Student Recruitment Coordinator

Job description

AutoReq ID

139345BR

Job Title

Student Recruitment Coordinator

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Birmingham

Function

KPMG Business Services

Service Line

People

Service Line Information

We believe working in our People community is an exciting and challenging environment in which to develop your career. We offer a wide range of opportunities across all areas of HR, where our people are highly respected by our clients, not only in the UK, but also across our growing European integrated practice.

KPMG Overview

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

Job Description

Job Title: Student Recruitment Coordinator
Department: Student Recruitment
Role Type: Perm
Grade: E2
Location: Birmingham (travel required.)
Working hours: 9am - 5pm
Reporting to: Student Recruitment Assistant Manager

Job Purpose

This role supports the student recruitment team through effective organisation of assessment events alongside outreach and attraction activities to recruit across a range of student programmes – from work experience and apprenticeships through to graduate roles. The coordinator role plays a key part in a team that is dedicated to ensuring KPMG’s student recruitment programmes have a strong profile at target schools and universities, and its recruitment process is leading within its industry. The co-ordinator will provide an efficient, high quality, client focused service for applicants and the business alike, throughout the entire recruitment process.

Operations.

- Assist with organisation of recruitment Events, including event logistics
- Manage candidates throughout recruitment process providing an exceptional candidate experience
- Liaise with interviewers and assessors to secure availability for recruitment events
- Deal with any cancellations from candidates and assessors, as and when these occur flagging any issues to the manager for that region
- Work closely with the manager population to flag backlogs or availability issues
- Follow up with interviewers and assessors if notes are not submitted within agreed SLAs.
- Complete screening of applications
- Other related duties as required
- Manage centralised recruitment inboxes and respond to queries within SLA
- Add candidate details to offer tracking spreadsheets and report on offers accepted/declined
- Complete ‘offer forms’ for candidates following recruitment events
- Support the recruitment officer with delegated business as required and assist with any ad-hoc operational duties as needed
- Process of expenses on e-payables and dealing with candidate expense queries
- Collate reports on activity and feedback to management to aid evaluation of the regional recruitment events and any outreach activity.
- Respond to telephone enquiries ensuring that the phone is answered within SLA
Attraction and Outreach Activities

- Work with wider team to assist with organisation, promotion and delivery of internal and external events. This will include working with schools, universities, students and a variety of internal departments
- Liaise with staff event volunteers to brief prior to each event and send meeting requests and joining instructions
- Book events, venues, catering and related event administration
- Liaise and build relationship with key stakeholders such as colleagues at schools and university careers services
- Manage event distribution, invitation lists and newsletter lists
- Track stock levels and locations of marketing materials
- Assist with the implementation of an internal communications strategy to build awareness of how employees can get involved with Student Recruitment related activities
The Person

- A keen interest in student recruitment
- Ability to demonstrate empathy and a knowledge of the student recruitment market place
- Drive and commitment
- A confident presenter
- Strong IT skills including Excel, Power Point, databases and internet research
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with a variety of stakeholder
- Excellent organisation and time management skills with a keen eye for detail
- Flexibility to work within a fast paced environment
- Ability to adapt to change quickly and positively
- Forward thinking and proactive approach
- Self-motivated to work autonomously and also a good team player
Whilst this role is office based, you will be required to travel to KPMG offices and some events around the country – this will require overnight stays on an ad-hoc basis throughout the year.

Our Deal

If the chance to work with interesting clients and innovative technology wasn’t rewarding enough, we’ll motivate you in other ways too. At KPMG you can expect real responsibilities and opportunities to grow professionally.

‘Our Deal’ sets out all the different ways you’ll be rewarded at KPMG. Among other things you can benefit from honest conversations about your career as well as a range of other rewards. In all these ways and more, we have created an environment that can bring out the best in you.

Flexible Working

While some of our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, we are supportive where possible of helping you to achieve a balance between your home and work demands.

We are happy to discuss individual requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements could be of interest. Furthermore, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly so you can understand from them what our culture is like.

Applying with a Disability

KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring that you are treated fairly throughout our Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require, with your recruitment contact.

KPMG's commitment to diversity

We are proud of the value we place on individuality; we want you to bring your full self to work and truly maximise your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results for our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference. But, don't take our word for it, find out more about diversity at KPMG.

Returning to work after a break
At KPMG, we appreciate that returning to work after an extended career break can be daunting. We understand that those with experience who have taken a career break have a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer our organisation, which helps us to achieve our business goals. We will support you to refresh your skills, develop your confidence and provide a supportive network across the firm to help you best integrate into the working environment. This role welcomes applications for individuals who have been out of work for 18 months or more and who have previous relevant experience.

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