Your role Allens' award winning Early Careers team is looking for a Graduate Recruitment Consultant to join our Sydney team on a 12-month parental leave contract! You'll take responsibility for hiring our future talent - particularly our clerks and graduates. You will work in a collaborative environment to attract talent and help high-performing students through our recruitment process to start their careers with us.

As an Early Careers Consultant you will:

• Engage your stakeholders (both internal and external) to attract, engage, select and onboard new talent to Allens.
• Act as a brand ambassador of Allens externally - including organising and presenting with confidence at external events e.g. Universities, Careers Fairs and hosting onsite events at Allens.
• Work with others across the Firm, including direct contact with Partners, senior lawyers and our events teams to organise engaging functions and programs for students.
• Design our market-leading engagement programs like Dive In, which provides an insight into the world of commercial law to high-performing students.
• Design, project manage, organise and lead our Clerk and Graduate programs and recruitment campaigns.
• Identify and proactively manage emerging talent. This is a full time, 12 month parental leave contract role and must be based in Sydney.

Hybrid working (60% in the office) is how we work however flexibility matters at Allens, so if you are looking for flexibility in your work, we would be happy to discuss what arrangements would work best for you.

About you You will have:

• Experience leading and designing Early Careers initiatives and running an end to end clerkship recruitment program (events, screening, interviewing, calibration, offers), preferably in a professional services environment.
• Strong collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience in working across multiple teams.
• A passion for creating positive career experiences, candidate management, brand ambassadorship, and engaging with a range of people.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work proactively with very senior stakeholders internally and at universities.
• An interest in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Problem solving skills and a willingness to take ownership.
• A desire and ability to grow as a recruitment and HR professional.

Your development In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations.

Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks Our benefits include:

• Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.
• Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families and regular wellbeing sessions with our in-house consulting Psychologist.
• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.
• Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.