Summer Temporary Career & Co-Op Specialist

Description

Who We Are:

Are you ready to work at a dynamic institution that believes in higher education with lower obstacles? Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (now known as Franklin Cummings Tech) is a nationally accredited non-profit, technical college serving Massachusetts. The college was seeded in 1791 with funds from the estate of Benjamin Franklin given to the City of Boston to proliferate access to apprenticeship and entrepreneurship. Today, that legacy has evolved into an accredited college that delivers accessible tech and trade education to level the playing field for aspiring talent.

With a mission to deliver transformative technical and trade education that leads to economic advancement, Franklin Cummings Tech offers a unique mix of certificates and degrees that appeal to enterprising students from Eastern Massachusetts and respond to employer demand for a well-prepared workforce. Intentional partnerships with the industries we serve coupled with high graduation and job placement rates, recently attracted the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the college from the Cummings Foundation, helping to spur incredible growth in the past four years.

Franklin Cummings Tech educates more than 1,000 learners annually across three student types: 1) certificate and degree seekers, 2) continuing education enrollees, and 3) early college students. As evidence that our mission holds resonance student enrollment is up and Fall 2027 applications have soared 16% year over year. 

We seek optimistic, data-informed, and dedicated colleagues who are eager to increase student success outcomes and boost total enrollment to 1,500 learners by 2030. Join us in this mission-driven work! 

Position Summary:

The Summer Temporary Full-Time Career and Co-op Specialist plays a central role in ensuring that students at the college have a positive outcome once they graduate. The Specialist helps lead career events, engages recent graduates, and works with students to become job ready. In addition, the Specialist supports institutional employer engagement, so that more employers successfully interview, hire, and retain students and recent graduates as part of their workforce. The role will start on July 13 and ends on August 31.  

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Event Management

• Manage logistics of Career Fairs and Showcases, including student and employer recruitment and registration, faculty engagement, student preparation, and company/student flow 
• Progress our standard project management system through Microsoft Project Planner 

Recent Alumni Engagement (Classes of 2022-2026)

• Manage outcomes tracking related to alumni placement, including: 
• Career Outcomes Survey to track job placement of recent alumni; outreach to May 2026 grads by 6-month and 12-month deadlines;  
• City of Boston reporting for Green Jobs grant  

Student Job Readiness

• Execute the strategy for collecting resumes from 90% of our degree and certificate (i.e. core) students  
• Build out and maintain the Job Opportunity spreadsheets per major 
• Support the SOS class for PE and HVAC to ensure student readiness 

Student Workers   

• Ensure the ongoing productivity the two student workers as they work on alumni-related efforts 
• Train and support student workers as they create and post social media stories 

Co-op Oversight

• Manage the paperwork process for employers who hire co-op students in HVAC and PE and suggest improvements 
• Support the students in HVAC and PE on their co-ops, including the biweekly check ins and site visits 
• Represent the Career and Co-op team at Orientations 

Employer Opportunities   

• Recruit and support students in National Grid academies 
• Connect HVAC/PE students to career opportunities, prep students, and track results 

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of work experience at a high-performance organization in project management, systems building, and continuous improvement  
• Associate’s Degree or higher required 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven systems-building experience 
• Proven experience with CRMs  
• Proven event and project management skills 
• Experience supporting students 
• Excellent collaborative skills 
• Detail-oriented 
• Results-driven and dependable 
• Strong listening skills 
• Integrity  
• Strong wri