Sr. Associate Director

Job Description

The Senior Associate Director, Recruitment & Employer Outreach is responsible for recruitment programs, networking opportunities, employer relations, and tracking related statistics for the Law School. The overall goal for this role is to ensure that BC Law students have access to a wide array of opportunities in the continuously evolving national legal market, and that they are able to learn about and access these opportunities as efficiently as possible throughout their three years of law school. Additionally, this role is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with all types of legal employers throughout the nation, and for ensuring that all information related to employment and employers is tracked and conveyed to the rest of the CSO team.

A key component for law student satisfaction and for the Law School's national reputation is our outstanding employment record. The person in this role plays a significant part in ensuring that we can continue to reach our goals in this regard, in an ever-changing legal market.

Essential functions include but are not limited to the following:

Recruitment - 40%:

• Lead recruitment team efforts for summer and post-graduate opportunities. Including interview programs, such as several On-Camera-Interview (OCI) programs per year, and networking programs, such as yearly in-person large-scale formal networking events, and numerous smaller networking opportunities that take place throughout the year both on campus and virtually.
• Collaborate with the Assistant Dean to determine the best timeline for recruitment programs and large-scale networking programs; lead implementation of these programs.
• Track and report on key metrics and analytics related to student employment and hiring timelines.
• Work to continuously improve recruitment efficiency and effectiveness, in both public and private sectors.
• Update marketing materials and outreach communications for employers.
• Contribute expertise to the success of all Career Services events, programs and projects.

Employer Outreach - 40%:

• Engage in exploring legal market and legal innovation trends, as well as student interest trends, in order to recommend and implement strategy for BC Law job growth.
• Develop new leads and strengthen existing relationships with legal, legal-related and other business/industry employers to increase internship and permanent employment opportunities for JD students and recent graduates.
• Meet with large law firm recruiters on a regular basis to determine the ideal large law firm recruitment timeline for BC Law students and recruiting trends.
• Meet with employers, leads, and alumni in furtherance of the job growth strategy.
• Collaborate with the Director of Externships to build new law school contacts with local employers.
• Create processes to improve coordination of law school's employer outreach efforts and to track those efforts.
• Attend internal, external and virtual networking events.
• Collaborate with faculty, administration, advancement, and alumni on employment initiatives as needed; following up on leads who reach out to these offices about student employment.

Training/Programming - 20%:

• Communicate regularly with CSO staff about market and employer information and trends in order to ensure that programming, advising, and reporting efforts are current.
• In collaboration with the Assistant Dean and advising team, create practice/market and recruiting skills presentations and materials for students.
• Collaborate with Advancement as appropriate in facilitating effective mentoring, networking or other related programming with alumni.
• Aid in career advising on an "as needed" basis.

This position reports to the Assistant Dean, Career Services and oversees the role of Manager, Recruitment & Operations.