Future Talent Partner (Interns / Placements)

The People Directorate is here to shape the Bank's people strategy, provide information, help and advice to colleagues and line managers to thrive in their roles, and to deliver important people services across the Bank. The directorate is made up of five teams: Culture, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Employee Relations; People Operations; Talent Acquisition and Development, and Reward. Our work helps the Bank to attract, identify, develop, nurture, retain and motivate the people we need to fulfil our mission. This is an exciting new opportunity to join our friendly People Directorate team at the beginning of a transformation programme to build a modern and professional service as part of the Bank's Central Services programme - CS 2025. Talent Acquisition and Development (TAD) The Talent Acquisition and Development (TAD) Division is responsible for managing the full employee journey and supporting our Employee Value Proposition (EVP). It is comprised of teams responsible for workforce planning, experienced hire and future talent acquisition, future talent programmes, learning & development, performance, talent management and engagement. The talent acquisition and development strategy aims to attract, select, identify, develop, engage, retain and enable people to achieve their potential to meet the Bank's mission now and in the future - with a particular focus on future skills, building diversity and enabling talent development and learning for all. Future Talent This role sits within the Future Talent Team, made up of 7 FT Partners, each specialising in a different programme and led by the Head of Future Talent. The team are supported by a Future Talent Support Team. The Future Talent team are a key team in the Talent, Acquisition and Development (TAD) division. We specialise in the recruitment and development of all the Bank's Future Talent programmes, which includes Graduates, Apprentices, Interns (incl. Black Future Leaders), Industrial Placements, PhD's and Career Returners., We are recruiting for a Future Talent Partner to look after the end to end recruitment and development process for our Internship, Industrial Placement and Black Future Leaders Sponsorship Programmes. This role provides an opportunity to work closely with the cohorts and hiring areas, with opportunities to input into the programme development and recruitment process. Reporting in to the Head of Future Talent, this role will work alongside the Future Talent Partners, but will have ownership of their own recruitment processes and development programmes. The role will include:

• Management of the full recruitment process for the Internship, Industrial Placement and Black Future Leaders Sponsorship Programmes, across all business areas in the Bank, including running Assessment Centres (supported by the Future Talent Administrators)
• Management of the development programmes for the above cohorts to ensure a positive experience whilst at the Bank, and to allow transition for strong performers on to further Graduate and Intern roles
• Working closely with the BEEM recruitment allies on the Black Future Leaders programme and taking into account the Court review findings in order to set up the successful candidates for success with regards to both the recruitment and development
• Management of the returner process for the successful Interns and Industrial Placements to return on further Internships or as a Graduate
• Key point of contact for their cohorts and line managers
• Partnering with the Graduate leads on the attraction and marketing campaigns, including campus activity. Liaising with careers services at universities and representing the Bank at campus events
• Providing relevant MI to the Head of Future Talent and relevant stakeholders, and tracking spend against the relevant budgets
• Contributing to and delivering on the recruitment strategy for the target group based on identifying business requirements
• Working towards the Bank's D&I targets, including identifying new ways to target candidate groups
• Running Insight Days and other attraction events over the summer.
  
  Experience in Future Talent recruitment and development.
• Evidence of owning processes/projects and drawing on resources to deliver.
• Team focussed, willing to support others' delivery.
• Knowledge of the external Future Talent/student recruitment market.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
Desirable requirements
• Experience of inputting into staff development/training programmes.
• Good understanding of the development programmes offered to Future Talent cohorts across the Bank.
• Understanding of the Bank of England's D&I targets and how Future Talent recruitment and development interacts with these.
  
  employees in the recruitment process where they're needed. For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders. Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the 'Candidate Personal Information' under the 'Disability Confident Scheme' section of the application. Salary and Benefits Information We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate. This role offers a salary as follows:London: circa £46,330 - £53,000 Leeds: circa £41,730 - £48,000 In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:
• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.