About the Role
The VP, Graduate Resourcing provides strategic leadership for the company’s graduate resourcing agenda, aligned with Emiratization priorities and future workforce requirements. This role leads and holds accountable the AVPs within Graduate Resourcing, sets the strategic direction for their respective portfolios, and provides executive oversight of graduate programs to ensure effective governance, stakeholder alignment, delivery, and sustainable talent outcomes.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead the Graduate Resourcing strategy and operating plan, ensuring alignment with Emiratization priorities, business workforce requirements, and the company’s broader people strategy.
- Provide strategic leadership, direction, and oversight to the AVPs within Graduate Resourcing, setting priorities, performance expectations, and clear accountabilities across their respective portfolios.
- Hold the AVPs accountable for effective delivery, ensuring alignment, consistency, and coordination across graduate attraction, assessment, selection, university engagement, candidate management, and program activities.
- Provide executive oversight of the company’s graduate programs, ensuring effective governance, delivery, stakeholder alignment, and achievement of intended program outcomes.
- Set the strategic direction for graduate attraction, assessment, selection, placement, and development, with operational execution managed through the AVPs and their teams.
- Oversee program governance, performance, risks, issues, and key milestones, and resolve or escalate material matters where required.
- Ensure graduate programs respond to future workforce requirements and support the effective placement, development, progression, and retention of UAE National graduate talent across the company.
- Partner with senior business and HR leaders to determine graduate demand, agree intake priorities, and secure appropriate roles, placements, and development opportunities for graduate cohorts.
- Build and maintain senior-level relationships with government entities, universities, educational institutions, and key external partners to strengthen the UAE National graduate talent pipeline and the company’s employer brand.
- Provide strategic oversight of Emiratization campaigns, career fairs, university engagement, and targeted attraction initiatives relevant to graduate resourcing.
- Oversee the effectiveness of candidate assessment and selection approaches in partnership with Talent Development and other relevant stakeholders.
- Review graduate resourcing and program performance through agreed metrics, dashboards, and management information, ensuring timely action on material trends, risks, and delivery gaps.
- Drive continuous improvement across Graduate Resourcing by strengthening governance, candidate experience, program effectiveness, delivery standards, and stakeholder outcomes.
- Operate within Group policies, approved governance frameworks, and the delegated authority matrix, ensuring appropriate controls and decision-making across the function.
- Any wellbeing activities involving physical activity must be aligned with the company’s health and safety responsibilities.
- Function within the framework and boundaries of Group policies as well as overall organisational and governance frameworks.
- Authorised to take decisions as per the approved authorisation matrix.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in HR or a related discipline.
- 8+ years’ relevant experience in the banking sector with at least 3 years of managerial responsibility.
- This position is reserved for UAE Nationals.
Preferred / Beneficial
- A master’s degree is an advantage.
- Professional Certification in CIPD, or a related discipline is preferred.
