Future Talent Specialist

Join Our Team: Future Talent Specialist Opportunity

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Trust’s in‑house expert on apprenticeships, providing specialist advice on levy funding, compliance and best practice
• Deliver end‑to‑end recruitment for apprentices, graduates and student placements, ensuring inclusive, high‑quality attraction, selection and onboarding
• Manage and coordinate apprenticeship, graduate and placement programmes, ensuring a positive learner experience and strong retention
• Administer and manage the Apprenticeship Levy (circa £650,000), including forecasting, spend monitoring and maximising utilisation
• Build and maintain effective relationships with training providers, awarding bodies and external partners
• Provide ongoing support and guidance to apprentices, graduates and line managers throughout the programme lifecycle
• Produce management information and insights on future talent activity, outcomes, diversity data and levy performance
• Display the Trust’s values and behaviours at all times, ensuring diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do

Skills & Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering or supporting apprenticeship and/or graduate programmes
• Strong understanding of the Apprenticeship Levy, funding rules and compliance requirements
• Experience of end‑to‑end recruitment processes
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship‑building capability
• Experience providing mentoring or pastoral support, with awareness of safeguarding responsibilities
• Strong IT, data and reporting skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
• We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Contact & Application

• If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] . We encourage early applications as we may close the vacancy once we receive enough suitable candidates.

What We Offer

• We offer a salary of £35,000 with opportunities for progression. Enjoy a competitive pension scheme, increasing holiday entitlement, and a range of employee benefits. For a full breakdown of our benefits, check out our brochure here: EVP - 1 .
• Learn more: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us/work-for-us/our-benefits
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