Associate Director, Employer Relations; Development

About The Department

Department Booth Career Services:
Employer Relations

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and renowned for influencing business education and practice. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Booth offers a rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education that prepares students to be confident, effective, respected leaders. Booth has multiple campuses in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong, with state-of-the-art learning environments.

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 University of Chicago, Booth shares the University's core values and intellectual culture. The school emphasizes questioning, testing ideas, and seeking proof. Seven Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas, making Booth a pioneer in business education. For more information, please visit http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Join the dynamic, high-energy Employer Relations team at Chicago Booth as an Associate Director. Your mission: know our diverse student groups (full-time, evening/weekend, executive MBA, specialized masters) and alumni inside out, and connect them with industry partners. You will be the face of Booth, building and maintaining our brand with employers. While this is a sales role, it focuses on cultivating long-term partnerships.

Expect one-on-one outreach and site visits, with event orchestration as needed. Initially, this position will focus on Venture Capital, Venture Funded Startups, and Investment/Asset Management industries; other industries may be added in the future.

• Develop and implement a year-round marketing strategy to identify and source employment opportunities for Booth constituencies (Specialty Masters, Full-Time MBA, Evening/Weekend MBA, Executive MBA in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong, and alumni worldwide). This includes researching employment trends and engaging student and alumni populations.
• Partner with industry, regional, and functional student and alumni groups to support employer outreach targets.
• Source leads creatively from social media, students, alumni, and recruiting systems. Proactively contact company representatives to establish relationships on behalf of Booth.
• Travel domestically approximately 10-15% to meet with corporate contacts.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with internal partners (admissions, corporate relations, alumni development) and corporate contacts while promoting employer development initiatives.
• Collaborate with Career Services Career Management/Coaching and Operations teams to provide recruiting intelligence and support company events and interviews.
• Market opportunities to Booth constituencies effectively and efficiently.
• Envision, develop, plan, implement, and evaluate events to build the Booth brand across industries and geographies.
• Develop communication pieces (social media updates, blog entries, presentations) for student and alumni audiences to showcase relationship development work.
• Perform daily administrative tasks.
• Establish and maintain relationships with search firms and meet with assigned groups of new alumni and/or employer partners to generate development leads; collaborate with publications on marketing materials.
• Collect qualitative information about Booth's market position and recommend actions to senior staff. Schedule and accompany career services staff and senior staff on relationship-building road trips.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Education

• Bachelor's degree.

Experience

• Background in career services or a…