Consulting Candidate Coordinator

Start date in July 2026 – Ends in February or April 2027 (Exact end date TBD due to business needs)

About Rare

We’re passionate about unlocking early talent. Our mission is to connect outstanding students from underrepresented backgrounds with leading universities and employers, helping them showcase their true potential.

We partner with organisations to attract, hire, and retain the very best early talent from all walks of life. At the heart of everything we do is one clear purpose: creating a level playing field and driving equal opportunities.

Our clients include some of the world’s most respected universities and employers. And the candidates we work with are among the most impressive emerging talent you’ll ever meet.

Through tailored development, expert guidance, and exclusive events, we empower candidates to shine. At the same time, we help our clients build diverse, high-performing teams that reflect the richness of society.

The Role

As a Candidate Coordinator, you will be part of the Attraction and Development team. You will do everything outlined below, and more besides. The good news is that we’ll train you to do all of this to a very high standard. The skills you acquire here will serve you for life.

Main responsibilities for working with students and graduates (our candidates):

• Be the main point of contact for the students interested in consulting - get to know them because, the more we do this, the better we can support them.
• Conducting 1-1 coaching sessions with allocated candidates, offering them CV and covering letter support, including answering queries, and encouraging accountability.
• Conducting mock interviews, case study practice, delivering online workshops, and offering support with a wide range of assessment centre tasks.
• Carrying out interviews for some of our development programmes.
• Informing students about opportunities with our clients and encouraging them to apply.
• Booking candidates in for sessions with our external expert coaches.
• Answering the phone and responding to general candidate queries.
• Dealing with requests from our clients.
• Helping with event and programme logistics.
• Attending client events and supervising candidate visits.
• Data entry and updating of our internal databases.
• Eating chocolate (people buy us chocolate when they get hired).

You will spend most of your working day in direct contact with students via email, phone calls and video calls.

Most of all, you’ll be making a difference for the better. If you join Rare, you will go to sleep at night with a full heart, and you will wake up each morning feeling excited to come to work.

About You

The key to success in this role is to be highly conscientious with high personal standards of integrity and organisation. You must also be a skilled communicator, be willing to learn and be flexible in your approach to adapt and prioritise effectively.

We are looking for someone with the ability to:

• Understand Rare’s social purpose and share our values.
• Be skilled at building relationships with candidates, clients, and other members of staff.
• Demonstrate superb and proven people skills, including the ability to build rapport with diverse students in person and over the phone.
• Demonstrate personability and patience for a very people-facing role.
• Have excellent attention to detail and organisational skills as the role is high volume and has a strong administrative element.
• Be highly conscientious and have high standards of integrity.
• Be keen to learn – you will need to understand how our business works, what our clients do, and who they want to hire.
• Be competent in the case studies predominantly used for consulting roles - you will need to get the candidates up to the level needed to succeed.
• Be flexible – the needs of the business change rapidly.
• Be commercial and focused on delivering results.
• Be tough and resilient. This is great work, and it can be intense.
• Be comfortable talking to people of any gender, ethnic or social background.
• Take feedback well.
• Provide constructive feedback to our candidates – it is our role to prepare them for the reality of work and sometimes that means having difficult conversations.

Experience and education requirements for the role:

• A university degree of at least a 2:1 in any subject. (essential)
• Excellent writing skills. (essential)
• Has an understanding of the consulting sector and has successfully secured a graduate role with a strategy consultancy. (essential)
• Work experience of almost any kind is valuable, especially if it involves customer or client-facing work. (desirable)
• Excel skills. Please state basic, intermediate or advanced. (desirable)

What we offer

At Rare, flexibility is at the core of what we do. We work in a hybrid set-up with access to an office in Farringdon. In addition to meeting regularly with your team, there is a monthly company-wide meeting to share knowledge and skills and to strengthen our working relationships.

We are a friendly group of people, here you will find some of the brightest, most passionate and warmest people you will ever meet. If you want to be inspired by the people around you, then this is the place for you!

Our current benefits package includes a pension scheme, live and on-demand online Yoga classes, Christmas Eve off and more.

If you are passionate about giving back and making an impact, we want to hear from you, whatever your background.

At Rare we are committed to equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, and we do not condone discrimination based on any of the protected characteristics. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

To be eligible to work at Rare you must hold the Right to Work in the UK, this should cover the entire contract period.

To apply

Submit your CV (2 pages max) and a brief cover letter explaining who you are, why you care about what we do, and why you think you’d be good at the job. Additionally, please include which firm you have secured a Training contract with, your availability for interviews and how long you are available to work if successful. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.