Early Careers Programme Manager - Academies, Learning, Consulting, Enabling Functions, UK-Wide

Your Opportunity

Our people are our most important asset. Through an increasing use of blended learning solutions we are seeking to deliver a ground-breaking, agile solution that delivers outstanding results and exceeds their expectations.

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Your Role

As the Early Careers Programme Manager for Academies, you will lead and manage the delivery of Academies and other alternative entry points across Consulting, delivering and innovating exceptional experiences that enhance capability and performance. Our Academy strategy is closely linked with our apprenticeship (BrightStart) Programmes so this role will also contribute to and help implement both our academy and apprenticeship strategies.

Working closely with a broad range of HR and business stakeholders to align, influence and adapt the strategy with centrally led initiatives, you will collaborate with teams and engage key stakeholders across the board to promote offerings and implement performance metrics that measurably impact programme quality.

Responsibilities

• Programme management and delivery of Academies and alternative entry points across Consulting, including:
• Academy recruitment and input into attraction
• Management and onboarding of new suppliers
• Capacity building for suppliers as required
• Relationship management of internal stakeholders including Early Careers Leads and Sponsoring Partners
• Relationship management of external stakeholders, including government departments, meeting with them regularly and reporting on stakeholder requirements
• Training needs assessment
• Ownership of programme budgets
• Direct liaison with Academic bodies to conduct course review and iterative workshops
• Implement the strategy for academies in Consulting, managing the governance and employee experience of each academy in co-ordination with the relevant early careers lead and partner/director running it on a day to day basis.
• Review post-Academy onboarding, design and implement improvements
• Design and implement metrics that measure the impact and success of the Academies
• Know your clients, and act as a subject matter expert for early careers in consulting, working closely with Learning Business Partners, other HR teams and Business stakeholders to ensure design and delivery of relevant and integrated programmes for the respective cohorts.
• Support on wider Consulting Early Careers activity as required

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: Any UK Regions with occasional domestic travel

Work pattern: The role will be worked on a full-time basis. Our team members work a variety of agile working patterns. Tell us what arrangement works for you and we’ll try to accommodate

Flexible working

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

Your professional experience

• Relationship management: ability to build strong and lasting relationships both internally and externally and able to develop and manage these relationships -coordinating cross teams as appropriate
• Experience and passion in talent development and learning.
• A great communicator, with the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels in the organisation and able to present to large groups of students either in person or on webinars.
• Excellent at building networks and connections, on both regional and national levels.
• Strong experience of a base of project/programme management: ability to manage multiple complex projects and programmes; work well under pressure, with multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Experience of school leaver and/or university programmes lifecycle and knowledge of the marketplace in the UK
• Inquisitive and driven to seek out opportunities for Deloitte to improve our academy programmes to maximise the impact we have in this marketplace
• Able to work autonomously but also able to understand where matters require further approval or escalation in order to resolve
• Sound analytical skills: able to review data and spot trends, and make sound recommendations based on the data

Your service line: Enabling Functions

At Deloitte, we’re all about making an impact that matters, together. And nowhere is this more apparent than among our 2,000 strong Enabling Functions teams. With our combined specialist skills and business partnering expertise, we provide all the essential strategy, support and advice our client-facing colleagues need, right across the firm. This enables them to focus all of their efforts on delivering the best service possible to their clients. So not only will you be providing world-class support to our internal clients, you’ll be making an impact for all the hugely influential organisations Deloitte works with too. Covering all our distinct areas: Human Resources, Clients & Industries, Finance & Legal, Central Business Services, National Quality & Risk Management, Technology & Digital Services, and Real Estate, the opportunities here are vast. And what’s more, you can grow your career in whatever direction you choose. We’ll support you all the way.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

About Deloitte

Our Purpose & Strategy

To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society - defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it’s about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.

What do we do?

Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem-solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.

Beyond the UK: Deloitte North and South Europe

The UK is part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network. Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta), Ireland, the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK. Deloitte NSE brings together 2,700 partners and over 50,000 people, combining our unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region. Being part of Deloitte NSE supports our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and will create more opportunity and growth for our people.

What do we value?

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for maximum impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Being a Leader at Deloitte

Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people - both inside and outside work – and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.

We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters. We know leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, but our Leadership Charter helps all of our people understand what we’re looking for:

• We live our purpose:we act as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognising others for the impact they make
• We develop talent: we develop high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
• We drive performance:we deliver exceptional client service; maximise results and drive high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• We believe positive influence can make an impact that matters:we influence clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• We move, together, towards a strategic direction:we understand key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligning people to objectives and setting priorities and direction.

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