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 international law 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.
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.
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.
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.
We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're 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-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.
At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.
We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.
