Outreach and Early Talent Manager

Job summary

Companies House is an executive agency of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). We maintain the public register of companies for the UK and provide corporate transparency, making the public register available online, free of charge, allowing individuals and businesses to make effective decisions about engaging with a company.

As a Outreach and Early Talent Manager you will be reporting to the Head of Outreach & Innovation, is key in shaping a diverse, skilled workforce to meet our organisation's needs. You'll play a crucial role in future-proofing strategies, aligning with our data and technology vision, and supporting our overall workforce strategy. You'll stay ahead of industry trends, attract top talent, and collaborate across business functions to deliver a cohesive outreach programme.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

Please note - Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

Job description

Our Outreach and Early Talent Manager will have the opportunity to:

• Work with the Head of Outreach and senior stakeholders, to deliver the agreed outreach strategy and plans for Companies House, and have oversight of sub-strategies/plans for areas of the business to ensure a targeted approach.
• Plan, build and run early talent pipelines into business-critical areas, such as apprenticeship, graduate and career changer programmes.
• Monitor impact and success metrics in each area, and ensure they are reported on to inform the overall effectiveness and analyse data effectively to identify areas of low participation and inform the overall outreach strategy.
• Identify new opportunities in line with our strategy; developing relationships with key partners.
• Lead on large scale plans and independently implement outreach activities (e.g., fairs, events, networking opportunities).
• Independently lead meetings with executive level stakeholders to gain support for campaigns and events.
• Manage the co-ordination with local businesses, community leaders, and other organisations to plan special events and programs that support the organisation’s mission – working closely with our comms teams; advising on online presence and blogs to achieve the outreach strategy. Industrial trends and partner / candidate management.
• Manage existing partner relationships to ensure the provision of high-quality engagement, delegating as required depending on the best fit for the organisation.
• Take the lead in the collaboration for new engagement strategies with recruitment and communication teams.
• Take charge of monitoring industry trends and current events to identify opportunities for collaboration.

Person specification

As a Outreach and Early Talent Manager We are looking for the following:

• Proven experience leading in outreach, community engagement, or a related field.
• Strong skills in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and event management.
• Experience in leading the monitoring and reporting on impact and success metrics.
• Experience in creating early talent programmes within a large organisation.
• Demonstrated success in stakeholder mapping and engagement.
• Experience leading event planning and coordination.
• Experience of Office 365, including Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Excel.
• Experience of budget management.
• Experience in monitoring industry trends.
• Experience of working in, or with, education, learning & development or recruitment.
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,744, Companies House contributes £13,541 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.

Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.

We celebrate diversity...

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at application stage, or if you'd like to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk.

Read our 'Applying under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS)' guide to find out how to successfully complete an application under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS).

Where will you be working?

You will be aligned to our Cardiff office, where you will be expected to attend on a regular basis. We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work which provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities. Your manager will agree regular patterns of attendance with you, however you may be required to make yourself available to attend the office more frequently when required to meet business needs.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

In your application form we’d like you to:

1. Tell us about your employment history, including key responsibilities and achievements.
2. We’d like you to write a personal statement of 1000 words. We'd encourage you to use the full word count and to make it clear as you're giving us examples and evidence of the different elements of the essential minimum criteria.
3. We will be sifting looking through your employment history and personal statement for evidence of the essential minimum criteria - as this is what we're assessing at sift stage - which is:

Please note: we would like you to use 250 words paragraphs per criteria:

• Proven experience leading in outreach, community engagement, or a related field.
• Strong skills in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and event management.
• Experience in leading the monitoring and reporting on impact and success metrics.
• Experience in creating early talent programmes within a large organisation.

Companies House uses a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you. We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours and experience listed in the advert.

We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as your name and age) from your personal statement.

What will the process look like?

• We’ll carry out a sift of applications. We may raise the score required at sift stage to progress to interview if we receive a high number of applications.
• At sift we may choose to take through the highest performing candidates to the next stage. If, after the final stage is completed and roles are unfilled, we will proceed to invite lower scoring candidates to interview.
• Successful candidates at sift will be invited to a virtual interview.
• There will be an activity as part of the interview - This will be assessing your outreach and early talent management skills. You'll be asked to create an Early Talent Strategy Proposal. This will be delivered as a 10 minute presentation which you'll be asked to prepare in advance. More details will be shared with candidates invited to interview.
• The lead criteria to distinguish between tied candidates will be: Making Effective Decisions.
• A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
• If after interview you are not found appointable at the advertised grade you may be offered the lower grade role if you are considered to meet the skills, experience and behaviours for the lower level. The benchmark for appointing to the lower grade is set at the start of each campaign. All offers will be made in merit order.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.

Key dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)

• Closing date: 8th February 2026
• Sifting: w/c 9th February 2026
• Interviews: w/c 23rd February 2026

Sponsorship

Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Companies House holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship, your application may be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Ieuan Pewtner
• Email : ipewtner1@companieshouse.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk

Further information

We welcome applications in Welsh / Rydym yn croesawi ceisiadau yn y Gymraeg. Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission .

info@csc.gov.uk

Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ