Early Careers Development Senior Advisor

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.