Apprenticeships Senior Recruiter

Job Description

Role: Recruiting Specialist

Location: Newcastle

We’re looking for a Apprenticeships Senior Recruiter to join our Early Talent Recruitment team and lead attraction and hiring across our Technology Degree Apprenticeship programmes in Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester, alongside our AI Career Changer Apprenticeships in Newcastle and Manchester.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape future talent through creative sourcing strategies, strong partnerships and an outstanding candidate experience.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead end-to-end recruitment activity and deliver successful hiring outcomes across apprenticeship programmes.

You will:

• Develop attraction strategies to build diverse, high-quality apprenticeship pipelines.
• Build partnerships with schools, colleges, universities and external organisations to drive engagement and awareness.
• Deliver attraction events, presentations and networking opportunities to strengthen employer brand presence.
• Manage candidates through the full recruitment journey, delivering a positive and inclusive experience.
• Conduct high-volume interviewing and assessment activity during peak periods.
• Track recruitment performance, reporting on insights, trends and risks to support hiring decisions.
• Manage budgets and ensure accurate forecasting and tracking.
• Stay informed on market trends and identify opportunities to improve attraction and hiring outcomes.
• Contribute to wider Early Talent initiatives, process improvements and best practice.

Candidate & Stakeholder Management

You’ll work closely with hiring managers and external partners to deliver successful hiring outcomes and maintain engagement throughout the recruitment lifecycle.

You’ll also:

• Support onboarding and pre-joining activity to maintain apprentice engagement.
• Build trusted stakeholder relationships across the business.
• Deliver targeted outreach activity both virtually and in person.
• Strengthen Accenture’s employer brand and expand early talent networks.

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• Proven experience recruiting within Early Talent and Apprenticeship programmes, with strong understanding of attraction, selection and conversion strategies in competitive markets.
• Strong knowledge of the UK apprenticeship landscape, including funding rules, programme requirements and compliance.
• Experience building partnerships with schools, colleges, universities and external organisations to develop diverse, high-quality talent pipelines.
• A track record of delivering attraction and engagement activity, including events, presentations and outreach initiatives that strengthen employer brand and candidate engagement.
• Experience managing high-volume end-to-end recruitment processes, including interviewing and delivering an excellent candidate experience.
• Strong analytical capability, using recruitment data and insights to track performance, identify trends and support hiring decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A passion for creating opportunities for early career talent and driving successful apprenticeship hiring outcomes.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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