Events and Employer Development Coordinator

Events and Employer Development Coordinator

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Job Summary

**A Brief Overview**
Career Services provide university-wide support for career development and the growth of experiential learning opportunities. We empower and support students and recent graduates to design a rewarding career journey that leverages their education and skills to impact the world positively. Reporting to the Associate Director, the Events and Employer Development Coordinator builds and maintains relationships with employers to increase the number of opportunities for students. The events and employer development coordinator plans events, such as career fairs, networking events, and information sessions, including necessary communications and promotions, and they develop sponsorship opportunities in support of those events.

This position acts as a key point of contact for internship and professional experience programs. This position guides employers through the employment partnership hiring process including job postings, company information sessions, interviewing, and tracking offers and acceptances. This position also participates in the design and delivery of employment partnership related materials.

The schedule for this position requires the incumbent to work evenings and weekends.

**Job Description**:

**What you will do**
- Acts as a first point of contact for internship and professional experience programs.
- Builds relationships with employers to help create partnership opportunities.
- Attends conferences related to career development and employer relations.
- Guides employers through the employment partnership hiring process including job postings, company information sessions, interviewing, and tracking offers and acceptances.
- Contributes to the development and administration of new experiential learning programs and initiatives.
- Participates in the design and delivery of employment partnership related materials.
- Monitors data on student placements and contacts and analyzes trends.
- Coordinates events such as pre-departure workshops, welcome back events, and information sessions.
- Obtains feedback from employers, students, and partners to inform recommendations for improvements to the program and processes.
- Updates website information about events, workshops, featured employers, information sessions taking place and the fair exhibitor guide.
- Attends relevant stakeholder meetings, creates agendas and records minutes.
- Follows-up on new sales leads from existing clients, trade show events, and marketing activities.
- Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

**Required Education**
- Four-Year Bachelor Degree or equivalent.

**Required Experience**
- More than 2 years and up to and including 3 years of experience.

**Required Licenses and Certifications**
- Satisfactory Criminal Records Check required.
- Vulnerable Sector Screening required.

Consideration may be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**Job Knowledge and Requirements**
- Practical and applied knowledge of specialized methods and processes that are typically acquired through a combination of technical or academic qualification and/or work experience.
- Provide consultation and advice on non-straightforward and/or complex issues.
- Interaction with others typically requires interpersonal skills and the ability to understand and influence.
- Adapt messages to meet the needs of the intended audience.
- Build relationships, trust and credibility.
- Manage own work and may train and review the work of casual employees, work study students and/or volunteers, to see commitments through to completion.
- Contribute to setting work priorities and direction, supporting the team in achieving goals and objectives.
- Participate in project team meetings and develop individual project plans.
- Lead procedural or technological change within a unit.
- Identify new problems and seek information and input to fully understand the cause of problems.
- Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work processes.
- Draw logical conclusions and provides opinions and recommendations.
- Research equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion resources and best practices relevant to the job and unit operations in order to inform evidence-based planning.
- Commitment to principles of equity, diversity, accessibility, inclusion, Indigenization and human rights for equity deserving groups.

Employment Equity and Accessibility Statement

**Skills**
- Communications