Early Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job Overview

You will be accountable for creating, executing, and managing key elements of our early talent strategy, notably marketing, and positioning our brand as Employer of Choice in the UK Early Talent market.

Who you will work with

You will report to the Early Talent Acquisition Manager

Internally, you will work with the Early Talent Acquisition Manager, the wider Early Talent Acquisition team, the Early Talent Development team, our Global Employer Brand and Careers Marketing Manager as well as our Brand, Communications and Marketing, and PR teams.   

Externally, you will work with our creative agency, media suppliers, journalists, film companies and influencers.

What you will be responsible for

You will be responsible for innovating, advising, and executing a best in class end to end attraction campaign.  You will manage external suppliers; creating, reviewing, and signing off on content.

What you will do

You will be accountable for:

• Full project management of Early Talent marketing campaigns from first ideation and development, through planning and delivery to final execution and post-performance assessment.

• Working closely with internal and external stakeholders to brief and build campaigns, seeking to increase overall brand awareness as employer of choice for students considering a career in law.

• Ensuring that we achieve growth in the quality of our application numbers by promoting our events and programmes in a targeted and compelling way, across appropriate channels, whilst delivering an application pool that reflects the quality and diversity expected by the firm.

• Coordinating the creation of engaging video, audio, and editorial content for our channels with support from the global recruitment and social media teams.

• Working closely with the Early Talent team to plan, implement, manage, and analyse all key event marketing campaigns - across website, social, email, and digital channels.

• Working with the global social media team to coordinate social media marketing campaigns to drive synergies between paid and organic channels and deliver best-in-class creative execution.

• Ensuring the relevant tracking across various digital platforms, to allow ROI tracking and measurement of all digital marketing spend.

• Providing weekly and monthly reports and forecasts as required and monitor the overall performance of campaigns to optimise best practice.
• Managing and maintaining the firm's brand image across all paid media, working with external agencies to adhere to Brand guidelines for both copy and visual content.

• Developing all Early Talent award submissions.

• Understanding the direct competitive environment from an early talent content perspective and apply analysis and insights to gain competitive advantage.

• Staying abreast of market trends and innovative, emerging digital tools and platforms, sharing insights across the team, with a strong focus on gen Z.

Relationships:

• Providing day-to-day management of our external agency partners – across all channels – with close management of weekly action points, meeting agendas and budget management.

• Representing the Early Talent team within Global Brand Communications and Marketing meetings and recommending opportunities which will help enhance the firm brand.

• Ensuring all activities fully support the wider firm brand proposition. Understanding of wider brand purpose and how Early Talent feed into this is essential.

• Developing the relationship with our micro and macro influencers.

Operational:

• During peak periods of activity in the early talent cycle, playing an active part in the team and assisting with key Early Talent workstreams such as attending and running events, screening applicants, fielding candidate queries, supporting campus activity, and assisting at assessment days. 

• Escalating issues as appropriate.

• Monitoring and reporting on financial expenditure relating to your projects and ensure that the spend remains in budget and is in line with relevant policies.

• Producing and managing all marketing related statistical analysis (with the support of third parties) and disseminating to key stakeholders, including but not limited to; applicant source, ROI on advertising, post engagement, for example. 

• Regularly reporting on progress of projects to the Early Talent Acquisition Manager.

Your career experience so far

Skills

• You will be exceptionally organised, and you will have the ability to manage multiple projects effectively and efficiently, ensuring all deadlines are met.

• You will have an analytical mindset with strong commercial acumen.

• You will be a self-starter and a quick learner who uses their initiative and influencing skills to manage up, down and across the organisation.

• You will have an impeccable eye for detail in written work, creative artwork, and campaign collateral.

• You will have flexible and effective communication skills with proven experience of building and managing relationships with internal stakeholders.

Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in campaign and project management.

• Demonstrable experience of working at high volume, fast pace and delivering several campaigns at any one time.

• Copywriting and experience in campaign creation and delivery across multiple platforms.

• Proven experience of creative input and pushing boundaries.

• Strong reporting experience; including analysing and deciphering campaign data and wider insights.

• Experience in determining and optimising return on investment from spend. 

• Proven experience in managing external agencies and suppliers.

• Experience in providing solutions to often complex issues.

Beneficial:

• Experience of the full lifecycle of early talent recruitment.

• Experience across social (paid and organic), website, CRM, SEO, and email delivery platforms.

How we will support you

From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Hybrid Working

This role follows our 'balanced' hybrid working approach and as long as business needs allow, you will be supported to work in a hybrid way with the expectation of working from the office for a minimum of 50% of your time.

Equal opportunities statement

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.

Find out more about our inclusive culture here.

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