Senior Associate - Early Careers Recruiter - UAE; Emirati National

The Opportunity

In line with EY’s commitment to supporting national talent development in the UAE, we particularly encourage applications from Emirati Nationals.

As a Campus Recruitment Consultant within EY Middle East and North Africa (MENA), you will play a pivotal role in shaping EY’s future talent pipeline. Working closely with business stakeholders, service lines, and the MENA Campus Recruitment team, you will design and deliver end-to-end campus recruitment strategies to attract, engage, and hire high-potential interns and graduates across the region.

This is a highly consultative role that combines strategy, stakeholder management, employer branding, and execution. You will act as a trusted advisor to the business, a visible ambassador of the EY brand on campus, and a key driver of early talent identification and intern-to-graduate conversion outcomes.

• Partner with business stakeholders and service lines to understand workforce needs, hiring targets, timelines, and ideal candidate profiles across assigned MENA locations.
• Design and deliver data-driven campus recruitment strategies aligned to business priorities, nationalization agendas, and regional talent market insights.
• Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for interns and graduates, including attraction, sourcing, screening, assessments, interviews, offers, and pre-joining experience.
• Lead and continuously enhance the internship program, with a strong focus on candidate experience and conversion to graduate hiring.
• Advise the business on best-in-class recruitment approaches, target universities, offer strategy, and market competitiveness.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with universities, academic faculty, career services teams, student societies, and other key campus stakeholders across MENA.
• Partner with Recruitment and Employer Branding teams to design and deliver targeted attraction, sourcing, and engagement campaigns.
• Plan and deliver campus events and initiatives such as career fairs, EY insight sessions, workshops, assessment centres, and networking events (virtual and in-person).
• Deliver engaging presentations and workshops to students, graduates, and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate online assessments, assessment centres, and interview processes, ensuring fairness, consistency, and a seamless candidate experience.
• Use recruitment data and insights to track progress against hiring targets, identify risks, and continuously improve recruitment outcomes.
• Maintain accurate and compliant candidate records within recruitment systems and contribute to ongoing process improvement initiatives.

• A consultative mindset with the ability to influence and partner confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of campus recruitment, early careers hiring, and talent market dynamics.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities across locations.
• A creative, strategic, and commercially aware approach to problem solving.
• Confidence representing EY as an employer of choice on campus and in the market.

• Have experience managing assessment centres and administering online assessment tools.
• Be comfortable handling large data sets and generating insights using Excel and MS Office.
• Have exposure to Recruitment Management Systems such as Success Factors and Yello.
• Have experience delivering end-to-end recruitment across attraction, sourcing, screening, assessment, interviewing, and offering.
• Bring experience working across multiple geographies or within a regional recruitment model.

We’re interested in recruitment professionals who combine creative thinking with disciplined execution
. You’re proactive, comfortable with autonomy, and motivated by building long-term relationships, improving processes, and creating meaningful early-career opportunities across the region.

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and…