PwC Hiring for Talent Acquisition Senior Associate Job at Newcastle upon Tyne, England Full Time

Forming part of PwC’s Business Solutions, this opportunity is for a Senior Associate, sitting within the People Solutions Talent Acquisition team. This role will deliver the firm’s student recruitment strategy to identify, attract, select and engage the most diverse, high quality talent from UK Universities and Schools but as required there may be the opportunity to support other areas of Talent Acquisition.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our award winning function as a Senior Associate specifically working on National Schools recruitment initiative.

Continuing to build our profile within schools and colleges, this role will work with students, teachers and parents/carers and will be responsible for attracting and recruiting students onto a range of schools programmes, including our Virtual Insight Week, Flying Start degrees and School and College Leaver programmes. We run a range of events throughout the year, both in person and virtual, to promote our key programmes, as well as developing employability skills with students from Year 10 to Year 13 to help prepare them for the world of work.

This role will work closely and alongside another Senior Associate in Talent acquisition and will provide support to the Talent Acquisitions Manager focusing on schools (and the wider team) to ensure the smooth running of our school/college activities and programmes. This is a varied role that will enable you to get involved in a variety of aspects of the programmes and initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Point of contact for the schools national team, ensuring actions are being completed and information is accurate and up to date.

• Working closely with the team to operationally manage our work experience programmes and schools events.

• Work closely with the Inclusion, Community and Wellbeing (ICW) Team and providing support to them in the pipeline management of their work experience programme.

• Managing the logistics of external relationships with suppliers and event organisers.

• Gathering data on our programmes and helping to measure impact and outcomes.

• Reviewing programme logistics and feedback to improve the experience for candidates and the teams delivering the programmes and ensuring excellent candidate experience is at the forefront.

• Coordinating events and activity for regional and national events, including specific marketing/attraction responsibility for the Flying Start Accounting, Technology and Business Management degree programmes.

• Responsible for designing content and delivering on our initiatives, e.g. Virtual Insight Week programme, Virtual Classroom and Back to Schools.

• Responsible for full pipeline management and onboarding process for Virtual Insight Week students and subsequent keep warm activities.

• Monthly reports for the team to share with key stakeholders.

• Sponsorship and invoice agreements processing.

• The key point of contact for safeguarding issues/queries.

Other responsibilities to include but not limited to:

• Support on delivery of elements of the recruitment process, such as assessment day hosting and assessing

• Participate in ad-hoc projects within the wider Talent Acquisition Team.

Skills needed for the role:

• Preferably some experience of school leaver recruitment/working with the schools market, or early careers.

• Proactive, able to manage own workload and prioritise a number of concurrent activities, including efficient management of the recruitment process.

• Excellent communication skills, including public speaking experience.

• Experience of preparing management information to report to management.

• Experience of managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels of seniority.

• Team player – keen to share knowledge and relevant information with team and internal clients.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently but recognising when appropriate to seek advice or escalate concerns.

Additional information:

• Opportunity for working from home? Yes

• Amount of time client based (%) 30%

• Opportunity for job sharing? No

• Need to travel/overnight stays away from home: Yes

• Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? Yes

• Amount of time PwC office based (%) 60%

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