Trainee Recruitment & Development Officer

Our client, a leading international law firm, is looking for a Graduate Recruitment & Development Officer to join their Graduate Recruitment and Development team. 

 The role is part time (working 3 days a week) fixed term (to cover maternity leave).

In particular the role will include:

Spring, Summer and International Placement Schemes

• Responsitbility for the smooth running of these programmes with assistance from the GR intern.
• Lead point of contact both for candidates and within the business.
• Design of all schemes and overall responsibility of effective delivery and return on investment.
• Reviewing on-line application forms in conjunction with other officers.
• Advertising and marketing of the programme to ensure maximum publicity.
• Ensuring the administrative elements of the programme are delivered by them.
• Oversee the programme of training and social events.
• Overseeing the seat allocation process, with support from the GR Intern.
• Overseeing trainee mentor allocation and briefing with support from the GR Intern.
• Overseeing the feedback and debrief sessions with support from the GR Intern.
• Budget tracking.
• Produce an end of scheme report for the GRDM in a timely manner.

Recruitment Advertising

• To act as point of contact for all external contacts.
• Oversee advertising strategy for Graduate Recruitment.
• To review all new requests for advertising and make recommendations to the GRDM and Head of Recruitment.
• Co-ordinate the placement of adverts and articles within publications, liaising with Marketing Department when necessary.
• Negotiate competitive advertising rates.
• Manage the advertising spend and maintain the costings spreadsheet.
• Award submissions.

Online Media

• Liaising with the Marketing and Communications Team as appropriate to propose a strategy for online advertising and social media (to include costings).
• Implement and maintain the Firm's Graduate Recruitment social media presence.
• Ensure full and comprehensive use of online advertising opportunities.
• Monitor the success of online advertising.
• Ensure the Firm's Graduate Recruitment website is updated whenever required.
• Supervision of the GR intern to successfully implement and run the Future Trainee Facebook page.

Campus Management and Sponsorship

• In the role of Campus Lead, you’ll have overall responsibility for the campus strategy across the Firm's key target universities (overseen by the GRDM).
• Creating a formalised template for team campus plan.
• Providing guidance around content of campus plans to ensure consistency.
• Responsibility for promotional items and merchandise.
• Overall responsibility for the Brand  Ambassador programme, including and managing the ambassadors in conjunction with an external agency.
• Responsibility for the campus social media strategy.
• Managing the data collection and ROI project.
• Budget tracking and reporting.
• Responsible for campus liaison at the following target universities, to include writing, and following, a structured business plan for each university, focussing on law and non-law recruitment.
• Relationship building with key contacts at Careers Services, within student bodies and law faculties.
• Attendance at relevant marketing events, including law fairs and autumn presentations.
• Management of the budget for each university.
• Liaise with careers services to book milkround presentation dates.
• Oversee GR Intern to book and manage correspondence with venues.
• Oversee GR  Intern to coordinate event staffing.
• Oversee GR Intern to arrange transport and accommodation where required.

First Year Insight Scheme

Responsibility for the strategy/content of the First Year Insight programme supported by the GR Intern.

Trainee Development

To support trainee development processes when necessary and assist with trainee matters as required.

Other Responsibilities

• Supporting the GRDM with the Graduate Recruitment marketing campaign.
• To attend ad-hoc events and presentations, as necessary.
• Ad-hoc project work, as required.
• Oversee responses to generic Graduate Recruitment inbox (administered by GRD Co-ordinator and GR Intern).

Candidate Management

• To assist with application screening and group assessments as required.
• Responsible for screening applications, reviewing video interviews and acting as a Group Assessor.

Skills and Experience Required

• Experience of a similar role - ideally within a Professional Services environment although this is not a prerequisite.
• A flexible approach to meet current and future business needs.
• A good knowledge of relevant IT systems.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to quickly understand the Firm’s HR policies and procedures.
• Ability to plan, schedule and arrange own activities to accomplish objectives.
• Ability to build rapport at all levels.
• Collaborative, effectively working with others to achieve team success.
• Respects and enjoys the diversity of cultural, social and academic backgrounds found in the Firm.