**Employer Relations Specialist** **Job Locations:** Brazil (Remote) **Functional Department:** Sales **Type:** Regular, Full\-Time **Working hours:** 8:30 am – 5:30 pm CST **Vision:** Transforming how the world discovers, develops, and unleashes cyber talent. **Mission:** We’re not just filling skills gaps—we’re redefining how companies hire, grow, and retain the people who power their security future. At QuickStart, we are committed to upholding the following core values: **P\*assion \|**R**espect \|** A**ccountability \|** I**nnovation \|** S**peed \|** E**xecution \[** PRAISE\* ] **Overview**: The **Employer Relations Specialist** serves as the strategic connection point between QuickStart graduates, Career Services, employer partners, and workforce hiring initiatives. This role is responsible for developing and managing employer partnerships that create direct hiring pathways for graduates while helping strengthen QuickStart’s employer ecosystem and workforce intelligence capabilities. This individual will proactively identify employers, build relationships with recruiters and hiring managers, coordinate outreach campaigns, maintain employer engagement systems, and support graduate placement outcomes through partnership\-driven hiring opportunities. The role also acts as a collaborative bridge between the Career Readiness team and the organization’s growing B2B workforce technology and hiring intelligence initiatives to ensure employer feedback, talent demand, and graduate readiness remain aligned in a continuous talent pipeline. **Responsibilities** include but are not limited to: **Employer Partnership Development** · Identify, research, and prioritize employers aligned with QuickStart graduate skill sets · Build relationships with recruiters, hiring managers, HR leaders, and workforce development partners · Conduct proactive outreach through LinkedIn, email campaigns, networking, events, and direct engagement · Develop and maintain long\-term employer partnerships that support recurring hiring opportunities · Coordinate discovery calls and employer intake conversations to understand hiring needs **Graduate Placement \& Employer Matching** · Connect qualified graduates with employer opportunities · Share candidate profiles and coordinate introductions between graduates and hiring teams · Collaborate with Career Readiness staff to align graduates with employer demand · Support interview coordination and employer follow\-up activities · Track interviews, hiring outcomes, and employer engagement metrics **Employer Relationship Management** · Maintain and oversee a centralized employer partnership tracking system and graduate/employer directory · Ensure employer outreach, engagement history, job opportunities, and placement outcomes are accurately documented · Monitor employer engagement pipelines and identify opportunities for deeper partnerships · Help establish reporting cadence and partnership performance metrics **Cross\-Functional Collaboration** · Serve as a liaison between Career and the B2B workforce technology/hiring intelligence team · Share employer hiring trends and market intelligence with internal stakeholders · Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Academics, and Career Services on employer\-facing initiatives · Support employer feedback loops that help improve student readiness and program alignment · Coordinate with the workforce solutions sales team on strategic employer relationships and hiring opportunities **Outreach \& Brand Representation** · Execute employer outreach messaging and campaigns using approved communication templates and materials · Represent QuickStart professionally in employer\-facing interactions · Promote QuickStart graduates and career programs to prospective employer partners · Help strengthen QuickStart’s reputation as a trusted source of emerging technical talent **Minimum Qualifications:** **Education** * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience **Minimum Knowledge and Experience** * 3\+ years of experience in employer relations, business development, recruiting, workforce development, account management, or career services. * Proven ability to build and manage employer partnerships, outreach campaigns, and stakeholder relationships. * Experience using CRM platforms, LinkedIn, and other sales or employer engagement tools to manage pipelines and track KPIs. * Strong organizational, communication, and cross\-functional collaboration skills with a results\-driven mindset. * Experience in higher education, EdTech, workforce development, staffing, or talent acquisition is preferred. * Familiarity with technical hiring and talent pipelines for Cybersecurity, IT, Software Engineering, or Data Analytics is a plus. **Success Metrics / KPIs** * Number of employer partnerships established * Employer response and engagement rates * Discovery calls completed * Candidate profiles shared * Interviews generated * Graduate hires attributed to employer partnersh