Early Careers Administrator

Location - Winchester (with regular travel to our London office and potentially some travel to our Edinburgh office)

Hybrid working - minimum of 2 days per week in the office

Salary - £28,000 to £30,000 DOE plus benefits (please see the bottom of the advert for a summary of benefits)

LCP is a tech-enabled consultancy known for our market leading advice in pensions, investment and insurance, and we strive to help create a financially better future for our society. Our love of data, technology and posing solutions to the difficult questions of today, has taken us into newer areas. We now have a reputation for excellence in energy transition, health analytics and sport analytics. Powered by bright and passionate people with a relentless sense of curiosity, our cutting-edge technology and expert analysis means we can help clients find clarity from complexity, in order to tackle problems and embrace opportunities. 

What's the role?

Reporting to the Early Careers Recruiter and Early Careers Partner, this is a newly created role to join the Early Careers team. Our Early Careers offering at LCP continues to evolve as the business diversifies and grows, and we are looking for an Administrator to help coordinate our recruitment opportunities for roles in our London, Winchester, and Edinburgh offices. 

What will you be doing?

This is a broad and varied role with a wide array of tasks to include those set out below:

• Administrative support for the recruitment of early career opportunities; predominately our graduate and intern programmes
• Supporting multiple business areas with their early career opportunities in our London, Winchester, and Edinburgh offices
• Dealing with the administration to support our talent pipeline through numerous channel to include:
  • 3rd party advertising
  • Supporting with the creation of content for LCP’s social media (Instagram and LinkedIn) and sending any content to relevant third parties
  • Booking, diarising, and managing travel arrangements for careers fairs and other relevant external recruitment events
  • Supporting with the organisation of LCP events to showcase LCP’s opportunities, e.g. insight days – including assisting in preparation of materials
  • Maintaining the accuracy and availability of LCP’s online and printed materials
  • Working with the team to update materials.
• Supporting the Early Careers Assistant to update our third-party providers with the opening and closing of roles and sending across any advertisements
• Supporting with any administration to aid the team in delivering the recruitment strategy
• Coordination of end-to-end early careers assessment process, including:
  • Supporting the Early Careers team in the annual review and ongoing development of the early careers’ recruitment processes
  • Assisting the Early Careers team in launching early careers recruitment processes each year using our applicant tracking system
  • Pulling reports from the applicant tracking system to ensure candidates are progressed and communicated with appropriately
  • Responding to queries from applicants regarding LCP, recruitment processes or the applicant tracking system
  • Communicating with departments across the business to ensure their bespoke early careers recruitment needs are met
  • Organise the logistics for assessment centres and ensuring materials are printed / prepared for the day
  • Attendance at assessment days to ensure smooth operation and collect departmental feedback on candidates (This will involve frequent travel to our London office (and potentially the Edinburgh office), mainly during the active recruitment cycle typically September to March)
  • Providing feedback to successful and unsuccessful candidates following assessment
  • Drafting offer letters for assessment centres and early careers job offers for review
• Collating and updating information for graduate requirements for UK Visa and Immigration requests
• Assisting with wider firm initiatives relevant to early careers recruitment e.g., diversity lead initiatives, Women’s Talent Academy
• Undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required and which are commensurate with the level and responsibilities of the role

What skills, qualities and experience are we looking for?

• Previous experience in early careers recruitment is desirable but not required
• More importantly, we are looking for someone who is:
  • Keen to learn and able to adapt to new processes and systems quickly
  • Organised and able to multi-task across wide ranging duties and prioritise in busy periods
  • Able to work with the existing team to ensure successful management of applications, including providing cover during busy periods
  • Able to take tasks through to completion seeking approval where needed
  • Good communication skills and confident in working with others within the firm and externally
  • Proactive taking work forward
  • Competent in Microsoft products including word, PowerPoint and Excel

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you: 

• Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)
• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family: 

• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health: 

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth: 

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others: 

• Volunteering opportunities

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.

Please note that this role is unlikely to meet the minimum criteria as set out by the UK Government for visa sponsorship.

Recruitment agencies 

LCP operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment agencies which is reviewed annually. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies who are not part of our current PSL. LCP only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place, and the agency has been instructed by a member of our recruitment team to supply CVs via the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for a legitimate, open vacancy.  If this process is not adhered to, LCP reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and have discussions with them without paying any agency fees. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any employee or Partner at LCP.