Early Careers Talent Assistant

**Early Careers Talent Assistant**

**Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?**

**Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on, entrepreneurial, business building experience?**

**Do you want to have the opportunity to support the growth of our ventures through the management and execution of our early career talent programmes?**

If so, we would love to hear from you

**ABOUT US**

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. Headquartered in London from our flagship White City Scale Space campus, we have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 25 years. Blenheim Chalcot is responsible for building some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world - with significant operations in India and the US, as well as emerging operations in Europe and Southeast Asia.

Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries being disrupted by digital including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. Our portfolio has been conceived and launched by us and employ over 4,000 employees. Our assets under management stand at more than £1.8bn and total portfolio sales is over £500 million.

Our team, Venture Builder Services (VBS), exists to support our ventures to be successful quickly, sustainably and with access to the best practice tools, solutions, and expertise. We provide a range of services to help new business get off the ground, including technology, growth (marketing and sales), talent, HR, finance, legal and tax.

**IMPACT BEYOND PROFIT**

15% of our partnerships and ventures are charities. These include the British Asian Trust, BabyZone and Onside Youth Zones. In the same way that we support our ventures, our Partners provide direct hands-on support to these charities by being active board members and offering expert advice.

**OUR BEHAVIOURS**
- Honesty and integrity - trustworthy
- Resilience - keeps going when the going gets tough, remains optimistic in the face of challenges, open to feedback and willingness to change and experiment
- Team work - is collaborative and supportive, elevating and developing others to deliver results
- Innovation - restless to improve, challenges how to make things better
- Deliver results - keeps promises, drives to achieve, commitment to high quality work
- People awareness - collaborative and supportive, respectful
- Commercial awareness - looks for best value solutions for the business, understand costs / revenues, spends money wisely

**THE ROLE**

The BC Graduate Programme is growing and as a result, we are looking for a Junior Talent Executive to join our team and focus on driving early-careers recruitment. Reporting into the Early Careers Manager, the role will be instrumental in helping run the attraction, selection, and onboarding process of high-potential early careers talent onto the BC Graduate Programme.

The role is designed to be an integral part of Blenheim Chalcot's central function with progression opportunities within the team and/or our portfolio companies.

**Key responsibilities**
- Build strong relationships with the portfolio businesses to understand hiring needs for early talent.
- Attend university career's fairs and assist in building strong relationships with universities and student societies to foster brand awareness and generate excitement about the BC Graduate Programme.
- Facilitate the administration for all stages of the recruitment process, including liaising with key stakeholders, and updating people systems.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset to continuously improve the processes and activities.
- Support in the organisation of BC talent networking and L&D sessions for and across the portfolio of businesses.

**Specific duties**

Depending on the project, you will need to be comfortable doing the following:

- Plan and eventually lead graduate assessment days, both in-person and virtual.
- Act as a 'super-user' for out ATS system, Greenhouse, ensuring it is kept up to date and that the team are following best practice.
- Work closely with our BC India colleagues on administrative and operational tasks.
- Work in a highly entrepreneurial environment, focusing on execution and ensuring plans come to fruition.

**ABOUT YOU**
- An ambitious and driven individual with experience in Sales or Recruitment
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent life experience.
- Experience using recruitment systems such as LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse (or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.
- Due to the nature of our businesses, a passion and insight into digital would be ideal.
- You're a problem solver - you take ownership and won't settle until the problem is resolved.
- You're resilient and love to use any learnings to improve a process next time round.
- You thrive from working in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable with ambiguity.
- You're willing to get stuck in