Graduate Recruitment and Development Coordinator

Gibson Dunn
London, United Kingdom
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates comfortable with cross-border coordination and managing graduate programmes.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with international early careers experience and a track record in graduate programme management
    — “2-3 years’ experience in early careers, preferably for an international firm or assisting with international programmes.”
  • Professionals who thrive in a role that blends recruitment, training, and internal collaboration
    — “Working closely with colleagues in both offices.”

Things to consider

  • The role involves managing graduate programmes in multiple international locations, including Hong Kong, UAE, and Madrid.
    — “Supporting the Firm’s international offices, namely Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Madrid and Brussels”
  • The position requires maintaining a detailed application tracking system and delivering consistent reporting.
    — “Maintain the application tracking systems, record keeping and wider reporting”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience managing international student recruitment or campus engagement initiatives.
    — “Build relationships with target universities and organise, deliver and attend campus and profile-raising activities”
  • Emphasise your ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage high-stakes processes.
    — “Coordinate first-stage interviews and support the second-stage assessment process”
  • Showcase your organisational skills with examples of managing multiple time zones or complex schedules.
    — “Adaptable to working with colleagues and offices across multiple time zones, prioritising accordingly”
  • Demonstrate your experience in delivering structured trainings or onboarding processes.
    — “Organise and deliver trainings and the induction schedule for incoming trainees”
  • Demonstrate your ability to manage end-to-end graduate programmes, including feedback and qualification processes.
    — “Deliver candidate feedback and support the offer process across the programmes”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • ensure excellent candidate experience
  • coordinate advertising and marketing
  • build relationships with universities
Typical background
recruitment experiencehuman resources background

Skills & requirements

Required

Candidate ExperienceUniversity RelationsRecruitment CoordinationProgram ManagementHuman Resources

Preferred

International RecruitmentLegal Compliance

About the role

Original posting from Gibson Dunn via Greenhouse

Summary:

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Based in London, the successful candidate will join a Graduate Recruitment team of six spread across London and Dubai, working closely with colleagues in both offices. The focus will be supporting  the Firm’s international offices, namely Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Madrid and Brussels, while also supporting  the development of new programmes in new offices. As a steward of the Firm’s culture and values, you will help us to attract and retain the highest calibre of students and graduates who meet the Firm’s current and future requirements.

This role reports to the Senior Manager, International Graduate Recruiting/Development.

Responsibilities include:

Ensure excellent candidate experience, from first contact through to the end of the trainee programme;

Coordinate advertising, marketing materials, merchandise and social media with the Marketing and Business Development team;

Build relationships with target universities and organise, deliver and attend campus and profile-raising activities, including law and career fairs such as the Hong Kong law fair, Prince Sultan University law fair and the NYU Abu Dhabi law fair;

Coordinate first-stage interviews and support the second-stage assessment process, including arranging interviews with the relevant business stakeholders;

Deliver candidate feedback and support the offer process across the programmes;

Maintain the application tracking systems, record keeping and wider reporting;

Organise and schedule the international programmes’ day to day, including open days, vacation schemes, the Riyadh Co-op programme and direct training contract recruitment;

Take full ownership of planning and delivering the content of the vacation schemes and summer programmes in Hong Kong, the UAE and Madrid;

Work with Human Resources and local office teams to ensure a strong onboarding experience for interns, trainees and secondees;

Liaise with universities and law schools on registration and the relevant qualification routes;

Organise and deliver trainings and the induction schedule for incoming trainees;

Conduct six week catch ups with trainees;

Coordinate the seat change and seat review process, including mid and end-of-seat appraisals, and the qualification process.

Qualifications:

Excellent written and verbal communication and strong interpersonal and team skills;

First class prioritisation and organisational skills;

Adaptable to working with colleagues and offices across multiple time zones, prioritising accordingly;

Proactive and detail-oriented

Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent;

2-3 years’ experience in early careers, preferably for an international firm or assisting with international programmes.

Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.

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For technical difficulties with our online application, please contact us at staffrecruiting@gibsondunn.com. Our recruiting support team will respond as soon as possible.

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Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities.  We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience.  The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or otherwise take part in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting-accommodations@gibsondunn.com. Please note, this is a dedicated email inbox established exclusively to assist applicants with accommodation request related to the recruitment process.  Inquiries about the status of an application or other non-accommodation matter will not receive a response.

Source: Gibson Dunn careers (Greenhouse)

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