Early Careers Manager, Human Resources

The Early Careers team at Dentons is responsible for apprentice, intern, and graduate recruitment, alongside trainee development.

The individual will be responsible for a team of three comprising of two coordinators and a trainee development advisor.

This role will focus primarily on the attraction and selection for all our routes to qualification while also providing guidance to the trainee development advisor where necessary.

While the focus of the role is the UK and Ireland, the team is also responsible for the Middle East trainee cohort from a recruitment perspective.

Working closely with the head of resourcing and trainee partner, the role will have full accountability for the graduate recruitment lifecycle including marketing and events, selection and candidate experience, vacation schemes, diversity, and reporting.

The key objective is to ensure that Dentons is recognised as a 'Challenger' brand and preferred employer in the early careers space, and that Dentons actively engages with emerging talent and operates best practice, legal, inclusive, and ethical resourcing principles.

Attraction

• Accountability for delivery of the upcoming marketing & attraction campaign for apprentices and trainees.
• Delivery of new student recruitment campaign for Ireland, as we expand into this market.
• Overall lead on the firm wide student brand, including the website, social media, campus, and marketing collateral.
• Manage media partner relationships to promote the brand on external job boards and media platforms.
• Work with networks across schools, universities, careers services and student societies to build and maintain positive relationships and to strengthen the brand across undergraduate and school leaver markets.
• Work with the firm's creative department to develop and collate all collateral.
• Working with external provider, manage the Brand Ambassador programme.
• Attend and deliver on campus, virtual and in-house workshops and events.
• Support the Early Careers Coordinators on social media strategy and delivery.

Selection

• Responsible for the monitoring and review of the apprentice and trainee selection processes, providing an exemplary candidate experience and supporting the team throughout entire process.
• Attend assessment centres, conduct interviews, facilitate wash-up sessions, make offers, manage acceptance and provide feedback throughout the recruitment process.
• Ensure the team and all providers are following best practice concerning inclusive recruitment.
• Lead internal training on assessment processes and best practice.
• Management of third-party relationships including assessment providers and external assessors.
• Plan and host the firm's spring and summer vacations schemes.

Early Careers Development

• Lead on the future trainee and future apprentice strategy and support.
• Provide pastoral care for future trainees.
• Alongside the Early Careers Development Advisor, plan for and implement trainee and apprentice on-boarding.
• Support the Early Careers Development Advisor and Coordinators with Trainee and Apprentice development where needed, including seat moves, secondments, pastoral care and qualification.

Other

• Monitor the Early Careers budget alongside Head of Resourcing.
• Regularly liaise with the Trainee Partner and maintain trusted key stakeholder relationships across the region to gain stakeholder engagement with early careers strategy.
• Responsible for management and development of Early Careers team.
• Collaborate with the Responsible Business team and external providers to ensure the firm meets its inclusion commitments.
• Respond to work experience requests, and management of our virtual work experience program.
• Ownership for reporting on Early Careers data.
• Play an ongoing role in the Firms’ response to the SQE, including acting as a member of the internal SQE working group.
• Collaborate with the internal PR team on press releases and award entries.

Dentons is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network. Dentons' polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com.

Diversity & Inclusion

Essential to our success as a global law firm is our ability to attract and retain the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We want a work environment where everyone can reach their potential and we have an inclusive culture which respects individual differences.

We undertake and support a number of internal and external initiatives aimed at increasing diversity within the profession and we encourage all our partners and staff to get involved. We welcome you to learn more about diversity and inclusion at Dentons.

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and support those in the workplace who have a disability. Any disability disclosure will be dealt with confidentially and sensitively and if you want to speak directly to a member of our team, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com.

Important update regarding job applications:

As part of program of continued global investment in our people, the Firm is switching to a new job application system on February 20th, 2023.

This role may be reposted on February 20th. If so, it will include a note of this reference number: AH1918 to allow you to avoid duplicate applications.

If you have any questions you can read more here https://www.dentons.com/en/careers/careers-in-the-united-kingdom or contact the team at recruitment.matters@dentons.com if you require any assistance.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

If you are interested in applying for this position, we welcome direct applications via our careers page, but if you have any questions beforehand please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com – Enquiries only please, applications will not be accepted via email.

Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the business, nor will we accept any associated terms of business.