good IT skills including Excel, Power Point, databases and internet research.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills with a keen eye for detail.
• Flexibility to work within a fast paced environment.
• Ability to adapt to change quickly and positively.
• Forward thinking and proactive approach.
• Self-motivated to work autonomously and also a good team player.

Whilst this role is office based, you will be required to travel to KPMG offices and some events around the country – this will require overnight stays during campaign time and on an ad-hoc basis throughout the year.