Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join Howden's award-winning Early Careers team at a pivotal stage of growth. As Programme Coordinator, you will play a key role in delivering exceptional early careers experiences while helping to build the future talent pipeline of our business.
You will provide operational and administrative support across the full Early Careers portfolio, ensuring programmes, projects and key priorities remain on track. You will coordinate the delivery of insight programmes, work experience initiatives, internships, graduate programmes and apprenticeships.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing programme logistics, calendars, milestones, meetings and deadlines to ensure a seamless experience for participants and stakeholders.
- Creating engaging and professional PowerPoint presentations, reports and stakeholder updates that communicate key insights and recommendations.
- Maintaining programme data, trackers and reporting dashboards, ensuring accuracy, consistency and timely availability of information.
- Supporting Early Careers recruitment activity, including candidate communications, interview scheduling and assessment centre preparation.
- Coordinating communications with candidates, schools, universities, community partners and internal stakeholders.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes, templates and ways of working to support programme growth and efficiency.
- Supporting the collection, analysis and reporting of programme outcomes and impact measures.
- Collaborating with colleagues across Talent, HR, DE&I and the wider business to deliver high-quality Early Careers initiatives.
Requirements:
- Strong coordination, administration and organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Advanced PowerPoint skills with the ability to quickly create high-quality, visually engaging presentations.
- Strong data management, reporting and dashboarding capability.
- Experience managing multiple projects, priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
- Confident communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A proactive and solution-focused approach with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Passion for Early Careers, social mobility and creating opportunities for young people.
What you'll bring:
- Excellent planning and project coordination skills.
- Strong analytical mindset and confidence working with data.
- Ability to translate complex information into clear and compelling presentations.
- A positive, adaptable and growth-oriented attitude.
- Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders.
- Commitment to delivering an outstanding candidate and participant experience.
In return, we offer a career that you define, with a focus on diversity and individual values.