Program Director, Career Services – HigherEdJobs

The Program Director, in
conjunction with University Career Center & The President’s Promise (Center) staff and campus partners, proactively assists
students through a stage-focused career development model. The Program Director’s responsibilities include: providing individual
assistance to students, customizing career development activities for assigned college, and working collaboratively with assigned faculty
and staff and center-based staff.The Program Director, Center supervisor and the assigned college counterpart will jointly develop a
strategic integration and implementation plan for career development that will guide the Program Director’s work. The Program Director
will complement the work being done by any college-based career practitioners. Additionally, Center staff will support the Program
Director’s responsibilities, by providing basic career advising for students at the early stage of development (e.g., self-assessment
and career exploration), planning and logistics for college-specific career events, and providing assessment data pertinent to strategic
decisions. Center located employer relations staff and alumni engagement staff will also work collaboratively with the Program Director.

This position reports to the Senior Associate Director of the Center.

Responsibilities include:

Student Contacts:

• Meet individually with students to help them advance through the career
  development stages.
• Provide students with career exposure opportunities and bring students into direct contact with the world of
  work.
• Help students to identify and participate in co-curricular learning opportunities.
• Assist students in articulating
  gained knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Teach students how to develop their own professional networks.

Faculty and Staff Collaborations:

• Prepare developmental activities for integration into curricula and
  co-curricular opportunities.
• Develop multifaceted forms of career exposure activities.
• Create and provide unpacking
  (meaning making) exercises to every experiential learning activity.
• Coordinate and present college-specific outreaches and
  customized programs.
• Support Graduation Survey data collection and college reporting efforts.

Center-Based
Staff Collaborations:

• Work collaboratively with Center to enhance and diversify discipline-specific experiential
  learning opportunities and other career programming initiatives.
• Leverage Center resources to connect students to professional
  networks, including alumni ones, and help to identify potential internship and job opportunities.
• Work with Center staff to engage
  alumni to gain access to fields and employers underrepresented in recruiting.
• Support employer relations efforts by helping to
  identify potential employers, jobs and internship opportunities.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge and information about appropriate
  career fields.

Administrative:

• Maintain service delivery records pertaining to career
  advising, programming and other career-related activities.
• Evaluate, monitor, and report on the utilization of services.
• Attend regularly scheduled Center’s full staff and unit meetings and as appropriate, assigned college meetings.
• Support
  Center work by assisting with programs and services, contributing to discussions, and serving on various committees.
• Other duties
  as assigned.

• Computer literacy is required, including computer assisted guidance
  systems, Internet job search tools and database management systems.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
• The ability to work with diverse student populations is critical.