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Workforce Development Associate

Indiana CPA Society
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Workforce Development Associate 

Summary:   Under the direction of the VP – Pipeline & Outreach, the Workforce Development Associate plays a crucial role in advancing the Indiana CPA Society's workforce development initiatives, with a primary focus on recruiting, retaining, and engaging a pipeline of students and members. This role involves relationship-building and outreach efforts targeted at high school and college students, educators, and various stakeholders to promote accounting as a profession of opportunity. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

Key Responsibilities:

High School: 

  • Works with VP – Pipeline & Outreach to develop presentation materials and messaging that resonates with the high school audience.
  • Plays a key role in growing high school student membership and executes strategies to identify and promote member benefits to high school students, educators and parents.          
  • Primarily responsible for planning and coordination of INCPAS CPA Week—including scheduling classroom presentations, booking volunteer speakers and preparing and distributing all event collateral. 
  • Collaborates with the Center for Audit Quality’s Accounting+ team to incorporate programming (Everfi expansion), marketing and research into the Indiana market. 
  • Assists with dual enrollment and apprenticeship initiatives.
  • Assists with the INCPAS Scholars program (yearlong career awareness and mentoring program) planning and execution including managing mentors, supervising students, planning events and coordinating with sponsoring organizations. 
  • Collaborates with NABA Inc. to support the ACAP program and other student focused initiatives.

 

College/University:

  • Works with VP – Pipeline & Outreach to develop presentation materials and messaging that resonates with the college audience.
  • Plays a key role in growing college student membership and executes strategies to identify and promote member benefits to students and educators. 
  • Stays up-to-date on CPA Exam and licensure news/procedures and serves as the Society contact for CPA Exam and initial licensure questions.
  • Attends various campus events (career fairs, campus presentation, meetings) and delivers presentations to promote opportunities in accounting and the CPA profession and the Indiana CPA Society and its partnering organizations. 
  • Assists with the Meet the Profession Leadership Series (scheduling speakers, working with communications to promote the events, and oversees the Meet the Profession Night event).
  • Assists with college student events such as Partner Chats and firm/company visits (planning, staffing and promoting). 
  • Develops and oversees the Student Ambassador Program.
  • Coordinates the publication of the INCPAS Employer Guide.
  • Assists with the Indiana CPA Educational Foundation, its scholarship programs and fundraising. 

 

Academia/Educators:

  • Supports educator members -- recruitment of new members, engagement of existing members.
  • Assists with the planning of the Educators Conference.
  • Supports Indiana colleges/universities with accounting advisory board needs.
  • Coordinates college/university town halls. 

 

Advocacy:

  • Implements administrative functions for Indiana CPA-PAC including workplans and contribution analysis and tracking reports.
  • Assists with the administrative functions of recruiting and communicating with the CPA Advocates program, including the planning of CPA Advocates activities, advocacy events and communications with legislators and members. 

Other:

  • Actively participates in strategic initiatives to achieve objectives related to workforce development, diversity, equity & inclusion and advocacy initiatives.
  • Ability to continuously learn and seek personal and professional growth opportunities in technical areas of professional focus.

Required Qualifications:

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   
  • Highly self-motivated with strong problem-solving skills.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively both independently and as part of a team. 
  • Travel when necessary

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience in recruiting, workforce development, association management, nonprofit, education, advocacy, or related fields. 
  • Proficiency in common presentation tools such as Canva, PowerPoint, etc.

Education, Training and/or Experience

  • Associate’s degree (AA) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience with contact management systems, database software, and Office 365 suite – Microsoft Teams, a plus. 

INCPAS Staff Core Competencies

  • Member Love – recruit, retain, engage and serve.
  • Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration – teamwork for staff, members, customers, clients
  • Resource Management – finances, human resources, volunteers; people management; and technological resources.
  • Compliance – legal, regulatory, ethics, and governance.
  • Problem Solving and Empowerment – program development, staff culture, and safe-to-fail.