Talent Associate - Dublin (12 Months FTC)

Contract: Fixed Term 12 Months contract, Full Time

Working hours:

• Full Time (40 hrs per week) flexible hours considered
• Standard working hours are 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (with 1 hour unpaid lunch break)
• We offer flexibility to employees to balance their commitments, including medical appointments, parental or care giving responsibilities, and personal goals
  

Salary: €34,798 per annum

Reports to:  Head of Talent, Ireland

Location:  Hybrid - Dublin office (Charlemont Street, Dublin 2) must be an Irish resident with full right to work in Ireland

Closing Date: Tuesday 3 June at 10:00am

ABOUT THE ROLE

What You'll Do

Support Learners into Work

• Provide high-quality 1:1 coaching on job search, CV writing, applications, and interview preparation
• Match graduates to suitable opportunities based on their skills, goals, and inclusion needs
• Prepare learners for interviews assessing readiness and delivering developmental feedback
• Promote job opportunities through Generation's communications channels
• Track job retention and capture inspiring success stories

Deliver Career Readiness

• Support the delivery of workshops on job searching, interview skills, and working with recruiters
• Integrate career readiness into 1:1 sessions  covering CVs, job matching, and skills coaching
• Capture and report data on learner progress across technical, employability, and job-search readiness
• Collaborate with the wider team on upskilling and employability delivery

Support Employer Relationships

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for employer partners following each cohort graduation
• Organise employer feedback, case studies, and evidence for funders
• Help run employability events that connect employers directly with our learners
• Feed employer insight back into the team to shape future programme development
  

ABOUT GENERATION

Generation is a charity in Ireland with the mission to support people facing significant and multiple barriers to employment into life-changing careers they otherwise could not access.

We achieve this with a unique methodology of profession-specific skills bootcamp training, focussed on in-demand careers (specifically in the tech, healthcare and green sectors), with extensive, ongoing pastoral support and matchmaking to employer partners. 

The charity is part of a network of Generation charities launched globally in 2015, and has grown quickly to become the world’s largest demand-led employment initiative. We have placed >100,000 people into roles, working with over 4,000 employer partners to date across 16 countries and 26 professions.

Since launching in Ireland in 2020, we have trained more than 600 people. Our work focuses on supporting those from diverse groups facing barriers to desirable employment. For these learners, we have achieved an industry leading c. 70% job placement rate with learners now placed at >200 employers.

On this journey, we have implemented an education-employment initiative completely new to the Irish skilling ecosystem with sector-leading results. 

We have secured transformative corporate philanthropic funding from Microsoft, Verizon, JPMorganChase Charitable Foundation, Indeed, LinkedIn, Bank of America, Accenture, and more.  We have also built strong public sector partnerships, working with ETBS, Skillnets and SOLAS..

Day to day Generation Ireland works closely with its sister charity in the UK as a team of c.80 people.  By joining, you will become part of an organisation committed to social impact, changing the education and skills landscape, and changing people’s lives.. The work is fast-paced, exciting, and innovative. 

You can find out more about our work and impact in Ireland in our social impact report: https://ireland.generation.org/news/our-first-social-impact-report/

And you can hear more about our impact from our learners and beneficiaries themselves https://www.youtube.com/@GenerationUK-I/videos

And you can also learn more about our culture, directly from our incredible people on our website:

https://uk.generation.org/work-with-us/

Generation acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect, and promote the welfare of staff and learners and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, and government guidance and complies with best practice.  We carry out employment and right-to-work checks, and request a declaration of any criminal convictions from all staff as part of our recruitment process.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Requirements

ABOUT YOU

Are you someone who lights up when you help others succeed?
Do you believe that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not?

As a Talent Associate, you will be the vital link between Generation's bootcamp graduates and the employers who need them. Your mission: help our diverse, job-ready talent land great roles.

You'll work 1:1 with learners coaching them, preparing them for interviews, and matching them to opportunities. You'll also support our employer relationships, ensuring Generation Ireland becomes the go-to talent partner for businesses across the country.

This is a role for someone who is energised by purpose, thrives on human connection, and wants to play a real part in tackling one of the most pressing challenges of our time.

What We're Looking for

Experience

• A background in recruitment particularly experience screening and evaluating candidates (agency experience is a plus, not essential)
• Confident communicating with a broad mix of stakeholders, from jobseekers to employer clients
• A proven ability to build relationships and connect with people at all levels
• Comfortable working at pace, independently and as part of a team

Attributes

• Here to serve - You genuinely enjoy understanding people's needs and figuring out how to support them
• Passionate about social impact - you're motivated by supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Relationship builder - employers and learners are energised by your warmth and credibility
• Strong communicator - clear, thoughtful writing and excellent attention to detail
• Self-starter - you take ownership of your targets and bring ideas to make things better
• Organised - you know how to manage your time across competing priorities

What Success Looks Like

Placement target: placing Generation graduates into employment through self-sourced and Generation-sourced vacancies

Career readiness target: measurable learner progress on the skills that underpin job placement

Interview pipeline: 60% of learners securing interviews within 12 weeks of completing their bootcamp

Benefits

At Generation, we're changing the lives of many individuals, and that in itself gets us out of bed! Here are a few other benefits you'll experience working with the UK team:

• Purpose and social impact in the heart of your work
• Opportunity to make your mark - you'll have a lot of autonomy to bring the Generation blueprint to life in a way that makes sense for your region
• Opportunity to get involved with a range of activities and varied projects - we're a small team, so there are lots of opportunities to get involved in projects across the whole organisation
• We offer flexible and remote working to accommodate everyone's preferred working pattern/preferences and unique needs
• WFH set up offer of support of Euro 330 to help you make your working-from-home setup comfortable and efficient
• Professional Development is a priority for Generation and employees and you can access to up to Euro1,100 towards your learning & development per year. This support is accompanied by up to 5 days of training days/ study leave per year to enable your development activities.

A fair chance

Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you.

We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become. More than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We go further together. It’s this philosophy that drives us towards our mission. We open our doors to those who share this mindset.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates from marginalised groups. We will assess applications on a rolling basis and close this posting as soon as we have found the right candidate. We look forward to hearing from you.

Support with your application:

Here’s a recruitment support resource that explains our application process and offers tips to help you put forward your best possible application.Applicant support resource Document Oct 2025