Academy Coordinator

Role : Academy Coordinator/Talent & Development Specialist - AVP

Location : London

Duration : 6 months PAYE contract

Overall purpose of the role

The primary goal of the Academy Coordinator / Academy Talent Sourcing (AVP) is to coordinate Academy intakes to ensure a steady flow of internally up-skilled hires aligned to training capacity. Operating at the Assistant Vice President level, the successful candidate will advise and influence decision-making, take responsibility for operational effectiveness, and embody the Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship) and Mindset (Empower, Challenge, and Drive).

Key Skills

• Intake Coordination & Capacity Planning: Expertise in coordinating academy intakes from planning to confirmed start dates, while planning cohorts to capacity.

• Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Ability to align diverse stakeholders, challenge constructively, and convince others to achieve outcomes and timely decisions.

• Senior-Ready Communication: Proven ability to produce crisp updates and confidently communicate complex or sensitive information to senior audiences.

• Analytical Problem-Solving: Skill in engaging with complex data from multiple sources to spot risks early, prioritize effectively, and creatively solve problems.

• Leadership: Ability to lead complex tasks or collaborative assignments, demonstrating the LEAD behaviors (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop) to guide team members or cross-functional methodologies.

• Risk & Control Management: Strong focus on mitigating risk, maintaining audit trails, and strengthening process controls.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end coordination of Advisor Academy intakes, including milestones, dependencies, and handoffs.

• Liaise with Academy, training, and business leads to agree on intake volumes and timings, proactively resolving clashes and reprioritizing when necessary.

• Produce pipeline and intake Management Information (MI) to surface risks, provide options, and deliver recommendations that support business decisions.

• Ensure the readiness of candidates entering and exiting programmes by managing readiness gates, onboarding actions, and tracking issues to full resolution.

• Collaborate closely with other business divisions, consulting on complex issues and providing advice to People Leaders to resolve escalated matters.

• Identify ways to improve operational trackers, develop new policies or procedures, and continuously improve ways of working

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays vision and goals.

Hybrid Working

Barclays is currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Barclays is flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. Barclays also has a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there’s discounts at heaps of high street shops, restaurants and entertainment - from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants.