Job Description

About the job.

We’re looking for an Early Talent Advisor to join our Early Talent team on a 12 month fixed term contract at National HighwaysIn this role, you will play a key part in designing, developing and managing early talent programmes that build the critical skills our business needs, supporting the growth and long-term capability of our workforce while helping to nurture and retain future talent across the organisation.

In this role, you’ll work closely with colleagues across HR and the wider business to design and deliver impactful early talent programmes. Supporting our graduate and apprenticeship programmes, you’ll play a vital role in helping individuals grow and thrive, ensuring our early talent offering delivers for the business and for emerging professionals.

You’ll manage early talent programmes on a day-to-day basis, acting as a subject matter expert in your area while coordinating projects, working with external partners and supporting colleagues across the business. Alongside programme delivery, you’ll contribute to continuous improvement by analysing data, measuring programme effectiveness and helping to evolve our approach to early careers.

This role will be worked on a hybrid basis, with a minimum of two days per week in our Snowhill, Birmingham office.

• Design early talent solutions that are focused on attracting, retaining and developing talent across specific early talent programmes.
• Manage end to end early talent programmes on a day-to-day basis being the subject matter expert in your area.
• Work with third party suppliers on the delivery of early talent initiatives, managing suppliers to ensure delivery against KPI’s.
• Develop internal and external communications and guidance to support the early talent strategy as well as supporting employees and line managers with the early talent process.
• Ensure data integrity, keeping all data sources up to date. Identifying any issues with data, seeking to correct errors and manage reporting and designing new reports in collaboration with other areas of HR.

About you.

• Proven experience managing end to end early talent programmes such as graduates, apprenticeships, internships or work experience initiatives. Preferably for a large multi-site employer.
• Working knowledge of apprenticeship programmes and apprenticeship levy funding, including supporting the administration or coordination of levy-funded training.
• Demonstratable experience coordinating projects and working with external suppliers to deliver early talent initiatives and programmes successfully.
• Proven expertise of building excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, providing guidance and support across the business and with external partners.
• Highly organised, proactive and solutions-focused, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering an excellent learner and stakeholder experience.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Our HR directorate includes a wide range of services to support our people to be the best they can be, and to enable the organisation to achieve its goals and objectives.

We're fully committed to making National Highways a great place to work. We want an inclusive culture where our people feel informed, motivated, engaged - and always reaching for high levels of performance.

Through our People Strategy we're also building our company's resilience, making it better prepared for the future - and we're always striving to improve our day-to-day services.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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