Associate Director, Careers and Student Life

University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business seeks an Associate Director, Careers and Student Life for the MiM and MiF programs. This role partners with the Senior Associate Director to drive employer relationships and offer 1:1 career coaching while helping lead student life and community programming.

You will develop new employer partnerships, coach students through their job search, and co-create workshops and events that foster belonging across the MiM and MiF communities.

Qualifications

• Experience building and managing employer relationships across industries.
• Proven ability to coach students through career exploration, resumes, and interview prep.
• Ability to design and deliver workshops and events for student career development.

Responsibilities

• Identify, target, and develop new employer relationships for MiM and MiF cohorts.
• Conduct outreach to companies and alumni networks to create internships and full-time opportunities.
• Manage a portfolio of employer accounts and maintain regular contact to align with hiring needs.
• Maintain CRM and career management data, and produce pipeline reports.
• Coordinate logistics for employer visits, info sessions, and recruiting events.
• Provide individualized coaching on career exploration, job search strategy, and offer evaluation.

Skills

Employer relationships

Career coaching

Student life programming

CRM management

Education

Master's degree

Tools

CRM systems

Career platforms

Job description

Department

Booth Specialized Master's Program

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:

• -an unmatched faculty.
• -degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
• -a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
• -strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment. For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

The Associate Director, Careers and Student Life plays a central, cross-functional role on the Specialized Masters Programs team, executing employer relations and business development in partnership with the Senior Associate Director, Careers, providing 1:1 career coaching to early-career students, and helping lead student life and community programming for the Master in Management (MiM) and Master in Finance (MiF) programs.

The careers-focused work is the highest-priority function of this role, requiring a proactive, outward-facing professional who can identify and cultivate new employer relationships, drive recruiting activity, and build a sustainable pipeline of opportunities for students across the Master in Management (MiM) and Master in Finance (MiF) programs. Simultaneously, the Associate Director provides independent career coaching to early-career students navigating career exploration and the job search. On the student life side, this role helps drive community and belonging across the programs, partnering with students, including shepherding the Student Community Council. This is a high-impact, relationship-driven role suited to someone who is entrepreneurial, adept at navigating ambiguity and equally comfortable coaching a student one-on-one and building a new employer relationship from scratch.

This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored employment authorization.

Responsibilities

• Partners with the Senior Associate Director, Careers to proactively identify, target, and develop new employer relationships across industries relevant to MiM and MiF students, with particular attention to underpenetrated sectors and geographies.
• Conducts sustained outreach to companies, search firms, and alumni-affiliated organizations to generate internship and full-time opportunities, employer-hosted events, and recruiting activity.
• Manages and grows an assigned portfolio of employer accounts, maintaining regular contact, understanding hiring needs, and building recruiting plans that connect companies to the right students.
• Gathers and shares market intelligence with the Careers SME, fellow coaches, and program leadership, and maintains accurate, up-to-date records in the team's CRM and career management platforms.
• Maintains CRM and career management platforms with the Careers SME and produces regular pipeline and activity reports.
• Coordinates logistics for employer visits, info sessions, and recruiting events.
• Provides individualized coaching to MiM and MiF students on career exploration, goal-setting, job search strategy, and offer evaluation.
• Coaches students on effectively positioning their graduate education and prior experience, including resumes, LinkedIn, and professional narrative.
• Develops students' networking skills and confidence, and prepares them for interviews across behavioral, case, and technical formats, through mock interviews and targeted feedback.
• Identifies students who may need additional coaching support, proactively following up and connecting them to appropriate resources.
• Designs programs and interactive workshops to be delivered through the program, providing guidance and resources to students' recruiting journeys.
• Manages scheduling and logistics for workshops and mock interview programs.
• Serves as a key partner to students, including the Student