Early Careers Recruitment Advisor

Salary: Circa £40,000 per annum depending on experience
Location: Huntingdon (with regular travel across the south of our region, to include areas Essex, Suffolk & Northampton and early starts)
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week

Important

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about attracting and supporting early careers talent and delivering engaging recruitment campaigns. Please include a cover letter outlining your motivation for applying, your experience in recruitment or event delivery, and how you demonstrate strong organisation, stakeholder management and the ability to manage competing priorities. Applications without a cover letter may not be progressed.

Make every drop of your potential count

At Anglian Water, we’re passionate about developing future talent and creating opportunities for the next generation. As an Early Careers Recruitment Advisor, you’ll play a key role in attracting, engaging and recruiting our apprentices and graduates, helping to shape the future workforce of our business.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced recruiter who enjoys building relationships, delivering engaging recruitment campaigns and creating positive candidate experiences.

About the role

Based from our Huntingdon office, you’ll support Early Careers recruitment activity across our region, including locations such as Essex, Northampton and Suffolk.

The role involves planning and delivering recruitment events, attraction campaigns and assessment centres, so flexibility is important. You’ll be comfortable with regular travel, early starts (typically arriving on site from 7.30am to set up) and occasional overnight stays in hotels as part of campaign delivery.

You’ll need to be highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and confident coordinating multiple activities at pace.

What will you be doing?

As an Early Careers Recruitment Advisor, you will be responsible for the end-to-end planning and delivery of our Early Careers recruitment activity, including apprenticeships and graduate programmes.

Working closely with Hiring Managers, Early Careers, Business Partners and a wide range of stakeholders, you will ensure a professional, inclusive and engaging experience for candidates and stakeholders throughout the attraction and recruitment process.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the delivery of a robust Early Careers recruitment strategy across the region

• Managing recruitment campaigns from attraction through to selection, ensuring activity is delivered on time and effectively

• Creating, producing and adapting recruitment materials and adverts to attract and assess suitable candidates

• Planning and coordinating attraction events, assessment centres and candidate activities, including preparation of materials, logistics and stakeholder involvement

• Managing multiple recruitment timelines and priorities, adapting plans when required to meet business needs

• Supporting candidates throughout the recruitment journey, ensuring an excellent experience from application through to onboarding

What do you need?

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Proven experience in recruitment, ideally within an internal recruitment environment

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders across the business

• Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering recruitment activity within a fast-paced environment

• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to coordinate campaigns, events and assessment centres effectively

• Experience preparing for and supporting assessment centres, ensuring a smooth and engaging experience for candidates and stakeholders

• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to manage logistics, timelines and competing demands while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience

• The ability to adapt quickly, problem-solve and deliver at short notice when priorities change

• Previous Early Careers recruitment experience would be beneficial

• Strong IT skills and confidence using recruitment systems and digital tools

• A full UK driving licence, as regular travel across the region is required

What’s in it for you?

At Anglian Water, we invest in our people. As a valued employee, you’ll benefit from:

• Private healthcare

• Generous double-match pension scheme – contribute 7% and we’ll contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%

• 24/7 Virtual GP service for you and your household

• 25 days annual leave – rising with service, plus the option to buy additional leave

• Life assurance of up to 8x salary

• Personal accident cover of up to 5x salary

• Excellent family-friendly policies, including: 26 weeks’ full pay for maternity/adoption leave; 4 weeks’ paid paternity/partner leave; Shared parental pay opportunities

• Annual bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits and a supportive working culture designed to promote wellbeing and work-life balance

Closing date: 23rd August 2026

Interviews: 1st September 2026