Senior People Assistant (Early Talent)

At DAC Beachcroft, our Early Talent team plays a key role in attracting, developing, and supporting future talent across the firm. We are looking for a proactive and highly organised Senior People Assistant to join the team and support the delivery of our trainee and apprentice programmes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, coordinating complex programmes, building strong stakeholder relationships, and working autonomously to deliver activity across multiple priorities. Working closely with the Early Talent Lead and two Early Talent Advisors, you'll coordinate activity across the full Early Talent lifecycle, from attraction and recruitment through to onboarding, development, placement planning, and qualification. You'll be comfortable managing multiple priorities, building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and ensuring activity is delivered smoothly and effectively across multiple programmes, locations, and cohorts. This is a Bristol-based hybrid role. While most of your time will be based in our Bristol office and working remotely, occasional travel to other DAC Beachcroft offices and events across the UK will be required. Why join us? This is an excellent opportunity for someone with existing coordination experience to broaden their exposure across attraction, recruitment, programme delivery and talent development within a leading professional services firm. You’ll join a collaborative and supportive Early Talent team with responsibility for shaping the experience of our future talent, while developing your own skills and expertise within Early Talent. Key Responsibilities You’ll play a central role in coordinating the day-to-day delivery of our Early Talent activity, ensuring candidates, trainees and apprentices receive a professional, consistent and high-quality experience. Key responsibilities include: Coordinate Early Talent activity across the full lifecycle, including attraction, recruitment, onboarding, development, placement planning and qualification. Plan and coordinate recruitment and attraction activity, including assessment days, vacation schemes, law fairs, open days, employer branding initiatives and local attraction plans, working closely with Early Talent Ambassadors, Location Heads and other stakeholders. Act as a key point of contact for candidates, trainees and apprentices, ensuring a professional, consistent and high-quality experience throughout their programme journey. Maintain oversight of trainee and apprentice cohorts, ensuring programme and regulatory requirements are met, key deadlines and milestones are tracked, and issues are identified and escalated where appropriate. Build effective working relationships with partners, people managers, training providers and colleagues across the wider People team, including acting as an escalation point for more complex Early Talent queries referred from the People Support Team. Design, implement and continuously improve administrative processes, programme administration frameworks, file management structures and ways of working that support consistent, efficient and auditable programme delivery. Support the delivery of Early Talent and wider People projects, maintaining accurate records, reporting and programme data, and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise You'll have experience coordinating complex activities, programmes or projects and be comfortable managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines simultaneously within a fast-paced environment. You’ll bring: Experience coordinating complex activities, programmes or projects involving multiple stakeholders, priorities and deadlines. The ability to manage competing demands, work autonomously and maintain oversight of multiple workstreams simultaneously. Strong organisational skills, with the ability to plan, prioritise and deliver activity to a consistently high standard. Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, particularly when managing data, records, programme activity and regulatory requirements. Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to work effectively with candidates, colleagues and stakeholders at all levels. Sound judgement and the ability to identify, escalate and help resolve issues in a timely and effective manner. Experience coordinating activity across multiple stakeholders, teams, locations or programmes. A proactive approach to improving processes, systems and ways of working, with the confidence to identify and implement improvements where appropriate. A professional, customer-focused approach and a commitment to delivering a high-quality experience. Confidence using Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Experience working in a professional services, legal or other regulated environment would be advantageous but is not essential. Additional Information As a Disability Confident Scheme employer, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage (including the application, assessment or interview process), please contact [email protected] in confidence with the vacancy reference in the subject line, and we’ll be happy to help.