Director of Graduate Career Development (Career Services Consultant)

Department-Specific Responsibilities

Provides career services for all graduate students on the Bloomington campus.

Collaborates broadly with school-based career services offices, represents the Graduate School on the IUB Career Services Council, and advocates for graduate student career development needs.

Develops and provides leadership for best practices in graduate career services, as well as to offer programming for students, staff and faculty on the Bloomington campus.

Creates and builds strategy and services for graduate career development and career consulting in collaboration with the Walter Center, school-based career services offices, and centers or institutes on the Bloomington campus.

Provides 1-to-1 career consulting and program design and delivery for graduate student career development.

Develops the program for, organizes, and directs, the annual Graduate Career Diversity Symposium, sponsored by the Graduate School.

Collaborates with the Graduate School senior leadership team, academic schools, and other career services departments, councils, or committees for planning and implementation.

Defines objectives, metrics, and goals to meet the needs of graduate student populations in various academic departments.

Uses these data to assess the success of graduate career services.

Makes decisions, collects, participates in creating, and responds to data, studies, requests, and inquiries from or with campus partners such as faculty and professional staff, or regional or national partners to inform promising practices for graduate career development within the Graduate School.

Supports new services and programming for graduate students by authoring or contributing to relevant internal and external grant proposals.

May recommend or make requests for new or additional campus funds to drive the creation of graduate career services.

Mentor and advise peers or juniors, including supervision of graduate assistants.

Acts as a subject matter expert for best practices in career development on the Bloomington campus and provides leadership for graduate career services on the Campus Career Services Council.

Participates in campus committees and in national and regional disciplinary conferences.

Disseminates the results of the outcomes of new programming and initiatives through publications and presentations at disciplinary conferences.

General Responsibilities

Assists with professional and career development of students and alumni through career assessments, exploration, decision-making, goal setting, and planning.

Focuses efforts on resume building, interview skill development, mock interview, and job search preparation and navigation; graduate school application and interview preparation through counseling appointments and consultations.

Develops and delivers workshops on career development which include networking strategies, interviewing, resume and cover letter writing skills, portfolio development, and using the internet for career search.

Serves on various community and institutional committees to build partnerships across the university and among comparable universities to build knowledge base.

Serves as a liaison between students, employers, alumni, and faculty.

May provide guidance and delegate administrative tasks to other career services staff.

May make process recommendations for improved operational efficiency.

Education and Experience

Required: Bachelor's degree in business or related field.

PREFERRED: Master's degree in related field.

Required: 5 years in career consulting or related field.

Skills

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Holds a highly thorough and dependable attitude.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Possesses a high degree of initiative.
• Able to influence internal and/or external constituents.
• Counseling skills, program development skills, understanding of college student success, knowledge of career development services in higher education, ability to interpret career assessments.