Student Recruitment Manager - Northern Region

PwC has an award winning Student Recruitment team. Forming part of PwC's UK Talent Acquisition function, the Student Recruitment team is responsible for implementing and delivering the firm's student recruitment strategy to identify, attract, select and engage the best possible talent from UK Universities and schools.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Northern Student Recruitment Team for a Manager. The role will involve leading on all things Student Recruitment related across the Northern region. This will include being accountable for achieving recruitment targets and advising on recruitment strategy across graduate, undergraduate and school and college programmes.

Responsibilities

• Build and sustain relationships with the Line of Service contacts, Operations, Resourcing, Professional Qualifications and Human Capital (HC) leadership to understand and inform annual student recruitment needs.

• Ensure the business recruitment needs are appropriately reflected in marketing collateral including definition and agreement of selling messages.

• Planning the strategy and running marketing activities to stimulate candidate flow.

• Organisation/attendance at attraction events including presentations, skills sessions, conversion events and other ad-hoc events.

• Ensure student recruitment targets are agreed and delivered upon.

• Oversee the relationships with regional university careers services, student clubs & societies and local schools and colleges.

• Regular management reporting to your key business stakeholders on progress against targets and agreement and coordination of corrective marketing where appropriate.

• Resolve complex problems and escalate as appropriate, whilst mitigating legal, financial and reputational risk.

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

• Securing and maintaining buy-in and commitment from key stakeholders in the business to new and existing student recruitment initiatives.

• Work in partnership with internal teams to ensure a seamless recruitment and on-boarding experience for our candidates.

• Deliver an effective keep warm strategy.

• Manage and support the development of a regional team of Recruitment Officers (Senior Associates) and placement students.

• Maintain responsibility for the onboarding process.

• Involvement in adhoc recruitment projects.

• Act as a role model to both your team and the wider Student Recruitment team.

• Ensure your team is resourced and well positioned to deliver on their roles and responsibilities.

The Individual

• Detailed understanding of student recruitment and the student recruitment market and an ability to demonstrate that your specialist knowledge is kept up to date.

• Experience of graduate, undergraduate and/or school and college leaver recruitment as a Manager, with a good knowledge of the higher education marketplace, ideally having gained experience within the professional services sector.

• Experience in leading student recruitment programmes.

• Experience in managing teams and budgets.

• Understanding of selection tools and techniques as well as experience assessing/interviewing candidates.

• Awareness and understanding of the end to end recruitment process, including the implication of key employment legislation and pre-employment vetting, application handling and regulatory issues.

• Proactive and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cohesively in a team.

• Ability to think creatively on candidate attraction techniques.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the proven ability to quickly build effective personal networks with clients and peers.

• Experience of operating in a high volume recruitment environment.

• Comfortable operating in a virtual environment.

• Ability to manage a team of direct reports and provide career coaching support.

• Strong negotiator, with the ability to influence both externally and internally.

• Ability to manage time and priorities to meet objectives and deadlines.

• Calm under pressure, you will be resilient and solutions driven, with a proven ability to identify and resolve key issues while managing risk.

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