Head of Career Development and Employer Relations
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Full time - Director Level
Operations & Customer Service
The Opportunity
The Head of Career Development and Employer Relations is a strategic leader, responsible for managing and overseeing the campus career development and employer relations team by supporting learning through comprehensive career development programming and activities. This team delivers a full range of career programming, cultivates relationships with employers, and collaborates with campus departments to integrate career readiness initiatives into the student experience and support the employment success of students.
This role requires expertise in career development and an understanding of the local and regional job market. As the campus team lead you will guide the Career Development and Employer Relations team while serving as the main point of contact in collaboration with other campus leads and the central team to ensure global alignment and coordination between our global campuses. This role reports directly to the Campus Dean and under the Dean’s leadership, will work closely with other Campus teams (Academics, Visas, Student Services, and Faculty) to deliver a coordinated and impactful Career journey to Hult students. This role will also participate in regular Career programming review and revisions as part of Hult’s annual program review cycle.
Responsibilities:
Team Management
Provides leadership, organization and administrative oversight of the Career Development and Employer Relations campus teams and mentors team members to achieve key performance metrics.
Directs the development and implementation of innovative career development and programs, career advising and consultations, workshops and professional development, employer relations, partnerships and opportunities, and industry events to enhance student job readiness, engagement and student success. Stays current with trends and innovations in career development.
Provides leadership in leveraging technology and online platforms to enhance career programming delivery and reach a broader student population. Oversees campus content of promotional materials, including brochures, posters, digital content (social media), and other marketing that effectively convey the value of career development and engagement of students.
Attends bi-weekly calls with other campus career heads to support collaboration and global coordination and attends monthly calls with Campus Deans, Provost, and Central Team to ensure team performance metrics are on track.
Manage the collection and reporting on employment data as well as reporting needs to the Central Team to support strategic decision-making processes, rankings data requests, student outcome reporting, and compliance reporting.
Provide monthly student career success stories for Marketing and enrolment team and participate in and support enrolment training events (online and/or in person)
Maintain confidentiality of student records (in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act).
Career Development Programming and Student Advising
Manage the team to organize and execute interactive career workshops covering all career and job search fundamentals – career assessment, personal branding, resume writing, proactive job searches, interviewing techniques, mock interviews, salary negotiations, etc.
Collaborates across campus with colleagues and faculty to build partnerships for embedding career readiness competencies, career programming, and career preparation into the curricular and co-curricular student experience.
Serves as a Career advisor to a select group of UG students. Fills in for other Advisers when needed.
Delivers presentations, classes, and/or workshops to students as part of the Career programming
Provides direction and guidance in the training, development, supervision, and evaluation of team members
Employer Relations
Guides the Employer Relations team in developing and maintaining relationships with employers (local, regional, and global), local alumni, and industry partners to create pipelines and partnerships for students and their future career opportunities.
Maintain cooperative partnerships to identify viable job opportunities for students, on-campus employer activities, guest speakers, recruiting events, etc.
Guide and support the ER team to ensure they meet their annual KPIs, including; sourcing contacts and opportunities that lead to full-time and internships for students, securing alumni and corporate contacts for panels, setting up company engagement opportunities, partnering with professional organizations on co-branded events, and serving on the Campus business challenge task force
Provides direction and guidance in the training, development, supervision, and evaluation of team members
*On campus Requirement - This position requires on-campus presence at least 4 days a week with 5 days during peak periods of the academic year. Current 1-day work-from-home (WFH) allowance must be coordinated with campus team to ensure adequate team coverage on campus. Note that the WFH allowance is subject to change in accordance with School review.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred in Career Advising, Student Affairs, Higher Education, Business Administration, or related field.
Minimum three years of experience in career development, professional development, employer relations, and/or corporate recruiting.
Familiarity with recruitment practices, most in demand roles and skills and overall market dynamics, regionally and nationally. Deep knowledge and network in one or more functional areas and/or one or more industry sectors is highly valued.
Keen interest in understanding and communicating regional employment opportunities. Strong sense of local, regional and global business and related hiring trends. General awareness of global employment opportunities.
Experience working with Handshake or other career development and assessment platforms. Proficient in database management systems (especially Salesforce) and Microsoft Office (especially Excel).
Exceptional facilitation and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings, ability to effectively and enthusiastically present to and interact with students, one on one, in facilitated classroom and workshop formats.
Staff management experience
Effective at building relationships, influencing others, and working collaboratively across teams.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively across diverse cultures.
Detail-oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
Belief in and desire to participate in the Hult mission for educating, inspiring and empowering students from more than 150 different countries, to carve a career path in international business, and transform their lives and the lives of others in the process.
International work experience and exposure to multicultural environments is a plus.
Please note you must have the right to work in the United States to be considered for this position.
About us
Hult is a new kind of non-profit business school that constantly innovates to meet the needs of students, employers, and society in a world that is changing faster than ever before. More than a business school, Hult is a dynamic and multicultural community that educates, inspires, and connects some of the most forward-thinking business talent from around the world.
What we do
Hult International Business School is a non-profit educational pioneer and the first triple accredited US business school. Ranked by the Financial Times, Economist, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek, Hult offers undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs across its global campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and New York. The school’s philosophy is that business skills can only truly be learned by doing. By immersing students from all over the world in practical, hands-on experiences from day one, this fresh approach to education is creating a global community of confident, entrepreneurially minded graduates, ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.
Solving problems and overcoming challenges is what our students do: all year, every year. We bring together creative, open-minded people from all over the world to find solutions to the world’s most pressing issues by doing business, not just studying it so they graduate with the skills and the mindset to be ready for anything. And now we’re looking for talented workforce that think the same way.
We seek to promote an environment for our students, faculty, and staff that welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, races, religions, genders, sexual identities, abilities, and personal circumstances in a spirit of inclusivity and belonging. At Hult, we believe that it’s through our diversity that we find our strength.
Mission statement
We strive to be the most relevant business school in the world. By using our global reach and always being creative, entrepreneurial, and on the cutting edge, our aim is to have a positive impact on individuals and organizations by transforming their management practices. In so doing, we hope to be the business school of choice for existing and aspiring leaders. We will contribute to sustainable growth, helping leaders to integrate commercial success and societal well-being.
Equal opportunities at Hult
Hult is dedicated to actively creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing opportunity regardless of gender, religion, race, color, sexual identity, disability, ethnicity, age, and all the individual identities that make us unique. If you require any accommodation to assist you in the interview process, please submit this with your inquiry.
Hult offers competitive salaries and benefits in a global, empathetic, and highly multicultural working environment. If you are motivated by the prospect of an international career with a dynamic and forward-thinking school, we’d love to hear from you.
Legal
Hult International Business School is a 501©(3) non-profit educational organization registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) to award U.S. degrees. Students are awarded a joint U.S. and U.K. degree on successful completion of the program. The U.K. degree is awarded by the Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust, known as Ashridge, with which Hult has a strategic alliance.