Temporary Career and Co-Op Specialist

Who We Are:

Are you ready to work at a dynamic institution that believes in higher education with lower obstacles? Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (now known as Franklin Cummings Tech) is a nationally accredited non-profit, technical college serving Eastern Massachusetts and beyond. The college was seeded in 1791 with funds from the estate of Benjamin Franklin given to the City of Boston to proliferate access to education and level the playing field for aspiring talent with meager financial means. 

Today, Franklin Cummings Tech continues to build on that legacy by offering post-secondary education in high-demand technical and skilled trade fields that lead to excellent careers. Our majors intentionally focus on select industries connected to sustainability and the clean energy transition including electric vehicle technology, smart manufacturing, practical electricity, power engineering, heat pumps/HVAC, biotechnology, automation, construction management, and more. 

With a mission to deliver transformative technical and trade education that leads to economic advancement, we offer a unique mix of certificate and degree-granting programs that appeal to enterprising students and respond to employer’s demand for a well-prepared workforce. Intentional partnerships with the industries we serve coupled with high graduation and job placement rates, recently attracted the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the college from the Cummings Foundation. 

Last year, Franklin Cummings Tech educated more than 1,000 learners across three student types: 1) certificate and degree seekers, 2) continuing education clients, and 3) high schoolers pursuing early college. As further evidence that our mission holds resonance, this year the college tracked a 25% year-over-year jump in fall new student enrollment and applications soared.

We seek team members who are optimistic, entrepreneurial, data-informed, and excited about the prospect of continuing to strategically increase student success outcomes and total enrollment from 1,000 learners today to at least 1,500 learners by 2030. Join us in this mission-driven work!

Position Summary:

The Temporary Full-Time Career and Co-op Specialist plays a central role in ensuring that students at the college have a positive outcome once they graduate. The Specialist helps lead career events, engages recent graduates, and works with students to become job ready. In addition, the Specialist supports institutional employer engagement, so that more employers successfully interview, hire, and retain students and recent graduates as part of their workforce.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

The following duties are representative of the work performed in this position. Other duties may be assigned based on organizational needs.

Event Management:

• Manage logistics of the Career Fairs and Showcases, including student and employer recruitment and registration, faculty engagement, student preparation, and company/student flow
• Support the implementation of our Co-op Interview Day and Co-op Match Day 
• Develop standard project management system through Microsoft Project Planner

Recent Alumni Engagement:

• Manage outcomes related to alumni placement, including: 
• Career Outcomes Survey to track job placement of recent alumni
• Outreach to graduates by 6-month and 12-month deadlines
• City of Boston reporting for Green Jobs grant 

Student Job Readiness:

• Execute the strategy for collecting resumes from 90% of our degree and certificate (i.e. core) students 
• Build out and maintain the Job Opportunity spreadsheets per major
• Support the SOS class for PE and HVAC to ensure student readiness

Student Workers:

• Ensure the ongoing productivity of the two student workers as they work on alumni-related efforts
• Train and support student workers as they create and post social media stories

Co-op Oversight:

• Manage the paperwork process for employers who hire co-op students in HVAC and PE and suggest improvements
• Support the students in HVAC and PE on their co-ops, including the biweekly check ins and site visits
• Represent the Career and Co-op team at Discovery Days and Orientations

Employer Opportunities:

• Recruit and support students in National Grid academies
• Connect HVAC/PE students to career opportunities, prep students, and track results

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of work experience at a high-performance organization in project management, systems building, and continuous improvement 
• Associate’s degree or higher required

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proven systems-building experience
• Proven event and project management skills
• Experience supporting students
• Excellent collaborative skills
• Detail-oriented
• Results-driven and dependable
• Strong listening skills
• Integrity 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Excited to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment
• Passionate about the college mission and working in a diverse environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a career placement database such as Handshake 
• Experience with a SIS or complex CRM such as Salesforce or Jenzabar
• Bachelor’s Degree 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Requirements:

Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Work Environment:

• The role is four days a week in the office of Boston Franklin Cummings Tech Roxbury Campus.
• Most of the work is 9am to 5pm, with occasional evening events. 
• The Specialist will also visit employers for site visits. 

Employee Expectations:

All employees are expected to support the college’s student-centered mission, contribute to institutional growth and innovation, and collaborate across departments to improve student recruitment, retention, graduation, and career placement outcomes. 

Our college is an in-person institution. Campus presence is the default expectation for all employees. In-person presence remains the expectation and the standard for all staff. Flex arrangements are a discretionary privilege, not a right, and may be modified or discontinued if it is determined that flex arrangements are diminishing service quality, team cohesion, or responsiveness to students, external partners, and colleagues. The student experience and fidelity of institutional operations take priority over individual schedule preferences.

The salary for this position is $65,000.00 

Please note: Franklin Cummings Tech is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States on an ongoing basis without sponsorship to be considered for this position at Franklin Cummings Tech.

Franklin Cummings Tech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.