Duties & Responsibilities

• 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 benefits—including corporate days, “Tech Talks,” and faculty relationship building—to 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.
• Identify, solicit, and schedule speakers for ECE 200 Career Explorations, the department’s 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