Campus Recruiting Specialist - Vet Tech Programs (Remote)

Alliance Animal Health is a fast-growing private equity backed, Veterinary Service Organization that operates as a majority owner and business partner to many veterinarian practices across the US. Our goal is to make it easier for our practices at every step by providing world-class business solutions like talent acquisition, marketing, human resources, finance, and operations, so that they can focus their energy on providing incredible care for animals. In fact, our Core Values are (quite literally) written with PETS in mind: Passion, Engagement, Trust and Service. 

We want our doctor partners to choose what's best for their practice because they are the experts in medicine, while we customize the support, the co-ownership approach, and business solutions based on their goals. We pride ourselves on maintaining a culture of open communication and collaboration to deliver innovative solutions to advance today's veterinary environment - without disrupting the medical autonomy and what makes each of our hospitals unique.  Because at the end of the day, our central support team exists to serve our practices. So, if you're excited about using your talents to make an impact on the health and wellness of pets - we'd love to talk with you!

The Vet TechCampus Recruiting Specialist will work directly with the Director of Student Programs and partner with our Support Staff Recruiting team, Regional Operations team, and hospital leaders to anticipate and meet the continuously evolving veterinary staffing needs of our hospital network. This role will be responsible for developing and executing a Campus Recruiting strategy focused on veterinary technician students. The position will engage with current veterinary technician students, some DVM veterinary campus events (as needed) through various on-campus and virtual initiatives. The VT Campus Specialist will nurture relationships to eventually bring candidates on board at one of our practices as a veterinary technician student extern and then eventually an active career opportunity candidate. The position will maintain and continue to build ongoing relationships with our veterinary technician program university partners. The position will also have significant interaction with our regional managers and hospital leaders (doctor partners and practice managers) across each practice in our network. Join us and work in a collaborative environment, leveraging your strong network skills, sales experience, excellent sourcing expertise and customer service to find the very best veterinarian talent for our partner hospitals.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Full involvement in the consultation and recruiting process of veterinary technician students: from outreach to consultation to engaging as a career opportunity candidate, through to the start date.
• Assist in developing and implementing strategic university initiatives for recruiting diverse technician student talent across our multi-state network.
• Coordinate and help schedule interviews; provide communication summary of candidate conversations to both partner hospital and Regional Management Team
• Collaborate with Support Staff Recruiting team and Director of Student Programs to focus on schools located in states where AAH is expanding or currently located.
• Qualify potential technician student candidates for geography preference, hospital preferences (for larger university programs that may not be local)
• Engage and frequently communicate with community college/university faculty network to maintain strong ties with the schools.
• Connect and build relationships with AVMA accredited veterinary technician programs to ensure AAH is as involved as possible (partner with Regional Manager team/Practice Managers to help coordinate for local event participation)
• Advertise and manage open technician student externship position requisitions across industry hiring platforms on behalf of practices. (Includes local community colleges)
• Regular follow up with respective practice managers, partner veterinarians and Regional Managers to ensure timeliness of the externship and recruitment process.
• Technician student community consultation and outreach to engage externship and career opportunity candidates.
• Help continue to build and maintain a robust Applicant Tracking System and Recruiting CRM with relevant metrics and candidate data.
• Engage in all technician student staffing related activities and externships and participate as needed in cross functional projects.
• Oversee and manage the planning and execution of all veterinary technician program events/activities in partnership with the Director of Student Programs (presentations, social outings with students, and career fairs)
• Responsible for career fairs and any technician campus-related event registration and travel coordination as needed.
• Up to 50% travel may be expected during peak travel times.

Exempt Position

Salary: Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Compensation will consist of a base salary and performance-based variable pay opportunities. We also offer a robust set of medical, non-medical and retirement benefits that we encourage our employees to take advantage of.

Skillset

• Strong communication and team building
• Social Media experience
• Comfortable and confident with giving presentations to large groups about AAH and our veterinary technician student programs (virtually or in-person)
• Energetic, friendly, motivated, self-starter
• Highly organized and able to manage time effectively. Able to work independently, remotely and with a team.
• Ability to think creatively and market: think outside of the box to set us apart and/or catch a candidate's attention.
• Prior Campus Recruiting experience for a multi-site operator in the veterinary, dental or medical industries preferred.
• CVT, LVT or RVT license required.
• Persuasiveness- When engaging a potential new candidate, you actively listen and tailor your approach to specific candidates or specific needs while understanding the limits of persuasion vs being pushy.
• Self-starter that is excited to work in an entrepreneurial environment and can take initiative while still being part of a team environment.
• Professional in-person and phone presence is required, and industry knowledge preferred to help communicate our hospitals and value propositions favorably to students who are likely considering multiple opportunities.
• Previous experience pipelining specific roles and capabilities as well as building and nurturing relationships and talent pools in service of future hiring needs.
• Must live within 50 miles of a major airport.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.
• POSITIVE attitude is KEY!!!

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