[Hiring] Director of University Relations and Student Programs @Ivy Rehab

Role Description

The Director of University Relations & Student Programs serves as a talent acquisition leader accountable for designing, scaling, and operationalizing Ivy Rehab's national early-career clinical recruitment engine. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Talent Acquisition, this leader bridges academic partnerships and regional clinical operations across 14+ states and multiple clinical brands (adult outpatient PT, pediatric therapy, and specialty clinics).

Primary accountability includes:

• Architecting a dedicated campus recruiting function.
• Scaling the student placement program.
• Formalizing clinical rotation conversions.
• Spearheading high-impact university and state association events.
• Managing recruitment technologies and analytics to consistently build robust talent pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Healthcare Administration, Business, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive talent acquisition, university relations, or early-career program leadership experience.
• 3+ years of direct people management experience with proven capability to lead, develop, and inspire remote/hybrid teams.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting graduate-level clinical talent (PT, OT, SLP, Nursing, or allied health) within a competitive outpatient or health system environment.
• Demonstrated history of budgeting, planning, and executing multi-tier conference booths, state chapter sponsorships, and university recruitment tours.
• Expertise with modern ATS platforms (Jobvite, Greenhouse, or Workday), CRM nurture tools, Handshake, and business intelligence reporting.
• Experience building strong relationships with universities in multiple states.
• Willingness to travel 30%–35% during peak academic recruiting and conference seasons.
• Experience in a high growth, fast-paced environment highly preferred.
• Ability to proactively assess program successes and opportunities of improvement, and make recommendations on how to highlight or adjust respectively.

Requirements

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Participate in special projects as required.

Benefits

• We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the recruiting and employment process.
• Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and organizational need.
• Any listed salary range or contractual rate does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay, or other forms of compensation or benefits.