Assistant Director, Alumni Engagement & Marketing Berkeley Career Engagement

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Employment Type

Location:

Main Campus-Berkeley

Full Time

At the University of California, Berkeley, we are dedicated to fostering a community where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. Our culture of openness, freedom, and belonging makes it a special place for students, faculty, and staff, who are among the most talented and accomplished anywhere, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Mac Arthur Fellows. Since our founding in 1868, we have been an engine for innovation - driving intellectual, economic, and social progress that benefits California, the U.S., and beyond.

Together, we change the world.

At Berkeley, the best careers are built on a foundation of continuous learning and growth. We actively support professional development by providing all full-time staff employees with at least 80 hours of paid time per year and provide space for supportive colleague communities via numerous employee resource groups.

We invite applicants who are inspired by our Principles of Community and who are eager to be part of our exciting Strategic Plan, which charts Berkeley's next era of excellence.

Learn more about some of our accomplishments at Points of Pride.

Berkeley Career Engagement (BCE) plays a critical role in preparing and supporting students launching their careers. We help undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent alumni make informed decisions about their futures by providing comprehensive resources, programs, career counseling, externships and internships, and employment and professional school / graduate school options.

Our Vision is to cultivate a university-wide culture of career readiness, where every student engages in meaningful experiences, has a supportive professional community, and is empowered to achieve lifelong career success. We are dedicated to advancing equity and access to career resources for every student and recent alum of UC Berkeley.

We engage with students on their journey to reflect, discover, and design a personally meaningful career (Career Clarity). We connect students with alumni, employers, and their larger professional community to forge meaningful relationships that will guide them into their early career (Career Connections). We empower students to develop the professional confidence and experience necessary to secure the career opportunities they seek (Career Competitiveness).

The Assistant Director, Alumni Employer Engagement & Marketing identifies and cultivates job and internship opportunities for students as part of the Employer Relations unit of Berkeley Career Engagement (BCE). This position engages with alumni, employers, campus staff, and students through a variety of programs and initiatives to generate opportunities for students. The Assistant Director, Alumni Employer Engagement & Marketing focuses on creating engagement activities with alumni and employers that support the development of internship and job opportunities, which may include large-scale and intimate networking events.

Additionally, this position provides career development workshops and presentations to students to help prepare them for future internships and job opportunities and oversees the outreach and engagement strategy as it relates to BCE programs and services across written, visual, digital and electronic platforms.

The First Review Date for this job is:
September 24, 2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

• Establishes new relationships and maintains current ones with employers, which may include visiting employers at their workplace to establish working relationships that will generate jobs and internships.
• Engages with alumni to provide opportunities for them to meet with and provide guidance to current students. Maintains established alumni relationships and builds up a network of new alumni to add as contacts that can be a resource for events. Works with CAA (California Alumni Association), UDAR and other relevant alumni groups to strategically leverage alumni from targeted industries.
• Maintains a list of contacts in different areas of expertise, alumni or otherwise, who could be contacts for events held by BCE or other departments.
• Provides regular updates to established contacts about BCE, upcoming events and how they could be involved.
• Serves as the lead for an assigned industry group,…