Student Recruitment Officer

**Position: Student Recruitment Officer**

**Reports to: Manager, Student Recruitment**

**Contract Type: Indefinite, Full Time**

**Job Summary**

The Student Recruitment Team at the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC) plays a crucial role in building awareness and attracting individuals to pursue the CPA profession. By engaging with potential students through various outreach programs, informational sessions, and partnerships with educational institutions, the team highlights the benefits and opportunities of becoming a CPA. They provide valuable resources and guidance to help prospective students understand the CPA pathway, including the rigorous training and ethical standards upheld by CPABC. Through these efforts, the student recruitment team ensures a steady influx of talented individuals who are prepared to bring superior financial expertise, strategic thinking, business insight, and leadership to organizations, thereby contributing to the profession’s growth and reputation.

The Student Recruitment Officer is responsible for building awareness and interest in accounting careers and the CPA designation, with a focus on an assigned market portfolio and/or region. The role increases visibility of the profession by coordinating events, delivering presentations, fostering relationships with key stakeholders, negotiating sponsorships, and providing career advisory services. Reporting to the Manager, Student Recruitment, the incumbent will specifically focus on assigned market group and region.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Event Engagement and Enhancement**
- Review past events, analyze post-event feedback/data, and stay informed about industry trends, to uncover opportunities to improve event strategies and optimize attendee experience;
- Proactively engage with other departments to raise awareness of CPABC member and community events, including Chapter activities, and develop an understanding of priorities that could involve further collaboration.
- Oversee the development and maintenance of event-related resources, templates and polices, and share best practices for successful events with CPABC departments and volunteers.
- Lead sponsorship activities on behalf of the organization and department where appropriate.
- Establish and foster relationships with associations from other industries/professions to understand best practices and identify opportunities for collaboration and value-add for members.
- Oversee the effectiveness and ongoing improvement of the Chapter Program:

- Implement and maintain processes and best practices for volunteer-hosted events.
- Oversee development and maintenance of resources (policies, guidelines and templates).
- Support Chapters volunteers with their forecast and spending activities (e.g. lead the annual forecast process, regularly review variances and utilization of surplus budget, etc.).
- Support Chapters to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, identifying areas of risk for CPABC and/or volunteers that require additional training and direction.

**Event Planning and Delivery**
- Oversee the strategic planning of member and community events, including the coordination and execution of Chapter events, ensuring all events are organized, impactful and aligned with CPABC’s objectives
- Design processes to allocate event-related tasks across team members, collaborating with other departments as needed to ensure events are effectively promoted, supported and resourced.
- Forecast events and resources required to support planned events, 9-12 months in advance.

**Volunteer Leadership and Engagement**
- Provide leadership and guidance to volunteers that host events on behalf of CPABC, including through training seminars and regular meetings, ensuring they are onboarded, trained, supported, and equipped to host successful events.
- Act as a key liaison between volunteers and CPABC, attending events to foster collaboration and recognizing volunteer efforts through regular and varied forms of appreciation.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with Chapter leaders and volunteers, and work with them individually to motivate, engage and ensure succession plans are in place.
- Oversee the recruitment of new volunteers to support Chapters and CPABC programs.
- Oversee hosting of a variety of member and community event types and attend and speak at events for members to learn about the value of volunteering for CPABC.
- Oversee the provision of hands-on support for regions with less active volunteers, including initiating meetings with existing and new volunteers to increase engagement.

**Team Leadership and Management**
- Provide direction, guidance and support to both manager and team members.
- Develop the annual budget, including event budgets and anticipated Chapter events and meetings.
- Assist with preparation of quarterly and annual reporting for CPABC Board and EMC.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

**Key Requir