Job Description
The role
This is a maternity cover contract. Ideal start date will be 11 November 2025.
You will be accountable for creating, executing, and managing key elements of our early talent strategy, notably marketing.
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 in our efforts to maintain our UK market position as Employer of Choice.
What you will be responsible for
In addition to core recruitment activities, you will be responsible for 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:
Management of our Race and Ethnicity strategy including our relationship with RARE Recruitment across all products and programmes.
Full project management of Early Talent marketing campaigns from 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 promote 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
Ensuring the relevant tracking across various digital platforms, to allow ROI tracking and measurement of all digital marketing spend.
Monitoring 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.
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.
Ensuring all activities fully support the wider firm brand proposition. Understanding of wider brand purpose and how Early Talent feed into this is essential.
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.
Qualifications
Your experience
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 project management.
Demonstrable experience of working at high volume, fast pace and delivering several projects at any one time.
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.
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.
Company Description
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.
Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.
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.
Whatever your area of expertise, you will find a range of career opportunities at Clifford Chance. And wherever you’re heading, Clifford Chance is where you can be true to your ambitions.
Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. In a world where commercial success increasingly relies on globalisation, we offer clients a truly international perspective, and we offer our people a rewarding and stimulating career.
We're proud of our approachable, friendly, and team-based way of working. Highly professional and self-assured, with an entrepreneurial streak, our people are more than happy to share their expertise and knowledge.
Human Resources management forms a key part of the firm's infrastructure, and it is an important part of the firm's global strategy to attract, motivate and retain the best quality people across the firm and to become a recognised employer of choice.
This is a chance to work in our award-winning Early Talent team. The Early Talent team has two halves, the Early Talent Acquisition Team, and the Early Talent Development team. They work together to recruit and support graduates on our Trainee programme. Clifford Chance recruits around 90 graduates a year into the trainee lawyer programme. The acquisition team manages the marketing and attraction, the selection and assessment and the offer process for graduates. The development team manages the trainee life cycle, from completion of the Post Graduate Diploma in Law, the Solicitors' Qualifying Examination, right through to qualification from the two-year training programme.
Clifford Chance has been recognised as the Employer of Choice in the legal sector for four consecutive years at the National Graduate Recruitment Awards and the Times Graduate Employer Awards. The team have also taken home awards from the Institute of Student Employers, The Lawyer Management Awards, and the Law Society Excellence Awards.
Additional Information
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.
What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment
When you join Clifford Chance, you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial, wellbeing, lifestyle, and family friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in the UK, please visit our What We Offer page on our career site.
Equal Opportunities
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.
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 here.
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