Senior Associate Director, Employer Relations

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.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

The Senior 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 student and alumni. The individual in this role will focus on career targets in private equity, real estate, and venture capital. Additionally, this role will have two direct reports that are Associate directors covering venture funded startups as well as Technology, Media, Entertainment and Retail. Additionally, this role will manage relationships with employers based in Latin America, primarily Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Specific focus is on cultivating, and establishing relationships with companies and search firms in the assigned industries and in Latin America that do not have campus-recruiting relationships with Chicago Booth.

The Senior 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 EMEA and Asia, 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 conferences, roundtables, and panel discussions.

In addition to employer development within assigned industries, the Senior Associate Director will serve as the lead for business development overall, mentoring Associate Directors and helping them determine targets and activities, while also setting goals and monitoring progress in partnership with the Senior Director, Employer Relations.

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 the Chicago Booth constituencies of 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.
• Manages two direct reports engaged in business development activities, mentoring them in best practices for identifying and successfully driving employer relationships across assigned industries.  Creates ongoing training plans and monitor progress towards.
• In addition to assigned industries, works with all other employer development staff to set the department’s overall marketing strategy on a yearly and quarterly basis; determines outreach targets and monitors progress to goals for all while staying current on overall hiring trends and identifying opportunities to focus on specifi