Bahrain Internship Programme

Do you want to change the way people think about Banking, and be at the heart of that change? Do you want to join an organisation committed to their values and purpose? Are you looking for accelerated growth that will fully empower you to shape your potential?

Our SC Bahrain Internship Programme could be just what you\xe2\x80\x99re looking for.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll experience an incredible and varied global learning experience, which will include talent assignments, technical and professional skills training, future skills development workshops, targeted online learning, inspiring thought leadership speaker events, be involved in real-life business problem solving and more.

We\xe2\x80\x99ll provide you with the tools, training, network, and support to help you become a change agent, and drive innovation and creativity across the bank.

Programme preview

New joiner onboarding \xe2\x80\x93 to help orientate you into the bank, your new team and your role. We want to make sure you feel supported in your first few weeks with us. You will receive an induction during your first week with the bank and a soft skill training midway through the programme.

Learn and grow \xe2\x80\x93 with access to tools and learning experiences to help you realise your full potential. While the experience will vary depending on the team or role you join, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be exposed to all sorts of ways to start your career.

Be part of the family \xe2\x80\x93 not only will you meet other local Interns on our programmes, you\xe2\x80\x99ll also get to meet people from across the bank, build your professional network and understand the Standard Chartered difference.

About the Programme

Our 6-Month Internship Programme allows you to work directly on real world problems to hone your skills, create lasting relationships and learn about your strengths. The programme is intended to create a pipeline to our Future Talent in Bahrain for an opportunity into our Local Management Program other full-time roles.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll experience

• A 6-Month structured Internship program that takes place from March to August 2023

• 1 week country induction, formal welcome to the Bank, technical and soft skills training
• 2 rotations (3 months each) within the assigned Business Functions (Consumer, Private and Business Banking (CPBB)/ Commercial, Corporate and Institutional Banking (CCIB))
• 2 rotations (3 months each) within the Support Functions
• On-the-job learning
• On-going lunch & learns, hot topic sessions, social and networking events
• Pairing with a \xe2\x80\x98buddy\xe2\x80\x99 -, to set you up for success and provide insights into life as an SC employee
• Completion of a group project to be presented to senior leadership at the end of the program

We are hiring across a wide range of business areas, including:

Consumer, Private and Business Banking (CPBB)

Our team consists of 25,000 colleagues, spread across 35 countries. And we\'re transforming - embracing agile and new ways of working together, which helps us to truly \'think client\' and serve millions of our affluent and emerging affluent clients, across the world.

Our clients include individuals and small businesses, and we support them with a range of traditional banking services, including investment, credit and wealth planning solutions.

Our digital services are designed to provide our clients with unique and superior experiences. We offer career opportunities for relationship managers, customer service specialists, product and segment management, sales and wealth planning.

Client Coverage team, Commercial, Corporate and Institutional Banking (CCIB)

We\xe2\x80\x99re responsible for leading the development and management of our CCIB client relationships globally. We serve corporate, public sector, financial institutions, and investor clients by offering bespoke solutions and world-class products and services in collaboration with our product partners spanning transaction banking, financial markets, digital channels and data analytics, as well as operations and technology. With a longstanding history and global footprint covering the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, we are our clients\xe2\x80\x99 trusted banking partner.

Our clients include large corporations, governments, banks and investors headquartered, operating or investing in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. While our commercial banking clients represent a large and important portion of the economies we serve and are potential future multinational corporates. Our strong and deep local presence across these markets enables us to facilitate trade, capital and investment flows in and for our footprint, including across China\xe2\x80\x99s belt and road initiative. Here is where ambition meets impact \xe2\x80\x93 come build the future of banking with us.

Global Support Functions

Our Global Support Functions cover a wide range of business functions within the business, including:

• Finance
• Risk
• Property
• Compliance
• Internal Audit
• HR

More details about each function can be found

Your Training

Within the Job Rotation, the Business will provide and execute the learning framework to the Interns to set the minimum expectations and outputs required to successfully complete the rotation * Formal Learning - 10%

• Training with the Subject Matter Expert and/or People Leader regarding the process flow, DOIs and diSCover platform as recommended by the Business and People Capability Team
• Familiarization in the DOIs and systems

• Coaching - 20%

• Job Shadowing with the Subject Matter Expert and/or People Leader in assigned tasks
• People Leader to prepare list of tasks, checklists and necessary system logins and other relevant accesses People Leader to set the expected outputs or items to be competed per attachment

• On the Job Training - 70%

• Perform assigned roles during the attachment.
• Should complete the required volume/items set by the business during the attachment

The focal areas of the training will be focused on the Core behaviour and Core Skills:

Core Behaviour: Focusing on behavioural competencies such as Time Management, Personal Management, Ethics and Business Etiquettes, Team work and Personal Leadership

Core Skills: Focusing on an area that builds a core skill such as: Data Literacy, Sustainability, Cyber Security, Understanding Financial Services, Business Writing, Health and Safety and Presentation Skills.

Eligibility

We\xe2\x80\x99re interested in people with diverse backgrounds and encourage students from all degree disciplines to apply to our programmes. For our Local Graduate roles, you must:

• Be a Local Graduate (Bahraini)
• Have graduated with an undergraduate bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in the past 12 months

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our colleagues, clients and communities. And we\xe2\x80\x99re on a journey to be the world\xe2\x80\x99s most sustainable and responsible bank.

We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off includes volunteering leave, maternity and parental leave for spouse/partner, compassionate leave, sabbatical leave, along with market competitive annual leave
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers

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