Early Careers Development Senior Advisor (UK) (contract)

Job Title: Early Careers Development Senior Advisor

Job Location: Sunbury/Canary Wharf (Hybrid)

Contract Length: Until 30th March 2027 (Possibility of extension)

Industry: Oil and Energy, People and Culture, Talent

Working Hours: 8 per day/ 40 per week

Role Overview

Interim project support for the design and delivery of a refreshed Early Careers experience across graduate, internship and apprenticeship populations. Working across multiple workstreams and stakeholders, the role will contribute to programme re-design, policy simplification and community-building activities. The ideal candidate will bring experience designing and facilitating learning experiences, managing stakeholders and delivering Early Careers programmes within complex, talent-focused organisations (e.g. banking, consulting, professional services).

What you will do

• Support driving an RFP process to find a 3rd party to re-design our core early careers programme offer.
• Apply early careers expertise and emerging best practice to support and challenge programme design and delivery activities of our chosen provider.
• Contribute to the review and simplification of Early Careers policies, processes and ways of working.
• Support the redesign and roll out of initiatives that strengthen community, inclusion, networking and engagement across Early Careers populations.
• Design and facilitate learning events, workshops and engagement activities.
• Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external providers to ensure high-quality programme delivery.
• Support delivery of project milestones, governance activities and implementation plans across the programme offering squad.

What you will have

• Strong project management skills and attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high volume environment
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong Microsoft Office suite experience (Excel, Work, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.

Essential Experience

• Experience designing and facilitating learning, development and engagement interventions.
• Experience in Early Careers best practice, talent development and participant experience.
• Experience using data, insights and participant feedback to drive improvements

Desirable Experience

• Ideally, experience delivering Early Careers programmes within banking, financial services, consulting or professional services environments.
• Ideally learning development experience
• Ideally supplier management experience, working with external learning providers and programme vendors
• Ideally experience supporting projects and programme transformations, organisational change or process improvement initiatives.
• Ideally, experience working across global or multinational organisations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.