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Job Description  

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. 

Summary

The Manager, Diversity Talent Engagement Marketing & Events is a leader focused on attracting a pipeline of diverse talent across Discover through diversity partnership engagement and marketing activities. They are responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating strategic activities including: campaign development, strategic recommendations, sourcing, and event planning. They will enhance our sourcing strategy diversity candidate outreach, so it expertly aligns with our employer brand position.

Responsibilities

National and Local Diversity Candidate Engagement: Leads the communications and events strategies for the team including events, activities and strategic communications across channels.

• Design activities to increase brand awareness and attract a pipeline of diverse talent

• Diversity outreach is a key component to the strategy. Manage community outreach and partnerships with public, private and nonprofit organizations helping advance diversity recruitment, building repeatable programs/partnerships that create pipelines as new sourcing channels

• Work with local ERGs to amplify Discover stories in the community and determine which outreach efforts can provide the most talent acquisition yield

• Manage expense forecasting and billing to ensure quality and accuracy of efforts

Marketing Campaign Integration: Leverage key community events as activation tentpoles part of broader integrated campaigns to drive brand engagement pre, during and post events

Continuously innovate marketing and event plans based on results and ROI

• Consider local market media efforts needed to improve Discover’s position as a sought after employer

• Work with agency partners to optimize campaign efforts increasing engagements, click through rates and applications

• Conduct baseline industry, competitive, and candidate research to develop comprehensive and compelling business cases for new marketing initiatives or enhancements to the existing initiatives

• Develop diversity events scorecard for talent attraction efforts. Outlining application to hire ratios and establishing projections for outreach needs based on historical conversion rates and diversity goals

Relationship Management: Act as a liaison to diversity organizations externally, performing analysis to deliver data-driven candidate attraction activities and manage sourcing requests

• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders (e.g., Employee Resource Groups, DE&I, Community Affairs, business units, and TA partners, etc.) to advance recruitment outreach and engagement in alignment with Discover’s D&I goals

• Manage relationships with key diversity partners externally, working closely to ensure Discover’s goals and the organizations’ goals are aligned

Candidate Experience:

• Identify new ways to leverage data and information to drive insights and better understand candidates’ experiences

• Regularly communicate status to relevant internal parties; and presents findings to leadership

Promote a risk-aware culture, ensure efficient and effective risk and compliance management practices by adhering to required standards and processes of equal employment.

Preferred Qualifications 

If we had our say, we’d also look for: 

·  6+ years of experience cultivating relationships with diversity partners

·  6+ years of event management experience, diversity events preferred

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.