Campus Talent Acquisition Program Specialist

Division: Nashville Main
Project Location(s): Nashville, TN 37211 USA
Minimum Years Experience: Travel Involved: Job Type: RegularJob Classification: ExperiencedEducation:Job Family:Human ResourcesCompensation:Salaried Exempt

The Campus Recruiting Specialist provides operational and programmatic support to the Campus Recruiting Manager in executing campus and early-career recruiting initiatives. This role supports the planning, coordination, and delivery of campus recruiting programs—including internships, co-ops, and entry-level hiring—while helping ensure a positive candidate experience and strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and academic institutions. The Specialist plays a key role in organizing events, managing candidate pipelines, and supporting data, communications, and logistics across the Business Center.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Support the execution of campus recruiting activities, including career fairs, information sessions, classroom presentations, site visits, sponsorships, and national conferences (e.g., NSBE, SWE) and rotational programs.
• Assist with planning and logistics for intern, co-op, and early-career programs, including onboarding coordination and event scheduling.
• Help manage calendars, timelines, and task tracking for campus recruiting initiatives and projects.
• Support candidate pipelines by coordinating interview scheduling, communications, and follow-up activities.
• Assist with candidate screening, sharing, and tracking across Business Centers as appropriate.
• Help deliver a high-touch, inclusive, and professional candidate experience from first interaction through onboarding.
• Support relationship management with universities, career centers, student organizations, and academic partners.
• Assist the Campus Recruiting Manager in maintaining target school lists and tracking engagement activities.
• Partner with HR, TA, and Operations teams to support campus recruiting needs and timelines.
• Maintain accurate candidate data and documentation within applicant tracking and recruiting systems.
• Support reporting and tracking of campus recruiting metrics, including event participation, pipeline status, and conversion outcomes.
• Ensure processes align with compliance and data accuracy standards.
• Partner with Marketing and Talent Management teams to support campus recruiting communications, digital content, and outreach.
• Assist with creating and updating materials for career fairs, information sessions, and conferences.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, organization, and candidate experience within campus recruiting programs.
• Provide administrative and project support to the Campus Recruiting Manager as needed.

The salary range for this position is estimated to be $72,000 – $84,000 annualized.

Turner Construction provides flexible benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, financial benefits such as a 401(k) plan, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, wellness benefits, a voluntary legal plan, identity theft, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage.   In addition to our extensive benefit offerings, we provide paid vacation, wellness/sick time, holidays, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonuses, and end of year appreciation pay.   

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, Communications, Psychology, or related field of study, Master’s Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or related field of study preferred with minimum of 3 years 1–3 years of experience in recruiting, campus relations, HR coordination, or a related role.
• Experience working in construction or large, multi‑site organizations, a plus
• Strategic mindset to define, develop, and scale Campus/Early Career programs and standardized processes across business center locations
• Advanced project management skills to communicate, implement, and manage establish program expectations with stakeholders (internally and externally)
• Knowledge and understanding of Federal, State, and local legislation impacting recruitment and hiring practices
• Ability to develop program metrics and measures and discern data‑driven market trends and insights
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• High degree of integrity, maintain confidential information, and exercise discretion
• Excellent professional presentation delivery and verbal and written communication skills
• Continuous improvement mindset and familiar with related concepts, methodologies, and practices
• Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office suite of applications with advanced Mi