Early Careers Assistant Director Team Lead - Pacific

Location: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver

 

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

Early Careers Recruiter - Assistant Director, Early Careers Team Lead

 

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

Everything we do for our clients comes down to having the right mix of business and technical knowledge and experience for every occasion. Our colleagues across our business look to us to identify the most promising talent that possess those skills.  As an Early Careers Recruiter - Assistant Director, you’ll be right at the heart of that goal.  Directly engaging with colleagues, external influencers and candidates from a diverse array of backgrounds.

 

The opportunity 

As an Early Careers Team Lead (Assistant Director), you’ll own Early Careers recruiting responsibilities across specific markets/regions, service lines, schools, events and programs. You’ll have supervision responsibilities within a team including coaching, mentoring, performance management and support. You’ll be part of a collaborative team with high visibility to leadership and the opportunity to network with a wide array of stakeholders and influencers. You’ll be leading efforts that bring future leaders into the firm, so our reputation for excellence and innovation will be in your hands.

 

Your key responsibilities 

You’ll take on a wide range of responsibilities from owning headcount, facilitating and attending Early Careers recruiting events, managing programs around early-ID initiatives, and providing coaching and training for your team. You’ll work closely with business and recruiting leaders to execute assigned recruiting strategies. You can expect, but will not be limited to executing the following responsibilities:

 

• Ensure that the strategic objectives of Early Careers leadership align with the daily activities and goals of each team member, oversee operations and provide guidance to meet established goals and KPIs
• Implement overarching strategies at the team level, making tactical adjustments to address specific challenges and opportunities, serving as an extended point of contact for stakeholders

• Act as a mentor and coach to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development while addressing real-time feedback and submitting regular performance evaluations through SuccessFactors
• Oversee the daily operations of recruiters and recruiting coordinators, including scheduling, event coverage, and serving as the first point of contact for personnel matters such as onboarding, training, performance, role/workload shifts, leave notifications, vacation scheduling, employee relations, and resignation processing
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert, including monitoring external trends, for the profile/competency/universities for which you oversee, providing insights to inform the business through strategic conversations 

• Elevate significant strategy conversations, requests for change in team support or approach to recruiting, and/or difficult situations to Early Careers Leadership team
• Oversee budgeting responsibilities for your designated universities, cities, and/or sub-service line ensuring optimal utilization of resources (team members, and/or recruiting spend); assist Early Careers budget management with reforecasting and elevating potential overages/surpluses
• Manage hiring production (requisitions, candidates). This hiring production will represent a small percentage of overall responsibilities. 

 

Skills and attributes for success 

You’ll be managing a diverse array of talent projects, headcount, events and people so strong organizational skills and attention to detail are key. You’ll have the ability to build and nurture long term relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You’ll need to be creative and innovative in developing sourcing strategies that attract top talent.

 

To qualify for the role, you must have 

• 6-8 years of related experience

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Critical thinking an