Career Development Specialist - Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Permanent Expat Relocation Package

This position requires full relocation to Saudi Arabia. It is a permanent, full-time expatriate role with an attractive relocation package.

About the role

We are seeking a Career Development Specialist to join the Career Counseling Group (CCG) under the Career Development Division (CDD) of the Management & Professional Development Department (M&PDD). MPDD's vision is to be a global leader in providing future-focused development, following the mission of developing professionals and leaders to drive personal and corporate success.

Career counseling services are conducted in strict confidence and adherence to the Company's policies and guidelines and the Kingdom's National Standards for Career Practitioners.

Your primary role is to deliver career development experiences and build professional capacity to drive career fulfillment and, ultimately, corporate performance. Offered career services are designed to facilitate employees' career development and support them in goal-setting, making career decisions, exploring options, navigating transitions, or solving any other career-related issues or concerns.

Responsibilities

• Provide confidential, multi-mode career counseling/guidance for early-career and experienced professionals in a wide range of contexts.
• Design and deliver customized career practitioner training informed by international best practices and adult learning principles.
• Coordinate and provide career practitioner/counselor supervision and skill assessment processes to determine progress and promote skill acquisition, ensuring optimum development and adherence to career services delivery standards and guidelines.
• Develop effective relationships with company line organizations to grow knowledge and understanding of key business drivers, co-creating innovative career interventions to support the development of business goals.
• Plan, design, and facilitate career development sessions, including self-awareness, opportunity-awareness, decision-making, transitioning, and career management skills, in line with business needs.
• Proactively support employees, supervisors, and mentors with the creation and alignment of individual development plans with business needs, achieving synergies with corporate strategic goals.
• Report on career counseling services to identify further opportunities to align CDD service with individual aspirations and business needs.
• Keep up-to-date on the latest trends, issues, and challenges for career counseling/guidance as relevant to early-career and experienced professionals within the energy sector.
• Work closely with career practitioners/counselors across CDD and corporate-wide to share best practices, knowledge, and create opportunities for mutual benefit.
• Maintain accurate and regular records of all career counseling activities and services for reporting and monitoring purposes as required by senior management.
• Build experience through continuous research of career development/human resources/workforce trends and identify practices and technologies appropriate to the organization’s needs.
• Consistently practice proven characteristics of effective teaming.
• Administer, use, and debrief career assessments to identify motivators, personality preferences, strengths, and aspirations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with courses in education, career guidance, counseling, or any related field.
• Maintain relevant career counseling/guidance credentials and professional organization affiliations such as National Career Development Association, Career Development Institute, Career Professionals of Canada, Career Industry Council of Australia, or other.
• 6 to 10 years of experience in career development, including 3 to 5 years in career counseling/guidance and professional development activities and training, preferably training career counselors/practitioners.
• Wide experience in career counseling/guidance that includes some supervisory experience.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to consult, counsel, present, and lead meetings.
• Experience in delivering and facilitating training to internal stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Familiarity with career development and assessment tools and resources.

About the employer

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. As a global energy company, we address some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, investing heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs—one of the largest in the world.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest upstream carbon intensities of any major producer. Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations-spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as among the top five global companies by market capitalization.