Associate, Emerging Talent - Global Talent Acquisition

• Build and maintain active relationships with target universities globally, including their careers services, relevant faculty and student societies, ensuring CHAI has a consistent and visible presence at the institutions that matter most. 
• Coordinate CHAI's attendance at university careers events and fairs, organising logistics, preparing materials and representing CHAI directly to students in a way that is engaging and grounded in the CHAI mission. 
• Work with CHAI programme leads and staff who are alumni of target universities, activating them as advocates and speakers and coordinating their involvement in campus activities. 
• Support the end-to-end coordination of CHAI's intern programme, managing the application process, communications, and logistics for each cohort and ensuring every intern has a well-organised, well-supported experience. 
• Maintain a clear pipeline of emerging talent from target institutions, tracking engagement, applications, and outcomes in iCIMS (our ATS) with strong data integrity. 
• Work with the wider TA team to develop and refine CHAI's approach to university partnerships, including which institutions to prioritise and what engagement at each looks like in practice. 
• Liaise with the Brand & Attraction Specialist to ensure CHAI's presence at target universities is consistent with the broader employer brand and that materials are up-to-date and compelling. 
• Produce straightforward reporting on university engagement and intern programme activity for the TA team. 

• Experience in a campus recruiting, university partnerships or early careers role, or a role with significant involvement in events coordination and external relationship management. 
• Comfortable representing an organisation directly to student audiences, with the confidence and interpersonal skills to make CHAI's story land with people who are early in their careers. 
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with experience coordinating programmes or events across multiple stakeholders and locations. 
• Comfortable working with data and tracking tools, able to maintain accurate records and produce clear reporting on engagement activity. 
• An understanding of what good early careers and intern programme management looks like, from application through to the end of a placement. 
• A working knowledge of global health or international development sufficient to speak credibly about CHAI's mission to students and university partners.
• Fluency in both English and French. Portuguese or Spanish is a plus.

Skills and Traits 

Hard Skills

• University and external relationship management, building consistent and productive partnerships with careers services, faculty, and student organisations over time. 
• Events coordination, managing logistics for careers fairs, campus visits and speaking engagements across multiple institutions and geographies. 
• Intern programme coordination, managing cohort communications, schedules, and logistics from application through to completion. 
• ATS management and data integrity, maintaining accurate records of university engagement, applications, and pipeline activity in iCIMS. 
• Content and materials support, working with the Brand & Attraction Specialist to ensure all university-facing materials are current, compelling and on-brand. 

Soft Skills

• Personable and confident in external settings, able to represent CHAI warmly and credibly to students, careers professionals and university partners. 
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, keeping university engagement, intern coordination and reporting all moving at the same time. 
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to identify what needs to happen next without being directed at every step. 
• A genuine interest in early careers and in connecting talented people to meaningful work in global health. 
• A collaborative working style, working closely with programme leads, CHAI alumni and the wider TA team to make the partnerships work in practice. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or recruiting for international NGOs, global health or international development organisations, with an understanding of the mission-driven candidate landscape. 
• Experience working across multiple geographies and with universities in different regions, with an understanding of how student and institutional engagement varies by market.