Vice President, Graduate Resourcing

About the company

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the largest bank in the UAE and one of the world's largest and safest financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive range of personal and private banking services, including credit cards, Islamic banking, investments, loans, and mortgages. Our commitment to excellence and innovation drives us to provide top-tier financial solutions to our clients.

Life at FAB Working at FAB means being part of a team of talented and passionate individuals with a shared vision to support the ambitions of our stakeholders to "Grow Stronger." We embrace the needs of our customers across the globe with a sense of responsibility and confidence driven by extensive expertise that can only be delivered by an ambitious world-class organization.

Our values At FAB, we place our customers at the core of our activities, live our values each day in every way, celebrate achievements, and empower each other to deliver leading solutions. We have structured plans for the recruitment and career progression of Emirati talent to enable them to make a mark in the financial and banking sector both regionally and globally that rewards your hard work and dedication.

Your tasks

The VP, Graduate Resourcing provides strategic leadership for the bank's graduate resourcing agenda, aligned with Emiratization priorities and future workforce requirements. The 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.

• Own and lead the Graduate Resourcing strategy and operating plan, ensuring alignment with Emiratization priorities, business workforce requirements, and the bank'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 bank'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 bank.
• 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 bank'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 bank'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

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.

What we offer

FAB offers unique career choices, a chance to innovate, craft solutions for the future, and express yourself in a performance-based culture that will unleash the best in you. Whether you are an experienced professional or just starting your career, FAB provides a range of learning and development initiatives to support all employees through training and skill development.