Assistant Director, Market Readiness and Employment

About the Role

The Wake Forest University School of Business seeks a dynamic career development professional for the role of Assistant Director, Market Readiness and Employment. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive and exemplary career coaching support to ensure every student is "career ready," having developed the professional competencies needed to secure desirable career outcomes. The Assistant Director may work with undergraduate or graduate students.

Essential Functions

• Delivers a personalized, consistent, and high-quality career coaching experience to help students successfully navigate their career and job search process. Examples may include 1:1 coaching, group coaching, presentations, innovative programs, and employer treks.
• Engages and builds relationships with both internal partners and external partners to inform coaching strategy and support student connections to the market.
• Drives high student engagement and maintains a detailed awareness of student caseload; monitors and tracks all student engagement activity, ensuring consistent and comprehensive reporting for all stakeholders.
• Assesses the unique needs of a student caseload to design and execute strategic, tailored coaching plans that drive student success.
• Supports relevant organization goals such as alumni engagement and student satisfaction.

Other Functions

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Bachelor's degree and at least two years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to foster authentic relationships with students from varied backgrounds and career interests.
• Experience in a goal-oriented environment with demonstrated success in achieving desired outcomes.
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills used to influence and communicate with various constituencies.
• Ability to design and develop goals for student caseload.
• Ability to leverage data and analytics to inform coaching strategies and report results.

Preferred Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Advanced degree.
• Previous experience coaching, mentoring, or supervising college students in a School of Business or in business-related environments.
• Previous experience in higher education in a student-facing role.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for own work.

Physical Requirements

• Work primarily involving sitting/standing; communicating with others to exchange information; repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers; and assessing the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned.

Environmental Conditions

• Climate controlled, office setting.

About Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational institution dedicated to academic excellence in liberal arts, graduate, and professional education. Founded in 1834, the University is ranked among the top thirty national universities according to U.S. News & World Report. With over 5,400 undergraduates and 3,400 graduate and professional students, the student-faculty ratio is 11:1. Wake Forest is a collegiate university offering a vibrant, intellectual community with a rich cultural life, an impressive array of facilities, and a strong athletics program competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Since its founding, the University has adopted the motto Pro Humanitate, which is exemplified by a deep institutional commitment to public service and engagement with the world.

Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, a beautiful, mid-sized city centrally located in the Piedmont-Triad region of North Carolina. A family-friendly city with high quality schools, a wide selection of restaurants and shops, outdoor recreational activities, and numerous special events, it is known for its vibrant and thriving arts and innovation scenes. Residents enjoy proximity to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains (1.5 hours) and Atlantic beaches (4 hours), a moderate climate with four distinct seasons, and a very reasonable cost of living. Winston-Salem offers many of the amenities of a large city but with the sense of community and quality of life of a small town.

The School of Business

The AACSB-accredited, nationally ranked Wake Forest University School of Business offers undergraduate academic programs in Accountancy, Finance, Business and Enterprise Management, and Decision Analytics as well as graduate programs encompassing the Master of Science in Accountancy (MSA), Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA), Master of Science in Management (MSM), and Master of Business Administration (MBA - on-ground, hybrid and online). Courses are offered at the beautiful home campus in Winston-Salem, the Wake Forest University Charlotte Campus, and/or online depending upon the chosen program.

Wake Forest University continues to rank as a top school for undergraduate business education (ranked in the Top 15 by Poets & Quants for Best Undergraduate Business Programs in 2026). Wake Forest MSA students have earned the #1 CPA Pass Rate more than any other school in the past 25 years, and the MSA Program has been listed as a "Top 20 Program" by the Public Accounting Report. For 2026, U.S. News & World Report ranked the part-time MBA Program #1 in North Carolina and Top 30 in the nation while The Economist ranked the MSM Program as #2 in Career Opportunities and #5 overall for 2021.

Farrell Hall and the Charlotte Center

Located on the main campus of Wake Forest University, Farrell Hall is an inspiring, four-level, 130,000-square foot structure featuring state-of-the-art technology and groundbreaking design to create an environment in which faculty-staff-student engagement and interaction thrives. Located in The Pearl within Charlotte's midtown innovation district, the Howard R. Levine Center for Education is the new home to the WFU Charlotte Campus and houses our on-ground and hybrid MBA Programs.