Talent Associate - Dublin (12 Months FTC)

Contract: Fixed Term 12 Months contract, Full Time

Working hours:

• Full Time (40 hrs per week) flexible hours considered
• Standard working hours are 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (with 1 hour unpaid lunch break)
• We offer flexibility to employees to balance their commitments, including medical appointments, parental or caring responsibilities, and personal goals

Salary: €34,798 per annum

Reports to: Head of Talent, Ireland

Location: Hybrid - Dublin office (Charlemont Street, Dublin 2) must be an Irish resident with full right to work in Ireland

Closing Date: Tuesday 3 June at 10:00am

ABOUT THE ROLE

What You'll Do

Support Learners into Work

• Provide high-quality 1:1 coaching on job search, CV writing, applications, and interview preparation
• Match graduates to suitable opportunities based on their skills, goals, and inclusion needs
• Prepare learners for interviews assessing readiness and delivering developmental feedback
• Promote job opportunities through Generation's communications channels
• Track job retention and capture inspiring success stories

Deliver Career Readiness

• Support the delivery of workshops on job searching, interview skills, and working with recruiters
• Integrate career readiness into 1:1 sessions covering CVs, job matching, and skills coaching
• Capture and report data on learner progress across technical, employability, and job-search readiness
• Collaborate with the wider team on upskilling and employability delivery

Support Employer Relationships

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for employer partners following each cohort graduation
• Organise employer feedback, case studies, and evidence for funders
• Help run employability events that connect employers directly with our learners
• Feed employer insight back into the team to shape future programme development

What We're Looking For

Experience

• A background in recruitment particularly experience screening and evaluating candidates (agency experience is a plus, not essential)
• Confident communicating with a broad mix of stakeholders, from jobseekers to employer clients
• A proven ability to build relationships and connect with people at all levels
• Comfortable working at pace, independently and as part of a team

Attributes

• Here to serve - You genuinely enjoy understanding people's needs and figuring out how to support them
• Passionate about social impact - you're motivated by supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Relationship builder - employers and learners are energized by your warmth and credibility
• Strong communicator - clear, thoughtful writing and excellent attention to detail
• Self starter - you take ownership of your targets and bring ideas to make things better
• Organised - you know how to manage your time across competing priorities

What Success Looks Like

Placement target: placing Generation graduates into employment through self sourced and Generation sourced vacancies

Career readiness target: measurable learner progress on the skills that underpin job placement

Interview pipeline: 60% of learners securing interviews within 12 weeks of completing their bootcamp

Benefits

• Purpose and social impact in the heart of your work
• Opportunity to make your mark - you'll have a lot of autonomy to bring the Generation blueprint to life in a way that makes sense for your region
• Opportunity to get involved with a range of activities and varied projects - we're a small team, so there are lots of opportunities to get involved in projects across the whole organisation
• We offer flexible and remote working to accommodate everyone's preferred working pattern/preferences and unique needs
• WFH set up offer of support of Euro 330 to help you make your working from home setup comfortable and efficient
• Professional Development is a priority for Generation and employees and you can access to up to Euro 1,100 towards your learning & development per year. This support is accompanied by up to 5 days of training days / study leave per year to enable your development activities.

A fair chance

Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you.

We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become. More than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We go further together. It's this philosophy that drives us towards our mission. We open our doors to those who share this mindset.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates from marginalised groups. We will assess applications on a rolling basis and close this posting as soon as we have found the right candidate. We look forward to hearing from you.