Director - Office Of Professional Development - 499665

About the role

The University of Toledo seeks to hire the Director of the Office of Professional Development within the College of Law. This position trains, oversees, and directs the College of Law’s Office of Professional Development team and provides professional development counseling to students and alumni via direct individual counseling and group programs.

Responsibilities

• Trains, oversees, and directs the College of Law’s Office of Professional Development team
• Provides professional development counseling to students and alumni
• Performs resume and cover letter reviews and mock interviews with students and alumni
• Plans, organizes, and delivers programs and information on varying career-related topics
• Develops academic programming and courses relating to professional development
• Prepares the content of the weekly e-newsletter
• Coordinates the compilation of employment data for external reporting to accreditation and rating agencies
• Captures and analyzes employment data for external reporting to accreditation and rating agencies
• Coordinates on-campus interview programs and both on-campus and off-campus job fairs
• Interacts with prospective employers
• Serves as a liaison to students, groups, and faculty committees as assigned
• Implements public interest work and student fellowship programs
• Performs other law school functions as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, Juris Doctor degree, strongly preferred
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, Word, Power Point required
• Occasional travel throughout the US and some evening and weekend work required
• Must have a valid driver’s License
• Excellent oral, verbal, and written communications skills
• Familiarity with the law employment market and strategies
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with a diverse and wide range of people, including interaction with the practicing bench and bar
• Exemplary professionalism in dealing with confidential information
• Ability to multitask and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to project a positive and professional image
• Awareness and ability to locate online and traditional employment resources
• Must have the ability to, as well as meet, the requirements to complete and maintain mandatory training per the University mandatory training policy pursuant to the deadlines set forth therein

Qualifications

• Bar licensure, (active or inactive), strongly preferred
• Law firm practice experience, strongly preferred
• Significant experience in law career placement, strongly preferred
• Familiarity and working knowledge of 12Twenty software preferred
• Data and assessment analysis experience preferred
• Career counseling experience preferred

Skills

• Excellent oral, verbal, and written communications skills
• Familiarity with the law employment market and strategies
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with a diverse and wide range of people, including interaction with the practicing bench and bar
• Exemplary professionalism in dealing with confidential information
• Ability to multitask and work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to project a positive and professional image
• Awareness and ability to locate online and traditional employment resources

Benefits

• To promote the highest levels of health and well-being, the University of Toledo campuses are tobacco-free.
• Pre-employment health screening requirements for the University of Toledo Health Science Campus Medical Center will include drug and other required health screenings for the position.

Pay

• Commensurate with experience

Schedule

• TBD