Early Careers Advisor / Senior Advisor

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The role

We are excited to announce a new opportunity for a proactive and enthusiastic Early Careers Advisor (or Senior Advisor, depending on experience) to support our legal business. This role is pivotal in attracting, recruiting, and developing early careers across our offices, delivering operational aspects of our talent programmes, and contributing to strategic projects.

Key responsibilities include:

Attraction

• Collaborate with the Early Careers Manager, diversity and inclusion advisor, and digital team to craft and implement our online marketing strategy for emerging talent recruitment.

• Enhance our social media presence, ensuring engaging content to attract diverse talent.

• Organise and manage logistics for both virtual and in-person recruitment events, representing Gateley's values and professionalism.

• Participate in attraction events such as law fairs, university presentations, and insight evenings.

• Foster relationships with key stakeholders at schools, universities, and training providers.

Selection

• Lead on the recruitment processes for all graduate and apprentice vacancies within our legal business.

• Assist in sourcing internal assessors and coordinating summer vacation placements.

• Maintain relationships with external providers for applicant tracking and assessment systems.

• Ensure a top-tier candidate experience with a focus on diversity and inclusion.

• Review and refine selection tools and processes, providing constructive feedback to candidates.

Development

• Manage the onboarding process for graduates and apprentices, offering pastoral care and support in their development.

• Build strong relationships with emerging talent to understand and meet their development needs.

• Support the Early Careers Manager with qualification processes and other initiatives.

General

• Monitor and report on key performance indicators, regulatory updates, and retention trends.

• Engage with future talent through regular communications and social media.

• Develop and maintain standard documents and policies related to early careers.

• Suggest ideas to improve our candidate and stakeholder experience, as well as operational efficiencies and gains, as well as support the development of the Early Careers Administration team.

• Educate supervisors and team leaders on the early careers strategy.

The team

The recruitment team at Gateley Plc is responsible for attracting and hiring top talent to support the company's growth and success, ensuring that the Group attracts the best talent, builds a strong talent pipeline, and maintains the company's employer brand and reputation throughout the recruitment process.

The team is currently 14 in size, covering all areas of the business at all levels. Led by the Head of Recruitment, it is an exciting time for the team as the business continues to grow and evolve, providing opportunity for not only recruitment delivery but also a variety of projects and process improvement.

The person

• Have prior experience in early careers recruitment within the legal sector.

• Show a keen interest in diversity, inclusion, and social mobility.

• Are professional, personable, and have excellent communication skills.

• Can build influential relationships with stakeholders and external partners.

• Are agile, detail-oriented, and capable of managing competing requests.

• Are self-motivated with a proactive approach and strong IT skills.

About You

About Us

The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.