Associate Director, Employer Relations

Associate Director, Employer Relations

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Department

Booth Career Services : Employer Relations

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices.

Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim :

• an unmatched faculty.
• degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
• a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
• strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture.

At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions.

Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

Job Summary

The Associate Director will work within the extremely collaborative, fast-paced, high-performing, dynamic Employer Relations team to maintain and build the Chicago Booth brand with employers.

This individual will be expected to have knowledge of all Booth student groups (full-time program, evening / weekend program, executive MBA) and alumni populations.

Employer Development staff members focus on a sub-set of industries of interest to Booth students and alumni. The individual in this role will initially focus on career targets in startup companies and venture capital.

Specific focus is on identifying, cultivating, and establishing new relationships with companies and search firms in the assigned industries that do not have campus recruiting relationships with Chicago Booth.

The Associate Director will work closely with other members of the Booth community, particularly an industry career coach, representatives from the Polsky Center, faculty members, and colleagues in other departments and geographies, to broaden existing employer relationships both functionally and geographically.

Much of this employer outreach will happen through individual conversations; some will happen through the development and execution of employer-facing events : including networking nights, conferences, roundtables, and panel discussions.

Responsibilities

Participates as an active member of the Employer Relations team to develop and implement a year-round marketing strategy to identify and source employment opportunities for the wide range of interests and job levels represented in Chicago Booth constituencies : Specialty Masters students, Full-Time MBA students, Evening / Weekend MBA students, Executive MBA students in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong, and alumni across the globe.

Developing this strategy will include research on employment trends and opportunities and engagement with student and alumni populations.

• Partners with industry, regional and / or functional student and alumni groups to assist in employer outreach targets.
• Creatively sources leads from social media, students, and alumni. Proactively reaches out to contacts, often cold-calling company representatives, to establish relationships on behalf of Chicago Booth.
• Travels domestically (app. 10-15%) to meet with corporate contacts.
• Establishes and maintains positive relationships with internal (admissions, corporate relations, and alumni development) and corporate contacts, while promoting employer development initiatives.
• Markets resulting opportunities effectively and efficiently to the appropriate Booth constituencies.
• Envisions, develops, plans, implements, and evaluates appropriate events to support building the Chicago Booth brand across specific industries and geographies.
• Develops communication pieces, including social media updates, blog entries, and presentations intended for small and large audiences, in order to give student and alumni populations a view into the relationship development work happening on their behalf.
• Demonstrates comfort with daily administrative tasks including data entry, calendar management and all travel planning.
• Identifies, cultivates, and develops employer relationships and student employment opportunities for assigned industry areas.

Uses best practices and knowledge of employers to recruit new companies and / or organizations to participate in career fairs, on-campus recruiting, job postings, and other programs.

Creates, establishes, and maintains relationships with search firms, and meets with an assigned group of new alumni and / or employer partners periodically to generate employer development leads and opportunities.

Collaborates with publications to develop marketing materials.

Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education :

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience :

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience :

A minimum of three years of experience in career services or a relevant business environment, such as sales or business development.

Technical Skills or Knowledge :

Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and a willingness and enthusiasm to learn internal systems and social media.

Preferred Competencies

• Comfortable proactively reaching out to contacts, cold-calling company representatives, and establishing a relationship on behalf of Chicago Booth.
• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrated initiative, creative thinking, and the ability to multitask, meet deadlines, and work successfully in a fast-paced environment.
• Professional demeanor, including tact and discretion, with a track record of establishing positive client relationships.
• Comfortable with ambiguity knowing when to make decisions without complete information, knowing when to ask questions and when to engage other stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Working Conditions

• This position is currently expected to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.
• Work non-traditional hours, including early morning, evening and weekends during peak times.

Application Documents

• Resume / CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

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