Early Careers Resourcing Manager

In a nutshell

This is your chance to shape the future of talent at PKF Francis Clark. As Early Careers Resourcing Manager, you’ll attract, engage and assess the next generation through inclusive campaigns, standout assessment centres and strong education partnerships. A role combining strategy, creativity and real-world impact, you’ll manage high‑volume recruitment cycles, collaborate across departments, and use data to drive smarter decisions. You’ll also manage and support a team member, contribute to strategic projects, and ensure our processes are fair, compliant and future‑focused.

Because this role is highly visible and relationship‑driven, you’ll regularly travel to schools, colleges, universities and our offices across the region representing the firm, strengthening partnerships and delivering in‑person events.

What you'll be doing day to day

• Leading end‑to‑end recruitment programmes for early talent, from attraction to onboarding
• Coaching and supporting the Early Careers Recruitment Coordinator
• Managing outreach campaigns and employer branding initiatives in collaboration with our marketing team
• Building and maintaining relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Contributing to strategic projects including early talent pipeline development and inclusion initiatives
• Ensuring compliance with employment legislation and mitigating reputational risk
• Ongoing review of fair and inclusive assessment processes using strengths‑based methodologies
• Using recruitment data and feedback to drive continuous improvement

About you

• Strong expertise in early careers recruitment, including strengths‑based assessment and inclusive hiring practices
• Experience managing cyclical campaigns and delivering high‑quality candidate experiences
• Skilled in building trusted partnerships with schools, colleges, universities and internal stakeholders
• Confident using data and feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Able to lead with empathy and clarity, supporting and developing others
• Understand how recruitment connects to broader business goals and workforce planning
• Champion inclusion, fairness and transparency in everything you do
• Thrive in a fast‑paced environment and bring energy, creativity and focus to your work
• Comfortable with frequent travel to education partners and firm offices as part of building relationships and delivering outreach activity
• Hold a full, clean driving licence and have access to a car insured for business use

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisers in South West England, PKF Francis Clark offers a breadth of opportunities to develop your career in the way that’s right for you. 

Established in 1919, we’ve grown to a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro. This means we’re big enough to do challenging work for exciting clients, but small enough to maintain our friendly and supportive culture. 

We work hard to ensure you can belong, be yourself and be brilliant as part of a forward-thinking team. This includes a flexible approach to hybrid working. And our focus on wellbeing and learning and development has been recognised nationally. 

For the past three years, PKF Francis Clark has been certified as a Great Place to Work and ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces. In 2025, we climbed four places to 20 out of 100 large organisations on this prestigious list. 

We’re also in the UK’s top 10 Best Workplaces for Women (6 out of 100 large organisations), as well as being ranked among the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (35 out of 100), Best Workplaces for Development (24 out of 100) and Best Workplaces in Consulting and Professional Services. 

All these lists are compiled by workplace culture experts Great Place to Work. Our rankings are a direct result of feedback from our people in a confidential, independent annual survey. 

The success rates of our trainees mean we’re also ranked 33rd in The Sunday Times Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2025. 

While we’re proudly independent, we collaborate with colleagues around the world to enable our clients to succeed. PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of this international network provides opportunities to connect with like-minded accountants and business advisers in 150 countries. 

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.

Additional information 

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