Career Services

**ABOUT US**:
HyperionDev is the largest provider of software development education in Southern Africa, and one of the largest globally. Counted among the top education technology startups in EMEA with headquarters in Cape Town and London, we support learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. We are dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap and we achieve this by integrating tech education with human mentorship and expert code review, lowering the cost of accessing tech careers.

In 2017 we won first prize in Facebook's Innovation Challenge, with Facebook selecting us as the most socially impactful startup operating in Africa and financially backing us, alongside Google. In 2020, we closed one of the largest Series A fundraises in South Africa with nearly 1500 investors backing us in the biggest crowdfunding round in history for an Africa-linked startup.

We were originally launched from the University of Cambridge, and our leadership team consists of world-leading talent from companies such as Google, 2U, and Zando. We are looking for team members who are ambitious, motivated and have a track record of over-achieving and exceeding targets.

Join us at a time when we are reinventing tech education and how technology can drive higher quality education at scale for markets that have some of the most underperforming tertiary institutions and schools globally.

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**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
As a Career Services & Corporate Relations Specialist at HyperionDev, you need to provide employability support, skills development, project work and job opportunities to our graduate developers within our customer base. You also need to actively grow and manage the local and international database of employer partner companies by pitching the HyperionDev Career Services and marketing our developer graduates across our current and prospective employer pipelines.

Outcomes:

- Actively grow and manage the local and international database of employer partner companies
- Engage and develop relationships with prospective hiring companies through continuous market research and lead generation
- Ensure employer partner pipelines grow and remain relevant through regular contact
- Understanding the needs and requirements of hiring companies based on knowledge of the technical recruitment industry
- Understanding partners' recruitment cycles
- Ensuring the CRM (Nutshell) is continuously updated and accurate with employers' information as well as continuously updating the CRM tool at each step of the employer pipelines.
- Retrieve feedback from from employers on graduate outcomes
- Driving graduate and employer success stories
- Support and prepare developer graduates' through employability support, skills development, project work and highlighting job opportunities
- Ensure developer graduates' profiles are complete and ready to present to hiring companies
- Actively engage with developer graduates to ensure technical portfolios, resumes and social media profiles are of high quality and meet our standards
- Engage with developer graduates throughout the recruitment cycle to arrange interviews, assessments and feedback
- Provide access to bespoke career development resources that support graduates in honing their professional profiles and portfolios
- Encourage students to create side-projects to fill the non-experience barrier
- Delivery of career advisory 1:1 consultations with graduates
- Regular check-ins, career support and monitoring of Alumni communication platforms
- Offer developer graduates support in order to increase possibility of entry into the workplace
- Constant communication with developer graduates to ensure their information is represented correctly and that they are prepared and willing to join each role that they are interviewed for
- Communicate growth opportunities and remuneration structures to each developer, partner as well as facilitate the information flow of the requirements of each employer partner company
- Ensure developer graduates are ready for interviews - prepared as well as informed - to ensure a seamless selection and recruitment process and excellent hiring company experience
- Provide feedback and updates to developer graduates on a continuous basis

You will need to stay closely up-to-date with industry trends and the job market needs to ensure that we stay one step ahead. To excel in this role, you should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, be a fast learner, and have an eye for detail. You will need to have people skills and the enthusiasm and capacity to upskill as the team scales. You should also be able to collaborate effectively with others and have a genuine interest in education within the EdTech space.

The Career Services & Corporate Relations Specialist will also be working closely with the marketing team to coordinate and report on the effectiveness of top-of-the-funnel lead generation campaigns in order to better target and expand aw