Early Careers Apprenticeship Officer

An exciting new opportunity to join our award winning Apprenticeship team at Savills. Being part of our Apprenticeship team you will have the exposure in building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and being the core guidance for all our early joiners into the business

Role overview :

The role consists of sourcing, attracting and assessing students onto our internships and apprenticeship programme. You will also be working with apprentices and their teams to ensure the apprentices achieve their apprenticeship and are fully supported throughout the process.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the programme remains competitive and market leading.

Team Overview :

Join an award winning team to work in a fast paced and high profile role. Savills is the number one company to work for in Real Estate as a graduate and apprentice, as voted for in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employer’s survey and Ratemy, Apprenticeship survey respectively. We are looking for a career focused team player who will help us manage the best, most diverse talent to match our business’ needs for the future.

Key Responsibilities :

• Attraction of apprentices - internal and external marketing of apprenticeship opportunities. This would include selling the business case to managers, driving understanding of current initiatives to staff who could be eligible to upskill via an apprenticeship, and creating a talent pool of external candidates for the roles
• Assisting with careers/school events, managing relationships with careers teams, business representatives and students
• Supporting all the work experience initiatives such as Career Ready, Savills with Schools etc. to continue forming and building relationships with schools to promote the apprenticeship scheme
• Recruitment and selection of apprentices – coordinating applications, ensuring diverse candidate pools, coordinating the screening and shortlisting of applicants, coordinating the assessment and interview process, producing and evaluating assessment materials (assessment centre, psychometric testing, RARE software, interview process etc.
• Acting as a first point of contact to both the business and applicants - offering professional advice and information
• Screening candidates for the work experience and apprentice programmes – using Team Tailor and RARE to assist with the process
• Organising and hosting the running of assessment centres – liaising with the candidates and Savills assessors, updating assessment materials, collation of scores etc.

Programme Support :

• Maintaining all apprentice spreadsheets e.g. apprentice log, training provider log and mailing lists to ensure all information is regularly updated and accurate
• Working closely with managers to ensure they are aware of their responsibility and commitment to apprentices, and remaining in contact with apprentices to ensure they are obtaining the right experience within their team i.e. organising quarterly catch ups with apprentices and managers
• First point of contact for all Learning Coaches / Apprentice Outcome Officers and ensure all apprentices are on track to complete their apprenticeship on time
• Coordination of apprenticeship enrolment and professional membership
• Supporting apprentice initiatives i.e. committees and events

Much more.

Key Skills :

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  Previous involvement in coordinating graduate or apprenticeship programmes desirable

• Previous HR experience desirable but not essential

• Previous recruitment experience desirable but not essential

• Exceptional planning and organisational skills

• Ability to manage own workload

• Exceptional interpersonal / communication skills

• Exceptional attention to detail

• Resilient, adaptable and above all, keen and enthusiastic

• Sensitivity, discretion and diplomacy

• Energetic and self-motivated

• Pro-active / takes ownership of responsibilities

• Ability to work well under tight deadlines and thrives in a fast-paced working team

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

• Willing to travel around the UK.

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