JOB SUMMARY

Own and deliver the full early careers hiring agenda within the country, while acting as the strategic link between business demand, attraction strategy, campus engagement, and program delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1.    Early Careers attraction approach & market alignment

•    Partner with Business and Branding team to develop and execute country-specific early careers attraction approach aligned to business hiring needs and market dynamics. 
•    Partner closely with campus engagement, employer branding and marketing teams to shape targeted outreach approaches. 
•    Provide expert counsel on talent market trends, university strategies, and candidate engagement approaches. 
•    Ensure attraction timelines, campaigns, and on-ground activities are delivered effectively and on schedule.

2.    Stakeholder partnership & relationship management 

•    Build and sustain trusted partnerships with hiring managers, business leaders, HR stakeholders and external partners. 
•    Provide regular updates, insights and guidance to stakeholders on hiring progress, market conditions and recruitment strategy. 
•    Strengthen collaboration across internal teams to ensure seamless delivery. 

3.    Candidate experience excellence

•    Champion a high-quality, consistent candidate experience across attraction, assessment, selection and onboarding.
•    Work in close partnership with business and operations teams to ensure smooth transitions from offer to joiner. 
•    Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the early careers candidate journey. 

4.    Programmatic and on-ground delivery 

•    Execute key elements of the early careers program experience locally, including campus and attraction events, networking sessions, induction, engagement activities and program milestones.
•    Support the delivery of broader early careers initiatives and development touchpoints within the country.
•    Ensure consistent execution aligned to global early careers standards while tailored to local market needs.

Risk Management

•    Ensure effective identification, management, monitoring and reporting of risks is undertaken in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) in a way that is consistent with the authority and responsibilities of the role.
•    Effective understanding of operational risks and compliance with all applicable internal policies, external laws and regulation.

Governance

•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
•    Track the effectiveness of the team’s governance, oversight and controls and, if necessary, propose/implement changes in these areas.
•    Use data and reporting to track success measures and impact of early careers programmes ensuring appropriate oversight of strategic and operational effectiveness metrics that are used to ensure a high performing culture and vision for early careers talent. 
•    Engage with relevant audit report findings and ensure feedback is acted upon.
•    Ensure that all approved HR investments and capital / project expenditure are managed within the agreed enterprise project management standards. 

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

•    Early Careers programme sponsors and business leaders
•    Colleagues participating in Early Careers recruitment, programmes and in talent pools
•    Global and Country HRBPs
•    Partners in HR Centre of Expertise
•    Risk / compliance and control partners

Qualification

•    Education - Bachelor’s degree or higher

Training     
•    Proven experience in programme or curriculum design, ideally in Early Careers or Development & Development in the global market.
•    Training & Development 
•    Familiarity with digital development tools, platforms, and content creation is a plus.
•    Proven experience in programme or curriculum design, ideally in Early Careers or Development & Development in the global market.
•    Familiarity with digital development tools, platforms, and content creation is a plus.    
•    Languages - English

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Development pathway architecture and curriculum design
•    Skills framework mapping and capability progression modelling
•    End-to-end development journey design and integration
•    Business capability translation into development outcomes
•    Experiential development and applied development design
•    Programme Management

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.