Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and strategic leader to own and deliver our global campus engagement and university partnerships strategy. This role will drive a consistent, high-quality presence across core and emerging markets, building long-term relationships with universities, faculties, student societies and strategic partners worldwide.

Working closely with Employer Brand & Attraction, senior business leaders and regional Early Careers teams, the successful candidate will design and execute a structured annual campus engagement plan that ensures year-round, meaningful interaction beyond attraction alone. The role will shape a globally consistent campus experience through standardised, scalable and locally adaptable event materials, while ensuring alignment with talent demand, employer brand priorities and measurable ROI.

Reporting to the Global Head of Early Careers (Singapore), this position sits within the Careers & Capabilities function as part of the Global Early Careers team. The role will play a pivotal part in strengthening academic partnerships, elevating employer brand presence and delivering a data-driven, impactful campus strategy that builds a sustainable future talent pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Partnerships

• Design and deliver the global campus engagement, university and student partnership strategy aligned to Early Careers KPIs and ROI objectives.
• Build, manage and deepen long-term relationships with universities, faculties, student societies and third-party partners to ensure year-round engagement.
• Own strategic academic partnerships, integrating employer-led, real-world curricula into university programmes to build future-ready talent pipelines.
• Develop and execute a structured annual campus engagement and “keep-warm” plan focused on key campus moments.
• Monitor and analyse core performance data to evaluate partnership effectiveness, ROI and future investment priorities.
• Bring external market insights on evolving campus trends and talent pools, managing national and international sponsorships to enhance brand presence.

Business Engagement

• Develop strong relationships with senior business leaders to create a global network of campus champions.
• Coordinate business participation in events, including speaker engagement, SME involvement and content refinement.
• Secure senior leadership representation for flagship events, aligned to regional and functional priorities.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, People Capability, Lateral Recruitment, D&I and HR teams to ensure alignment of campus and early careers strategies.
• Contribute as an active member of the Global Early Careers leadership team.

Processes & Governance

• Define, track and report global campus engagement success metrics in partnership with Employer Branding.
• Lead the development of standardised global campus materials (presentations, event toolkits, hiring squad guides, scripts and playbooks) ensuring scalability and local adaptability.
• Oversee localisation processes to maintain brand consistency across markets.
• Manage partnership agreements, MOUs, sponsorship levels and related procurement processes.
• Maintain oversight of event logistics and operational delivery to ensure consistent quality and efficiency globally.

People & Leadership

• Act as the primary global interface for campus and employer brand events, guiding hiring teams in delivering high-quality activations.
• Partner closely with Global Early Careers Heads and country recruiters to execute campus and keep-warm initiatives.
• Align campus activity with digital channels and broader employer branding strategies.
• Provide effective people leadership to the Campus Engagement Coordinator.
• Deliver clear briefing and preparation guidance to business attendees and hiring squads to ensure consistent messaging and experience.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in campus engagement, early careers recruitment, employer branding, university partnerships or event management.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility with senior business leaders and external partners.
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute strategic engagement plans across multiple geographies.
• Experience managing budgets, sponsorships and partnership investments.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience tracking ROI and performance metrics.
• Ability to create scalable processes and standardised materials while enabling local market flexibility.
• Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Experience leading or mentoring team members is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience (Human Resources, Business, Marketing or related discipline preferred).
• Relevant experience in Early Careers, Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, Partnerships or Campus Recruitment within a global organisation.

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.