Senior Associate Director, External Relations

NYU Stern School of Business; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

New York University Stern School of Business is seeking a Senior Associate Director, External Relations, on the Careers team in New York City. You will manage employer relationships, advise on recruitment strategies, and coordinate events and interviews to align with school processes and timelines.

You will collaborate with employers, students, and internal career coaches, driving outreach initiatives, information sessions, and industry events while leveraging alumni networks to uncover

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; five+ years in HR, career counseling, recruitment, admissions, corporate relations, or related field.
• Experience in business development including account management and client relations.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, project management, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt based on business needs and work independently to achieve goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of employer relationships across key industries.
• Advise employers on recruitment strategies and coordinate events and interviews.
• Liaise between employers, students, and internal career coaches to manage expectations and logistics.
• Develop targeted outreach to cultivate new employer relationships and opportunities.
• Leverage alumni networks and market trends to drive employer engagement and pipeline-building.

Skills

Relationship management

Recruitment strategy

Project management

Communication

Independent work

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CRM software

Job description

NYU’s Stern School of Business has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate Director, External Relations, on the Careers team. The selected candidate will manage a portfolio of employer relationships across some of the school’s most critical industries. They will serve as both a strategic advisor and operational partner to companies, overseeing the end-to-end execution of recruiting efforts. The Senior Associate Director will advise employers on recruitment strategies, coordinate events and interviews, and ensure alignment with school processes and timelines.The selected candidate will liaise between employers, students, and internal career coaches to communicate expectations, manage logistics, and surface insights to improve the recruiting experience for all parties. They will develop and implement a targeted outreach strategy to cultivate new employer relationships and uncover job opportunities for Stern MBA students. The Senior Associate Director will leverage alumni networks, track market trends, and initiate employer-focused engagement initiatives such as information sessions, industry events, and pipeline-building conversations.

The selected candidate must have a bachelor’s degree and at least five years of professional-level experience in human resources, career counseling, recruitment, admissions, corporate relations, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The candidate must have experience in business development, including account management, client relationship management, sales, or related functions, and demonstrate the ability to cultivate and maintain relationships, with experience developing new external partnerships while strengthening and optimizing established ones. Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building, project management, platform, communication, and organizational skills are required. The candidate must also have the ability to adapt based on business needs and work independently to achieve goals.

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $95,000.00 to USD $115,000.00. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.

New York University Stern School of Business, located in the heart of Greenwich Village and deeply connected with the City for which it is named, is one of the nation’s premier management education schools and research centers. NYU Stern offers a broad portfolio of transformational programs at the graduate, undergraduate and executive levels, all of them enriched by the dynamism and deep resources of one of the world’s business capitals. NYU Stern is a welcoming community that inspires its members to embrace and lead change in a rapidly transforming world.

For more information about working at NYU please visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/about/careers-at-nyu.html

NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040. Learn more at nyu.edu/nyugreen.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply at all levels.