Career Coach & Industry Liaison

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain all aspects of the career center department to ensure quality delivery of programs for your assigned focus areas.
• Collaborate with academic departments to assist with the employment of students in part-time and permanent employment, work-study programs, and internship and externship opportunities for your assigned focus area.
• Career Coach & Industry Liaison: Coordinate experiential learning opportunities (i.e. job shadow, internships, co-op, and course project opportunities available to students.) for your assigned focus area.
• Responsible for planning and implementing innovative marketing strategies for identifying a diverse group of potential employers and internship providers. Develops and maintains systems and processes used to identify employment opportunities for students.
• Maintains consistent and frequent communication with students and potential employers during the job search to influence a positive outcome.
• Maintains an active lead generation process to ensure targeted, quality job opportunities are available for students and graduates.
• Keeps students informed of employment activities and opportunities (e.g., job fairs, employer recruitment events, current open positions, etc.).
• Interpret and provide results for career development self-assessments.
• Maintains the university’s online job posting board.
• Plans, organizes, and executes employer recruitment events.
• Provide resume, cover letter writing, professional development strategies, and resume referral assistance to students by assigned schools.
• Participate in the Networking Plan for the Department: Track previous, current, and prospective employers as well as current and former students through a Contact Management System.
• Utilize data-driven methods: Assist in the identification of “Key Metrics” that will serve as indicators for the department’s status towards university and department goals, for example, destination employment.
• Collaborate with University Development: Develop and maintain relationships with strategic employers for the advancement of the university, interact with senior executive leadership alongside university administration to develop university partnerships, advance alumni engagement with the university through cross-functional efforts for development efforts, assist with alumni mentor network efforts.
• Coordinate Faculty Collaborative Visit Program: Assist and coordinate for your assigned area. Coordinate training that provides guidance in the elements of successful experiential learning programs and ways to encourage students to engage in internship and co-operative education programs.
• Supervise Career Services Student Workers (Work Study or Interns): Provide training, supervision, and activity guidance.
• Maintain a plan for employer & faculty learning modules: Coordinate training that provides guidance in the elements of successful experiential learning programs and ways to encourage students to engage in internship and co-operative education programs.
• Oversee student community service activities.

Education and/or Experience

• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree (B. A.) from a four-year College or University
• Two to four years of related experience/training

Outstanding Benefits

• Health – medical, dental, vision, flex spending, HSA accounts
• Life Insurance – a variety of voluntary life options are available along with an employer paid employee life policy valued at 1½ times annual salary
• Financial Insurance – employer paid Long Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness options are available
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Retail – after one year of full-time service you are eligible for an employer contribution of 5% and up to an additional 5% employer match
• Education – after 6 months of full-time service, undergraduate education benefits are available for employee, spouse, and dependent children

Salary

The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications.