ICS - University Recruiting Associate

Position Summary:
Working in a challenging, high volume, fast-paced environment, the University Recruiter implements strategies to identify, attract, and hire high quality, diverse employees for their assigned office(s) from top colleges and universities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Relationship and Brand Building:

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders in offices you support
• Develop and maintain relationships with department chairs, key faculty, and career services at core recruiting schools
• Communicate Grant Thornton brand message effectively internally and externally
• Manage relationships and communication with candidate pipeline for early identification recruiting, internship and associate positions
• Support firm-wide diversity recruiting strategies

Project Management:

• Coordinate and facilitate all logistics associated with hosting on-campus activities at target schools. This includes scheduling and conducting interviews, arranging information sessions, presentations and socials with key clubs and organizations
• Coordinate all logistics surrounding the office visit process, including interview days, office sell events, open houses.
• Pipeline and Internship program execution for assigned office(s)

Operations:

• Source and fill local office internship and hiring needs
• Maintain local recruiting budget
• Manage internal and external recruiting systems including the applicant tracking system (ATS) for candidates in your assigned office(s)
• Facilitate talent review discussions for campus hires and determine offer decisions
• Provide reporting and status updates on the progress of university recruiting to local office and university recruiting leadership

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business related field, Human Resources or Communications
• Ability to establish priorities, manage deadlines, exercise a high degree of professionalism in interactions with all levels of internal and external clients.
• Strong administrative skills, documentation skills, and detail-orientation and a demonstrated proficiency with reporting tools and databases.
• Willingness to travel to assigned campuses (can be heavy during peak recruiting seasons)

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Experience in university recruiting, administrative support of recruiting, or public accounting