Director of Industry to Campus Connections

About the role

The Center for Career & Professional Development (CCPD) is the university’s centralized career planning and employment assistance service for USF students and alumni. The CCPD supports students and graduates in assessing, exploring, developing, and implementing their career goals, gaining employability skills, preparing for graduate/professional school or the labor market, and connecting with employers.

Responsibilities

• Serves on the CCPD leadership team to align office goals with university initiatives and employment trends.
• Works collaboratively with the team to maximize employer activities and engage students.
• Supervise and coach the team to align activities with the strategic goals and mission of CCPD.
• Lead the Industry to Campus team to create a strategic engagement plan for industry partners to connect with students and increase the hiring of graduates.
• Create recruitment policies and procedures to serve as best practices for campus and community.
• Identify, advertise, and secure sponsorship opportunities for industry connections to brand themselves on campus and create partnerships.
• Work across unit teams to proactively research, identify, plan, and implement existing immersive programs and talent recruitment events.
• Oversee student employment and JLD functions of the office.
• Collaborate with the CCPD leadership team to facilitate external engagement across the University as needed to ensure strategic partnerships, signature programs, key employer relationships, new initiatives, and externally sponsored activities foster new and expand existing relationships across the university and beyond based upon a culture of trust, collaboration and execution, and value creation.
• Support talent requests from strategic partners, including connections to key faculty, staff, and student organizations, campus interviews, employer events, information sessions, and access to resume books.
• Host career fairs and participate in CCPD events and represent the unit with the Chamber of Commerce and university committees relating to employer development at local, state, regional, and national meetings.
• Facilitate an Employer Summit each summer to provide professional development to community recruiters and foster connection to USF.
• Promote and utilize Handshake to track contacts and promote employment opportunities and events.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution.
• Minimum of 7 years of related exempt level experience, including 5 years of managerial experience.
• Experience leading a team, project, program, or function.