Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) was founded in 1963 as one of the first nonprofit mentoring organizations for students of color in New York City. In 1980, SEO created the Career Program, which introduces the nation's most talented underrepresented undergraduates of color to summer internships in investment banking, sales & trading, investment research, asset management, corporate finance, accounting, transaction services, corporate law, information technology and nonprofit. Additional information about the Career Program: www.seo-usa.org/career
Purpose
The Summer Program Coordinator is responsible for the support of SEO Career Program interns. The Summer Program Coordinator serves as a liaison to partner companies and is responsible for projects as determined and supervised by the Managing Director and Director of the Career Program.
The ideal candidate will be a team player with a background in business/finance who can take a leadership role in assigned areas and is skilled at interacting with various constituents.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Guide a cohort of interns through the internship experience to help them get a full-time offer (in Banking or in Finance)
- Maintain dialogue with partner companies to get feedback on intern performance
- Attend and participate in summer training and networking events
- Help interns prepare questions for events
- Speak to each intern in cohort at least once per week to drive accountability
Standards/Expectations
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with all constituents
- Counsel and provide feedback to assigned SEO interns from acceptance, through training and throughout the summer
- Analyze and report on outcomes
- Identify and implement strategies to develop strong partner company relationships including programming
- Coordinate, develop, and implement Career Program activities, programming, special projects and assignments
- Model the values and principles that SEO expects of its interns and employees throughout the summer
Requirements
- Commitment to the mission of SEO (SEO alumni preferred)
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of 2 years professional work experience in banking/business/finance/consulting
- Strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task, and handle changing priorities
- Strong written and oral communication skills (Sound judgment, professionalism and discretion)
- Ability to have difficult conversations to give honest, productive feedback
- Experience with Excel
- Ability and desire to motivate college students to relate effectively within corporate cultures
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, colleagues, clients, alumni, and senior staff members
- Ability and willingness to work some nights and weekends as dictated by programming needs
