Early Careers Manager

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Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland John Sisk & Son Ltd Full time

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Overview
Reporting to the Head of Learning, Leadership and Inclusion, the role holder takes responsibility for the management of Sisk's Early Careers programmes. Covering Graduate, apprentice, and student activity, the role focuses on the attraction, recruitment, engagement and retention of this key pipeline of talent into Sisk.

John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the management and smooth running of all Early Careers' streams at Sisk (Graduates, Apprentices, Students – placements and interns, Traineeships).
  • Overseeing the cyclical activities around attraction, recruitment, onboarding, development and offboarding for respective streams.
  • Oversee and manage continuous improvement of existing programme processes that can include but is not limited to:
    • Attraction and marketing strategies
    • Induction
    • Workshop development schedule
    • Relevant policies related to Early Careers population
    • Offboarding
  • Development and implementation of professional chartership forums to support Early Careers participants.
  • Act upon feedback from Early Careers population and internal stakeholders to improve programmes.
  • Design / review / evolve Early Careers processes to ensure these are clear, fit for purpose and are communicated to relevant stakeholders where necessary.
  • Maintain strong partnerships with internal communities including Early Careers participants, Mentors, Line Managers, HR, Senior Decision Makers, Steering Groups and other support functions.
  • Build, maintain and review external partnerships such as external accreditations, universities, colleges, programme providers.
  • Oversee Graduate rotations process.
  • Assessment and understanding of the incumbent Early Careers population, managing performance issues and stretch for high performers.
  • Take part and support wider HR initiatives.
  • Produce regular reports from the HR database for circulation within the HR team and the wider business as appropriate.
  • Attendance at external forums to keep knowledge current in Early Careers space.
  • Deliver and upskill sessions for Line Manager and Mentor communities.
  • Update Early Careers Dashboards for delivery at regional construction boards and HR Leadership forums.
  • Collaborate with the L&D Team in Sisk's Training Academy.

Experience

  • Strong inter-personal skills with an engaging, inquisitive attitude.
  • Team management / leadership interest (& experience).
  • Role model the Sisk Company values of Care, Integrity and Excellence.
  • Diplomacy in challenging the status-quo where decisions / initiatives are not serving the business.
  • Comfortable in delivering / facilitating small and large group learning interventions (in hybrid environments).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Resilient.
  • Excellent relationship builder and influencer.
  • Keeps a strategic outlook yet develops mechanisms to understand colleagues' operational reality.
  • Ability to adopt a growth mindset and continuous improvement mindset.
  • Flexibility to travel across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.
  • A proven track record of exhibiting an ability to plan, communicate and implement initiatives.

Qualifications

  • Experience of Managing early career recruitment and development cycles.
  • Relevant CIPD or HR Related Qualification [Essential].
  • Skilled at all Microsoft tools; Word, PowerPoint & Excel in particular.
  • Professional member of relevant body (EMCC, CIPD, IITD, ICF) [Essential].

Additional Information

  • Competitive Salary.
  • Company Car or Car Allowance.
  • 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more).
  • Employer pension.
  • Competitive mileage rate.
  • Travel expenses.
  • Flexible and remote working.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Professional and Educational development.

Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people.

Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.

The full job specification is available on request.

At Sisk we are committed to attracting and hiring diverse talent into our organisation. We know the confidence gap and imposter phenomenon can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates. We also know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't feel they meet all the criteria. Give your transferable skills the chance to tell the full story. It's not all about your technical expertise. Don't hold back, we'd love to hear from you.

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