Assistant Director, Employer Relations and Recruiting

This position serves in a highly visible function reporting to the Senior Associate Director, Employer Relations and Recruiting (ERR), in the Pulsifer Career Development Center (PCDC). The primary duties of this role are to help manage all aspects of companies hiring Bentley students for jobs and internships and to provide exceptional customer service by managing employer events (both in person and virtually) for Bentley’s corporate partners. The employee is a critical member of the Employer Relations and Recruiting team within the Pulsifer Career Development Center and acts as the first point of contact for many corporate and recruiting partners. This candidate will become highly skilled with all the technology and algorithms of Handshake (student job search and recruiting system) and be able to advise students on it as well as use it to promote events for employers. This team member will need to be highly skilled with the technology and the use of Brazen for virtual events for corporate partners and students to have successful networking events in a remote/virtual environment. This team member will be a key point of contact for inputting information into the current “CRM” within Handshake and any future CRMs that will be utilized. This position assists with on-campus recruiting efforts and semi-annual career fairs. This team member will help track data for key corporate partners to create corporate engagement reports for PCDC staff and University Advancement colleagues. The Assistant Director will manage multiple ad hoc projects and utilize social media to promote ERR activities. Assisting career coaches with their specific events as needed will be a function of this role also. Working with the Executive Director of the Pulsifer Career Development Center, the secondary function of this role is to assist with identifying companies in diverse geographic locations relevant to where Bentley students want to work, where Bentley admissions is seeking to grow a pipeline of incoming students, and where the hot job markets are. Finally, this team member will also assist the Executive Director of the PCDC in partnering with the External Relations Director(s) of Strategic Accounts to share information on overlapping corporate partners.

• The primary duty of this role is to help manage all aspects of companies hiring Bentley students for jobs and internships and to provide exceptional customer service by managing employer events for Bentley’s corporate partners who are seeking to hire Bentley students for internships and full-time jobs. These events will be both in-person and virtual.
• Take the lead to help key corporate partners strategize on events and then evaluate effectiveness and efficiency of events.
• Actively manage and lead the logistics and promotions of events for corporate partners held both on and off campus, in-person or virtual.
• Proactively take initiative to develop employer relationships through a combination of methods that may include research, lead generation, prospecting, networking and in-person appointments with new, existing, or inactive employer partners on campus, by phone, on zoom and corporate outreach visits.
• This team member will utilize data from multiple sources to create corporate engagement reports for key corporate partners to be shared with PCDC staff and University Advancement Colleagues.
• Interact with PCDC staff, other departments across campus and Bentley students to ensure successful communication and promotion of jobs, internships, and events.
• Assist with managing the payment process for the corporate members of Board of Hire Education, (the undergraduate career development team’s advisory board).
• Assist with updating the Employer’s DE&I resource and promote to students and PCDC staff.
• Develop and maintain relationships internally with the Multicultural Center and externally with SEO, INROADS, MLT and The Partnership to augment career opportunities for underrepresented student populations at Bentley.
• Will track key data based on engagement by companies and alumni in PCDC events.
• Assist with multiple ad hoc projects under direction of Associate Director, Employer Relations and Recruiting. This can include, but are not limited to, Traveler’s Funds, research projects for students with faculty, and helping to manage the high-tech recruiting room in LaCava 220.
• Assists in the marketing and promotion of programs and activities presented by ERR; Utilize social media to promote ERR events.
• Support Pulsifer Career Development Center’s and Bentley University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion goals and Bentley’s Core Values
  https://www.bentley.edu/about/mission-and-values

• May advise students on interview professionalism as it relates to Bentley’s policies as needed.
• Will assist with all logistics prior to the two large career fairs held twice per academic year and help manage career fairs the day of and assist with any follow up work.
• Continue to advance skills in PowerPoint, Excel, and existing and new social media platforms. Will be highly skilled on LinkedIn to research alumni.

• Bachelor’s degree plus at least 2 years of experience or Associate’s degree with 5 years of experience in a business setting, event planning or relevant career services’ experience.
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint and Social Media knowledge and skill.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to work comfortably and effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong listening skills, excellent attention to detail and driven.

• Setting is a fast-paced office environment or virtual environment with numerous activities occurring - sometimes simultaneously and walking to events taking place on campus.
• Flexible work arrangement. Please see the university’s Flexible Work Arrangements policy to learn more about Bentley’s workplace flexibility-
  https://www.bentley.edu/offices/human-resources/flexible-work-arrangements
• Evening and occasional weekend work required.
• Occasional travel off campus is needed requiring transportation.
• The environment requires this individual to be flexible in responding to constant change and ensuring that individual customer’s needs for information/resources are met.
• The position requires a high level of energy to be able to respond effectively to customer needs.
• The position involves moving around the office and back and forth events on campus and off site but will not require unusual amounts of physical effort or exertion. Will require being in zoom or other online modes for events, interviews for students with companies and workshops.