Early Talent Partner

• Ensure Sky’s graduate recruitment targets are met, in line with diversity and inclusion targets 
• Satisfaction of graduate cohorts and stakeholders throughout the campaign  
• Knowledge and best practice sharing with GTI 

Outcomes

• Manage client relationships with stakeholders, early talent partners and engagement leads onsite to ensure the successful delivery of the campaign  
• Work with stakeholders to collate hiring targets, review job descriptions and pull hiring needs into an annual project plan pre go live 
• Advise on early careers best practice and deliver comprehensive End of Campaign reports to review the years progress and implement improvements for the future. 

• Manage recruitment pipeline and provide up to date and accurate reporting on a weekly basis  
• Develop and deliver engagement strategies for keep warm activities with candidates 
• Support the marketing, event and social media strategy to attract a pipeline of qualified candidates for each role 
• Deliver training to hiring managers including assessor training, unconscious bias training and training on working with young people 
• Provide shortlists for assessment centres and work with stakeholders to identify invitees 
• Arrange and run assessment events virtually and in person, including wash up facilitation 
• Manage candidate offer and rejection process, providing feedback, supporting from offer to start date including contracts and onboarding  
• Deliver recruitment events/presentations, inductions and external speaker sessions 

• Manage the end to end graduate programme, looking at pastoral care, rotation mapping, ad hoc support and successful roll off into the business positions 
• Support design and roll out of graduate programme processes and development activity 
• Support with key events on programme such as Welcome Days, Graduation, Midpoint, Induction etc 

Person Specification

• Demonstrable experience of the early careers sector 
• Proven experience in managing high volume graduate and internship campaigns  
• Able to juggle and maintain focus on multiple programmes, cohorts, suppliers and start dates 
• Able to adapt personal style to build trust and influence with stakeholders 
• Able to support graduate and internship hires through development programmes, providing high levels of pastoral care 

• Early careers experience, volume recruitment end to end 
• Pastoral care, working with young people 
• In scheme management and care 
• Strong people skills and excellent Stakeholder management 
• Assessment centre facilitation 
• Passion for media 

Other Information

• Permanent role 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday 9.00 – 5.30pm
• 3 month probationary period