Job Description

Purpose of the Role

To source, attract, and hire early career candidates.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of early careers recruitment strategies and programmes that align with the bank’s business goals, including the identification of potential candidates through various channels, including job boards, social media, professional networks, and employee referrals.
• Build and maintain early career talent needs assessment to anticipate hiring needs and maintain a talent pipeline to ensure a consistent pool of candidates.
• Development of compelling job postings and marketing materials, execution and coordination of sourcing, screening and interviewing to assess candidates, making hiring recommendations and negotiating job offers.
• Onboarding processes for new hires, including orientation sessions administration, to facilitate a smooth transition into the organisation.
• Monitoring and reporting of key recruitment metrics, such as time-to-fill, cost per hire, and source of hire, including the identification of areas for improvement and optimisation.
• Stakeholder management of hiring managers, academic institutions, sourcing firms, and professional organisations to develop a strong talent pipeline.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are:
  • L – Listen and be authentic
  • E – Energise and inspire
  • A – Align across the enterprise
  • D – Develop others
• If an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.