Early Talent Recruitment Project Assistant (3 Month FTC) - Bristol

DAC Beachcroft is looking to appoint a highly organised Early Talent Recruitment Project Assistant to coordinate activity associated with the upcoming DACB Early Talent recruitment campaign for trainee solicitors and apprentices.

You will work closely with the Early Talent Lead and third party providers to advertise roles, act as a first point of contact for interested candidates, and plan and deliver shortlisting and selection activity - including virtual and face-to-face interviews and assessment days.

This is a fixed-term contract for 3 months from May 2022.

• Working with the Early Talent team and third party providers to define role specifications and advertise positions for both legal and non-legal entry level roles
• Screening candidate applications ensuring minimum criteria has been met
• Coordinating online video interviews using our ATS (TribePad/Talent on View) – inviting candidates to complete interviews and coordinating all associated interview review activity
• Tracking applicant status ensuring prompt and clear communication to candidates and stakeholders regarding progress throughout the campaign
• Communicating with the wider business to plan and schedule assessment days
• Working with the Early Talent team to design assessment activities
• Briefing assessors on their role throughout the selection process
• Supporting assessment activity including welcoming candidates on the day and managing all assessment day administration / coordination
• Delivering candidate feedback

• Experience coordinating or managing HR projects including large scale recruitment campaigns / or relevant transferrable experience is essential
• A high level of computer literacy including use of Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Excellent organisational skills and high levels of attention to detail
• Great communication skills, the ability to influence and engage colleagues and key stakeholders
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and as part of a team
• Enjoys working with a consultative and collaborative style and when sharing new ideas or new ways of working, they will make suggestions and take their colleagues with them on the journey
• Passionate about the importance of nurturing an continuous improvement culture and a role model of the behaviours that foster high levels of engagement
• The ability to work with and understand bespoke systems quickly

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual’ rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com