Program Specialist - Global Education and Training-Shanghai Office (116229)
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Champaign, IL
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Job Details
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
ILLINOIS INTERNATIONAL
GLOBAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING – SHANGHAI OFFICE
PROGRAM SPECIALIST
12 month 100% Position
Illinois is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. We serve the state, the nation, and the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and addressing critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge. Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. Illinois is especially interested in candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the Illinois community.
Opened in December 2013, the Shanghai Office operates as a natural extension of the University’s longstanding relationship to China, serving students, faculty, staff, and alumni through outreach, protocol support, and career services.
The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.
The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.
Primary Position Function/Summary:
Manage the day-to-day operations for the university’s office located in Shanghai, China. This includes coordinating with the University of Illinois main campus office and assisting Global Education and Training, Illinois International, and other campus constituents with schedules, events, programs, outreach, strategy, and general support. Help identify key companies and partners to target for student and alumni career placements. Help cultivate successful relationships between top companies and key campus stakeholders. This position is part of a partnership between the University of Illinois and the State of Illinois China Office located at the U.S. Commercial Center at Shanghai. This position will report to the Director of Global Education and Training, who works primarily from the Urbana campus.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
• Assist University of Illinois colleagues in building strong relationships with government agencies, alumni and corporate partners in China.
• Utilize and build on current relationships with alumni and corporations to help place recent graduates and alumni in the China job market.
• Plan, organize and coordinate events and activities that support the mission of the office. Responsibilities include selecting vendors and venues, communicating with target audiences and ensuring the event is within budget. Assist the leadership of the Shanghai Office in evaluating the event effectiveness and planning future programs.
• Work closely with the home office and visiting delegations from campus to help with logistics and presentations of its annual pre-departure orientations for incoming students.
• Strengthen the presence and network of the University of Illinois in China by representing the University in meetings, seminars, recruitment fairs, information sessions, professional organizations and conferences, and making formal presentations as appropriate.
• Work with the University home office and external vendors to design targeted marketing materials in both English and Chinese to serve various activities such as alumni relations, student placement, and development.
• Organize special events to build a platform for corporations to access recent graduates for job openings and in-country orientations for new students.
• Manage the communication channels with key contacts.
• Support social media campaigns to enhance the University’s online presence in China.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree
• 1 year of relevant work experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both English and Chinese.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Customer oriented, detail oriented, highly organized.
• Strong team player, demonstrated interpersonal skills, demonstrated experience in working in a global team environment.
• Comfortable working both independently and with a team to advance the priorities of the University of Illinois.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s degree
• 2 years of experience in marketing, human resources, or business.
• Proven ability to work with vendors to manage events and programs independently.
• Proven ability to identify key stakeholders quickly, make connections creatively and maintain relationships in a timely and effective manner.
• Proven ability to manage databases, and intermediate graphic design and social media knowledge.
• Passionate about the University of Illinois and its development in China.
• Demonstrated cultural sensitivity, such as through living or studying abroad or working with people from other cultures.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and implement strategic oriented activities and special programs. Strong team player, demonstrated interpersonal skills, demonstrated experience in working in a global team environment.
Salary: Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Start Date: The position will start as soon as possible after the close date.
Application Procedures:
In order to ensure full consideration, please complete your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of interest, resume, and contact information for three professional references by 07/09/2019. All requested information must be submitted for your application to be considered. Applicants are encouraged to specifically relate their backgrounds and experience to the requirements of the position as outlined above.
Contact:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois International
507 E. Green St, Suite 409, MC-417
Champaign, IL 61820
email: iip-hr@illinois.edu
Organization
Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.
Faculty
A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.
Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.
Academic Resources
Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.
Research
Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Undergraduate Education
The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.
Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.
The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.
Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.
The Arts
A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture.
Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.
Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices
Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/
As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.
Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices
Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.
How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?
Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.
Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.
Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.
It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.
It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.
Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities
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