Early Engagement Client Partner

3 weeks ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Early Engagement Client Partner

**Location**:
Milton Keynes, GB

**Department Name**:
Human Resources

**About Network Rail**:
Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter.
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We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

**Brief Description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Early Engagement Client Partner to support our continued growth to build a future skills pipeline of talent into the business. In this hands-on role, your challenge will be to inspire young people, particularly those from under-represented groups to ensure STEM careers is seen as a viable career choice for younger people. You will take ownership in the planning and delivery of our STEM programmes, from work experience, school education programmes, campaigns, digital offerings and events.
A significant part of the role is to engage with a variety of stakeholders internally and externally, who support the delivery of our early career programmes. This is a vital role for Network Rail to support our continued growth and will be instrumental in helping us deliver successful outcomes and to build our diverse pipeline of talent into the business.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about early careers development and has experience of delivering initiatives around early engagement or youth engagement. You should demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding, working with young people, volunteer recruitment, delivering events, education programmes and campaigns. We are looking for someone who is organised and possess a creative approach to problem solving and initiating improvements. The role will involve travel to different events and offices and will require some overnight stays

**About the role (External)**:
**Key Accountabilities**
- Develop and implement the corporate strategy and framework for early engagement and Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) to support Network Rail’s future resourcing requirements.
- Liaise with business functions and use operational and strategic workforce planning knowledge and market insights to anticipate future capability demands and to shape entry points for future school, college and university leavers.
- Create and manage a framework of external partnership programmes (e.g. through University Technical Colleges) to support Network Rails’ requirements for future new entrant talent pipelines.
- Create and maintain an internal network of all new entrants, STEM ambassadors and early engagement volunteers to share resources and ideas to create a consistent message to be delivered to young people.
- Manage and execute high level early engagement and youth engagement marketing activity through a range of social and digital channels and events to build reach and engagement with future talent, education providers and parents/carers.
- Engage and build the capability and tools available to internal stakeholders in order to integrate new and existing partnership programmes into business as usual activity.
- Provide guidance and best practice to internal stakeholders on marketing activities including internal and external engagement workshops, insight days, events and other engagement tools.
- Continuously improve partnership programmes through regular reviews with key stakeholders internally and externally.
- Build and manage reporting frameworks to evaluate and continuously improve the return on investment of early engagement and youth engagement activity.
- Establish frameworks and work in partnership with key third parties and external stakeholders, to share best practice and promote Network Rail as an employer of choice.

**Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications**

**Essential**
- Knowledge of early engagement, Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) interventions, the target audience and stakeholders
- Experience of implementing best practice resourcing solutions to drive a value added service.
- Proven ability to identify and develop effective working partnerships and gain buy in from external partners.
- Proven experience of working with business areas to identify, develop and implement appropriate resourcing solutions to meet their talent requirements.
- Evidence of transitioning new projects into business as usual.
- Experience of building engagement and capability with internal stakeholders.
- Experience of working collaboratively across a resourcing environment with a good working knowledge of resourcing policies, processes and systems.
- Experience of successful promotional resourcing activity including leading on events, communicatio



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