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Are you passionate about making a difference? Would you like to create a positive impact on the Irish Economy?

At IDA we’re passionate about making a difference too. As Ireland's inward promotion agency, we help established foreign-owned companies to land and expand across the country. We work with a portfolio of over 1,500 companies from different industry sectors to help bring jobs to Ireland. Currently, over 450,000 people are employed either directly or indirectly by our client companies, meaning that for every 10 jobs created by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ireland, 8 more jobs are generated in the wider economy - this is the impact we are dedicated to creating.

To help us continue to achieve our goals, we embrace our values every day; People, Professionalism, Passion for Performance & Achievement, and Public Service. So, if you would like to be a part of an ambitious and committed team that makes an impact on the future of Ireland, the IDA Ireland Graduate Programme is the place for you!

Continuous Personal and Professional Development at IDA

At IDA, your personal and professional development is paramount to us. The programme is positioned within the organisation with a long-term view, aimed towards your personal growth over the three years.

There will be countless opportunities to connect, socialise, and build relationships with a network of experienced and talented individuals, at all levels of the organisation, that will benefit you throughout your career.

Here at IDA, we are passionate about the part we play in Ireland’s economic and social growth, and we are equally passionate about our people.

We will encourage and support you as you develop within the organisation. We offer a broad-range learning experience including:

Tutor led courses such as: Project Management, Influencing Skills, Building Effective Relationships.

Collaborative workshops such as: Innovation and Creativity, Problem Solving.

One to One learning : Personal Mentoring and Coaching.

We offer each graduate the opportunity to complete language courses.

Whatever your learning preference, we aim to support you on your professional development journey.

To bring breadth to your learning experience, we provide opportunities to take part in working groups that add value to the organisation such as our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Wellbeing, and Social teams.

Why the IDA Graduate Programme

The IDA Graduate Programme provides recent graduates from diverse academic backgrounds with the opportunity to kickstart their careers in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

Our unique three-year program affords graduates the opportunity to get involved from day one. Successful graduates will spend four nine-month rotations working different departments in the organisation. Graduates will spend time working in broad spectrum, cross-sectoral roles. These will range from client-facing positions in our Dublin HQ, regional locations or overseas offices, alongside business support roles. Each role provides opportunities for graduates to showcase their skillset and help IDA Ireland to attract and retain Foreign Direct Investment.

The organisation devotes significant resources to graduates’ continuous development over the three years. Support is offered every step of the way, including in the form of a mentor and a Graduate Buddy.

Graduates are provided with range of opportunities to attend training designed by our Learning and Development team, and tuition aid is available for those who wish to further their education. To accompany this development, graduates will gain significant hands-on experience through collaboration with colleagues across several business functions both in Ireland and oversees.

The programme allows for significant graduate input across the three years. In tandem with the continuous development opportunities provided by IDA, this enables successful graduates to grow into their roles and realise their potential, with many graduates seeing the end of the programme culminate in a permanent role.

Continuous Personal and Professional Development at IDA

At IDA, your personal and professional development is paramount to us. The programme is positioned within the organisation with a long-term view, aimed towards your personal growth over the three years.

There will be countless opportunities to connect, socialise, and build relationships with a network of experienced and talented individuals, at all levels of the organisation, that will benefit you throughout your career.

Here at IDA, we are passionate about the part we play in Ireland’s economic and social growth, and we are equally passionate about our people.

We will encourage and support you as you develop within the organisation. We offer a broad-range learning experience including:

Tutor led courses such as: Project Management, Influencing Skills, Building Effective Relationships.

Collaborative workshops such as: Innovation and Creativity, Problem Solving.

One to One learning : Personal Mentoring and Coaching.

We offer each graduate the opportunity to complete language courses.

Whatever your learning preference, we aim to support you on your professional development journey.

To bring breadth to your learning experience, we provide opportunities to take part in working groups that add value to the organisation such as our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Wellbeing, and Social teams.

IDA’s most important asset is its people; that is why we aim to continuously develop and support our colleagues. Working at IDA will give you the opportunity to start your career while also continuing your learning, and we will offer any assistance we can in helping you to reach your full potential.

As part of the team, you will gain experience supporting multi-national companies in establishing or expanding their Irish operations. You will also have the opportunity to meet and talk with various people in the organisation and hear first-hand the amazing work our colleagues do on a day-to-day basis.

In addition to the ongoing learning, development and mentoring you will receive, there will also be performance management development reviews and organisational/team development initiatives to ensure that you are getting the most from your time here at IDA Ireland.

The work you will do is dynamic and varied. Your responsibilities will include business analysis, market research, content creation, project management, and client visit planning and execution. In your regional and divisional rotations, there will be opportunities to travel to different locations within Ireland as part of site visits and stakeholder engagement meetings. You will partake in in-house training in relation to both business and interpersonal skills and will be provided with the opportunity to avail of foreign language courses. You will also receive structured mentorship from IDA management and will have a specifically assigned Graduate Buddy to support you throughout the programme.

We aim to give our graduates a fully rounded experience, therefore you will also support projects outside of your main role. Volunteer work is a priority in IDA, and you will closely with the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team, Corporate Social Responsibility team, and our organisation-wide Meet Up team – who arrange information sessions for employees on topical issues and subjects of interest with external subject matter experts – to ensure you get a 360-degree view of all that the organisation has to offer. By the end of the three-year programme, you will have worked across multi-sector projects in Ireland and overseas, which will have allowed you to build a valuable internal and external network and to strongly develop both your business acumen and soft skills.

IDA Ireland is firmly committed to promoting and advocating for greater Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), to ensure a welcoming environment for everyone across the organisation.

The EDI team at IDA passionately upholds eight distinct pillars: Disability; Gender; Intersectionality; LGBTQ+; Multicultural; Neurodiversity; Social Mobility and Stage of Life, aiming to represent the interests of the entire company. The team is comprised of a cross-organisational group that represents a mix of age, gender, seniority, location, and background, to ensure we role model inclusivity and mirror IDA’s demographic makeup. We host quarterly anchor events to raise awareness of important social issues and provide educational workshops to support and educate colleagues on a variety of subjects. Each area of the business has a voice and an opportunity to contribute.

We recently won the Public Sector Organisation of the Year Award at the National Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2023 and were also accredited with an ‘Investors in Diversity’ Silver Mark. This is recognition of the effort and enthusiasm provided by a huge team of supporters, champions and advocates, that have lent their time and energy over the last few years to make Equality, Diversity and Inclusion authentic in IDA.

The EDI team at IDA Ireland have also been involved in making the recruitment process as equitable as possible. All members of the interview panels have undergone unconscious bias training, applications are encouraged from all academic backgrounds, and we use a blend of in-person and written assessments along with one competency-based interview in order to ensure we get the best out of every candidate who applies.

However, like many organisations, we are still working to make our induction process as inclusive as possible, so if you feel that this may be improved in any way or if you require any reasonable accommodation to take part, please let us know in your application.