Job Specifications
Role: Talent & Partnerships Consultant
Salary: £36,000
Location: Remote/Manchester - 1 day per week in the office
Office Location: Bloc, 17 Marble St, Manchester M2 3AW
Role Overview
This role involves working across two exciting UK brands, engaging with clients, candidates, and internal teams to support Counter’s talent acquisition, partnership growth, and Northcoders’ graduate employment initiatives. You will play a key part in managing recruitment processes, and fostering strong professional relationships across multiple stakeholders.
The role requires 1x per week travel to the office in Manchester (typically Tuesdays) although flexible working is in place.
Key Responsibilities
Counter – Talent Engagement and Recruitment
Engage with clients to understand their technical and interpersonal needs to hire Counter teams for specific projects.
Proactively identify and attract Counter Consultants and Tech Leads through multiple channels, including writing job adverts, networking, and headhunting.
Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from identifying potential candidates and conducting first-stage screening interviews to supporting later interview stages and offer management, ensuring a streamlined, positive and professional candidate experience.
Support the onboarding process for successful candidates, collaborating closely with HR and Finance teams.
Work with internal Counter teams to promote positive external engagement and maintain strong client relationships.
Build and maintain relationships with alumni networks, including Northcoders graduates and tech returner communities.
Utilize recruitment tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Jobsite, and Pinpoint to identify and manage talent.
Contribute to the wider Counter strategy of a growing Tech consultancy.
Counter – Engagement and Partnerships
Identify and introduce new business development opportunities to the Client Growth Lead.
Support business development calls and networking initiatives.
Represent Counter at local events and industry engagements to strengthen brand visibility.
Track and manage the business development pipeline and related opportunities.
Northcoders – Partnerships
Advertise external roles for Software and Data Engineering graduates using HubSpot CRM and internal job platforms.
Engage with companies seeking to hire Northcoders graduates, understanding both their technical and professional requirements.
Support the candidate shortlisting and matching process, ensuring alignment with client requirements.
Engage with potential clients to explore business-to-business sales opportunities for privately funded training programmes.
Engage with established clients to support local funding bids and partnership initiatives.
Collaborate with the internal Careers Team to provide industry insights, mentorship, and career support to graduates transitioning from bootcamp to employment.
Document and record all external offers to maintain accurate data tracking and reporting.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
The successful candidate will be a proactive and versatile team player, motivated by connecting exceptional talent with exciting opportunities. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment and bring creativity, professionalism, and strong interpersonal skills to everything you do.
Experienced in Talent acquisition or recruitment, managing the full lifecycle of recruitment from sourcing and screening to offer and onboarding.
Strong stakeholder and client facing experience, understanding needs and managing expectations.
Experience using recruitment and CRM/ATS tools such as Linkedin recruiter, indeed, Pinpoint, Hubspot.
Excellent interpersonal communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
Understanding of Tech roles or Tech recruitment.
About Counter
Counter, a consultancy brand under the Northcoders Group, adopts a model where we help clients attract, onboard, upskill and integrate talent into their businesses, in order to give the team a seamless start to long and successful careers there.
Counter teams are formed for our clients by deploying a Counter Tech Lead to work within the client’s organisation in order to hire appropriate team members from the Northcoders and/or Tech Returners network, and then to work in collaboration with them directly on live clients projects. Providing support, extra training and all the guidance to fast-track the individuals’ journey within that organisation.
Read more at https://counter.partners