Early Careers Specialist - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Are you deeply passionate about early career programmes, committed to nurturing the development of emerging talent? If you find genuine enthusiasm in guiding graduates and apprentices through the initial stages of their professional journeys, we are excited to present you with this opportunity.

We are currently looking for an Early Careers Specialist to join our award-winning Emerging Talent Team on a 12-month contract. In this role, you will take charge of overseeing our comprehensive Emerging Talent Programmes, including the management of solicitors' training contracts, legal apprenticeships, and business professional apprenticeships.

As the primary point of contact within the People Team, you will offer valuable guidance to our emerging talents, handle department allocations, oversee performance reviews, coordinate training initiatives, and skilfully navigate any challenges that may arise.

An exciting aspect of this role involves continuously seeking opportunities to enhance and improve the experience of our emerging talents with us. Utilising employee feedback, research, and data to inform decision-making will be a key part of this role.

To thrive in this position, we are seeking an individual with a background in Early Careers programmes, together with impeccable communication and organizational skills. The role will need you to be proactive and have a forward-thinking mindset. Our ideal candidate should excel at managing conflicting demands and possess the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organization.

For a detailed overview of your responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description.

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We were delighted to be awarded RollonFriday's “Law firm of the year 2023” and to be listed in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP who have awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

Any questions regarding the role or the interview process please contact Jenna Hazel (Resourcing Business Partner) on 0117 307 6060 or email jenna.hazel@burges-salmon.com

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. If you are interested in applying, please submit an application as soon as you can

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