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Coordinator of Corporate Relations or Assistant Director of Corporate Relations

Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Grainger College of Engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering seeks

applicants for a Coordinator of Corporate Relations or Assistant Director of Corporate Relations position.

The Coordinator of Corporate Relations is responsible for coordinating the effort to identify, develop,

manage, and steward strategic relationships with corporate entities for ECE. The Assistant Director of

Corporate Relations is responsible for identifying, developing, managing, and stewarding strategic

relationships with corporate entities for ECE. The position will be responsible for ECEs involvement in The

Corporate Connection and Power Affiliate Program, and will serve as the primary liaison with corporations

for donations, gifts, recruiting, visits, and student organization support.

Duties for each are the following, but can vary based on position title and level:

Assist the Director and Department Head with moving companies through the engagement

pipeline: identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.

o Support college staff and department leadership in their efforts to secure funding from

corporations to support faculty and students in areas such as diversity and pre-college

programming, student programming, senior design, scholarships, and facilities.

o Coordinate the stewardship efforts for corporate donors, including the collaboration for

planning and executing recognition and announcement events.

o Work collaboratively with staff in the College of Engineering Office for Research and

Advancement Office and with corporate relations colleagues in other key areas across

the college and campus.

Manage memberships for The Corporate Connection industry affiliates program in cooperation

with the Department of Computer Science.

o Serve as liaison to corporate sponsors in The Corporate Connection industry affiliates

program, helping them leverage their benefitsincluding corporate days, Tech Talks,

and faculty relationship buildingto achieve their on-campus student recruitment

goals.

o Coordinate annual renewal process for existing sponsors and solicits new sponsors for

The Corporate Connection.

o Work in collaboration with Computer Science colleagues for The Corporate Connection

After Hours career fair each semester.

Serve as the primary point of contact for all ECE-related corporate inquiries coming from both

external organizations and from within the university.

o Build robust connections with corporate contacts, partnering with advancement

colleagues, faculty, and student leaders to strategically include alumni/donor prospects

in corporate engagement efforts.

o Coordinate schedules for corporate visitors and identify opportunities to build and

strengthen relationships between the department/college/campus and corporate

partners.

At the direction of the Director and Department Head, execute strategies and implement

programs for corporate engagement in ECE that support department and college goals,

coordinating with administrators, faculty, students, and corporate relations and advancement

colleagues as appropriate.

Support the Power Affiliates Program (PAP) in coordination with faculty in the Power Group.

o Serve as primary contact for PAP members.

o Annually, invoice the companies and track payments.

o Assist in modifying program benefits to accommodate agency-specific constraints.

o Communicate program benefits and facilitate utilization.

Identi fy, solicit, and schedule speakers for ECE 200 Career Explorations, the departments

undergraduate honors seminar series.

Work with student leaders and clubs to identify and solicit corporate support of student events

and activities.

o Invoice, and process payments for, all sponsorship and gift funds from corporate

partners to RSOs.

o Work with student officers and others in the unit to facilitate logistics and operational

details for large, complex events sponsored by ten to twelve student organizations

supported by ECE which are major student recruitment opportunities.

Assume additional appropriate corporate relations related duties to further the mission of the

department.

Coordinator of Corporate Relations

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelors degree in business administration, communications, human resources, marketing,

public relations or a related field.

2. A total of two (2) years (24 months) of work experience in