Location
London (Flexible base location)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary package

About the Role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an Early Careers Development Partner to join our growing team on a 12 months fixed term contract. The Early Careers Development Partner plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering an outstanding Early Careers experience across Balfour Beatty. Combining central project ownership, business partnering and employee experience ownership, the role ensures our Early Careers graduates, apprentices and year out placement students receive a high-quality experience.

Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering strategic Early Careers projects and programmes aligned to business priorities and the Early Careers strategy.
- Designing and delivering engaging programme content in both virtual and face-to-face settings.
- Ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience for Early Careers graduates, apprentices, summer placements and Year Out placement students across assigned business areas.
- Producing and maintaining an annual delivery plan with key activities, milestones, stakeholder inputs and success measures.
- Providing workforce planning insight and recommendations to help business areas identify and plan future Early Careers requirements.
- Driving programme improvements informed by data, participant feedback, business insight and external good practice.
- Providing clear reporting on engagement, retention, progression, attendance, programme delivery and emerging risks, ensuring agreed actions are completed.

Onboarding and ongoing support responsibilities:
- Delivering a consistent onboarding experience that prepares Early Careers employees and their line managers for success.
- Acting as point of contact for line managers, providing practical guidance, resources and development to support, mentor and develop Early Careers employees.
- Maintaining a buddy approach to connect new starters with the wider Early Careers community.
- Ensuring Early Careers queries and escalations are resolved or signposted promptly, using recurring themes to improve guidance and processes.

Programme engagement and events:
- Designing and delivering engaging programme activities including welcome calls, inductions, bite-sized learning, networking, programme activity and senior leader engagement.
- Contributing to the successful delivery of EC Fest and other cross-business Early Careers events.
- Delivering business-area engagement activities that strengthen connection, belonging and understanding of career opportunities across Balfour Beatty.

Process and data management:
- Maintaining accurate, timely Early Careers data for assigned business areas and resolving data issues with relevant managers or teams.
- Delivering regular dashboards and insights on retention, progression, attendance and programme participation to support decision-making and targeted intervention.
- Working with HR Shared Services to improve Early Careers processes, data quality and participant and manager experience.
- Ensuring missed training, college or programme attendance is escalated and followed through with the relevant SBU HR team and line manager.

Why work for us?
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Key benefits include:
- Smart working with flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Experience
- Delivering talent, learning or Early Careers programmes within a complex organisation.
- Strong design, delivery and facilitation skills in virtual and face-to-face settings.
- Senior stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at all levels.
- Partnering with business leaders and HR teams to deliver strategic people outcomes.
- Strong project and programme management capability, balancing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
- Using data and insight to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.
- A passion for developing future talent and creating outstanding Early Careers experiences.

About you
Proactive, collaborative and adaptable with excellent communication skills. You are passionate about talent development and thrive in a dynamic environment where you can influence and deliver impactful programmes that support career growth and business success.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or experience in talent development, HR, learning and development or related fields are desirable but not essential. A commitment to continuous learning and professional development is important.