Global Early Careers Campus Recruiter

About the role

This is a builder role, not a maintainer. You will design and run OakNorth's global early careers programme - spanning internships and graduate hiring across London, New York, Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Manchester. Embedded within the wider Talent function, you'll connect early careers to experienced hiring, workforce planning, and long-term talent development. There is no finished playbook. You'll define it - building a programme that is structured, scalable, and aligned to real business demand. What success looks like (Year 1) A clear, scalable internship and graduate programme designed Internships established as the primary feeder into high-quality hires Strong, engaged hiring manager base - aligned on bar and actively participating A forward workforce plan in place, with hiring driven by real business demand Measurable quality of hire: strong conversion, retention, and early performance.

Responsibilities

• 🏗️ Programme design & delivery
• Own a two-track early careers programme: internships, Apprecnticeships, Insight week and a 1-year graduate scheme
• Define rotations, learning pathways, mentoring, and conversion frameworks
• Set clear standards and success metrics from entry through to post-programme performance
• Build internships as the primary feeder into graduate hiring
• Own the full lifecycle: Attraction → Assessment → Offer → Onboarding → Programme → Conversion → Retention
• Track performance, conversion rates, and long-term outcomes
• 🔗 Talent & business alignment
• Translate business hiring needs into structured early careers pipelines across:
• Debt Finance
• Engineering
• Product
• Finance & Legal
• Operations
• Partner with hiring managers to define what good looks like
• Build a forward-looking workforce plan based on real demand
• Continuously improve pipeline quality using data and insight
• Connect Talent, People Partners, L&D, and business leadership
• 🎓 Attraction & university strategy
• Build a focused university strategy across the UK, US, and India
• Prioritise depth over breadth in relationships
• Represent OakNorth on campus through events, partnerships, and societies
• Develop a compelling early careers narrative against banks, Big Tech, and startups
• Partner with Talent and Marketing to ensure consistent messaging
• 📋 Selection & assessment
• Design a rigorous, fair, and scalable selection process
• Assess for potential, not polish
• Implement high-signal, low-bias assessment methods
• Train hiring managers to assess consistently
• Define and track quality of hire (performance, progression, retention)
• Ensure strong outcomes beyond hiring - retention and development
• 🌍 Global coordination
• Align programme structure and standards across UK, US, and India
• Partner with local teams to adapt programmes to each market
• Coordinate hiring cycles, budgets, and reporting
• Maintain a clear global view of pipeline health
• 🤝 Stakeholder partnership
• Operate as part of the core Talent team
• Align early careers with experienced hiring and broader people strategy
• Influence hiring plans and talent investment decisions
• Provide clear, data-led insights on pipeline quality and ROI
• Priority pipelines
• You will build reliable, high-quality feeder pipelines into critical junior roles across the business, includding Debt Finance, Engineering, Product, Finance. legal and operations.
• Build a clear pathway from intern → graduate → junior role, particularly for hiring where consistency, quality, and retention are critical.
• AI & the future of work
• OakNorth is becoming an AI-native business - and how we hire should reflect that.
• Use AI tools to improve sourcing, assessment, and programme delivery
• Apply data and insight to continuously improve hiring quality
• Build modern, high-signal

Additional Information

At OakNorth, we're on a mission to empower ambitious businesses and the communities they serve. Since 2015, we've lent over $21 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers - all while driving economic growth in the markets we serve. We are looking for a Junior People Partner to join our People Team at OakNorth. This role provides hands-on support to our Senior People Partners across UK and US employee populations across all business lines. The role is well-suited to someone who is early in their HR career, keen to develop across a broad generalist remit, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will get exposure to real partnering work, employee relations, performance processes, people projects, from day one We're becoming an AI-native business in how we work, build, and grow. This means hiring high-quality interns and graduates who are energised by AI and motivated by the pace, ownership, and exposure that comes with a founder-led business. Early careers is a core pipeline into the roles that matter most at OakNorth. This role is about building that pipeline - with a clear focus on quality, retention, and long-term impact, not just hiring volume.

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