Senior University Relationships Lead

Job Description:

Senior University Relationships Lead

The Role

As the Senior University Relationships Lead, you serve as the strategic liaison between Fidelity and our university partners across graduate, undergraduate and community colleges in the New England region. In alignment with Fidelity's workforce strategy and various business plans, you will develop and maintain impactful relationships with our target university career services, deans, faculty, and students, alumni and professional student organizations to provide access to top students and establish a mutually beneficial long-term collaboration. In this role, you lead the planning and execution of campus recruiting strategies in close collaboration with various internal stakeholders. You will also play a critical role in partnering with key leaders and internal stakeholders across Fidelity's three regional offices in New England and support our regional early career offerings such as the early-identification programs.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor's degree with 5-7 years of recruiting/talent acquisition

• Proven success in the development of talent attraction and retention strategies

• Strong understanding of recruitment laws and practices

• Demonstrated experience with all campus recruiting lifecycle components including sourcing, qualifying and assessing students, networking, university trends and relationship management.

• Proficient in computer programs (i.e. Microsoft Office) and applicant tracking systems (i.e.Workday)

• Strong communication skills including comfort in presenting to large audiences

• Experience working within a large matrix corporate environment

• Analytical thinker with the ability to interpret complex, evolving data to inform decisions

• Success building long-term relationships with clients and business partners

• Experience managing and planning multiple recruitment events and large-scale presentations

• Highly organized with strong project management and multiple-tasking capabilities under tight deadlines

• Demonstrated use of technical applications and social media tools for recruitment such as LinkedIn and Handshake

• Effective in building and maintaining a strong candidate pipeline for open requisitions

• Self-motivated and experienced in working independently within a regional structure

• Proactively recruit and present top talent students to recruiters as needs are identified

• Travel for campus recruitment and regional events will be required throughout the university recruitment cycle to multiple markets (up to 40%). These may require nights and weekends