University Relations Lead: Experienced

Job Description

About the Position

This role sits within our Recruiting team and is responsible for leading the development and execution of our campus recruitment and external partnership strategy in the European market. In addition to developing the strategy, the person in this role will spend significant time building relationships with universities and external partners, planning campus events, and building the Jane Street brand in places where we are less well known.

Responsibilities:

• Thinking holistically about the firm’s campus recruiting goals.
• Developing and improving our campus plan each academic year, including coordinating all internal and external campus events, programs, and activities.
• Maintaining and strengthening our existing relationships with career services and university contacts, and connecting with new schools to develop relationships.
• Maintaining Jane Street’s on-campus brand recognition, and finding innovative ways to make it even stronger.
• Managing campus sponsorships and making conscious decisions about how to allocate the firm’s resources.
• Working with our New York and Hong Kong recruiting teams to ensure global continuity across the firm.
• Identifying and implementing recruitment strategies at new universities and programs to ensure we’re seeing a strong, diverse pipeline of campus talent.
• Developing analytics and reporting to measure how effective our existing strategies are, and help us think about what we can be doing better or differently.
• Bringing creative new ideas to the table on what we should be doing in campus recruiting.

About You

• 7-10+ years of hands-on campus recruiting experience.
• Vision to improve and grow our campus recruitment strategy, and a plan to get us there.
• Proactive and self-motivated with strong organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to handle competing priorities and work effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Humble attitude about what you know and don’t know; not afraid to ask questions and admit mistakes.
• Positive, professional attitude and presence.
• Meticulous attention to detail.