Location: London (2–3 days/week in a coworking space in Euston)

Type: Full-time

Salary: £40,000–£45,000

On-Target Earnings (OTE): £55,000–£60,000+ with commission and bonuses

🚀 About Us

DIVERSE was launched with the mission to help Black, Ethnic Minority and young people from low-income backgrounds into employment.

We’re a Careers Network & Talent Partner supporting over 10,000+ UK students, grads and young professionals with free careers education and we help exciting employers in sport, media and consumer brands like Red Bull, Warner Bros. Discovery and Tesco hire from our network.

Plus we lead the recruitment and community management of #Merky FC Football Careers, a partnership with Stormzy and adidas to help young Black professionals into employment in the football industry, working with brands like Sky Sports, VERSUS, LADbible and Manchester United.

👀 We’re Looking To Hire…

We’re now looking for a driven Emerging Talent Recruitment Manager to join our small and ambitious team. You’ll lead recruitment delivery and play a key role in growing our hiring impact and changing the lives of young people in a varied role.

🥊 Responsibilities

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll be getting up to. We are a growing business so your responsibilities could change:

☎️ Recruitment for Existing Partners

- Lead on recruitment delivery for flagship programmes like Stormzy and adidas’ #Merky FC Football Careers, placing young black professionals into roles in football.

- Help brands such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Tesco, Diageo, Red Bull and Wasserman attract and hire diverse candidates for hard-to-fill roles.

- Advise clients on how to improve role visibility, employer brand positioning, and inclusive hiring practices.

📣 Community Outreach & Events

- Lead proactive outreach to new candidates inviting them to join the DIVERSE careers network.

- Attend and present at industry events, careers fairs, and DIVERSE pop-ups to promote opportunities and attract new candidates.

- Represent DIVERSE externally and build connections that strengthen our brand and talent pipeline.

🧲 New Business

This will be a smaller part of the role initially as you get settled into the team.

- Identify and build new recruitment partnerships within our core industries: sport, media, and consumer brands.

- Own and manage relationships with new clients from initial outreach through to successful hires.

- Act as a 360° recruiter, generating business development and delivering on client recruitment services

🎓 Careers Advice & Candidate Support

Host drop-in Q&A sessions for our communities.

- Offer 1:1 advice and guidance to job seekers to help improve CVs, applications, and interview skills.

- Share insights with the team to improve our content, candidate experience, client advisory and support offerings.

🗂 Job Board Management

- Manage our job board ensuring all roles are uploaded, updated, and optimised for visibility and candidate engagement.

- Track performance of job ads and support the wider team in driving applications.

- Work with the marketing team to promote key roles across our channels.

🤩 About You

We think you’ll love this role if this sounds like you:

- Passionate about positive social impact

- 3–6 years of experience in recruitment (agency or in-house)

- Understand that startup life doesn’t always fit into a neat 9–5

- Built for a fast-paced environment and unafraid to jump into new tasks outside of the core role

- Happy to work independently in a small team

- Skilled in 360 recruitment

- Entrepreneurial mindset and ready to take ownership

- Incredibly organised with a strong attention to detail

- Confident building relationships with clients and candidates

- Eager to embrace AI to save time and increase productivity

- Ability to understand the needs of and connect well with Early Careers, Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding and DEI/HR professionals

- Ability to understand the careers challenges facing under-represented young professionals

🏝️ Key Benefits

- Uncapped commission in addition to bonuses for successful hires

- 25 days holiday

- Pension contribution 

- Hybrid working 2-3 in a coworking space in Euston

- Opportunity to make a significant impact on the UK by helping underrepresented young people get hired 

We’re unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship.