University of Maryland - College Park - University Career Center
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Posted: 19-May-23
Location: College Park, Maryland
Type: Full Time
Salary: Mid $70's
Categories:
Career Services
Salary Details:
The University of Maryland offers a comprehensive benefits package, including annual leave, sick leave and tuition remission.
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
Internal Number: Posting 107381
The University Career Center & The President’s Promise will fill two positions from this search:
Program Director, School of Public Health
Program Director, College of Information Studies
The Program Director, in conjunction with University Career Center & The President’s Promise (Center) staff and campus partners, proactively assists students through a stage-focused career development model. The Program Director’s responsibilities include: providing individual assistance to students, customizing career development activities for assigned college, and working collaboratively with assigned faculty and staff and center-based staff.
The Program Director, Center supervisor and the assigned college counterpart will jointly develop a strategic integration and implementation plan for career development that will guide the Program Director’s work. The Program Director will complement the work being done by any college-based career practitioners. Additionally, Center staff will support the Program Director’s responsibilities, by providing basic career advising for students at the early stage of development (e.g., self-assessment and career exploration), planning and logistics for college-specific career events, and providing assessment data pertinent to strategic decisions. Center located employer relations staff and alumni engagement staff will also work collaboratively with the Program Director.
This position reports to the Senior Associate Director of the Center.
Responsibilities include:
Student Contacts:
Meet individually with students to help them advance through the career development stages.
Provide students with career exposure opportunities and bring students into direct contact with the world of work.
Help students to identify and participate in co-curricular learning opportunities.
Assist students in articulating gained knowledge, skills and abilities.
Teach students how to develop their own professional networks.
Faculty and Staff Collaborations:
Prepare developmental activities for integration into curricula and co-curricular opportunities.
Develop multifaceted forms of career exposure activities.
Create and provide unpacking (meaning making) exercises to every experiential learning activity.
Coordinate and present college-specific outreaches and customized programs.
Support Graduation Survey data collection and college reporting efforts.
Center-Based Staff Collaborations:
Work collaboratively with Center to enhance and diversify discipline-specific experiential learning opportunities and other career programming initiatives.
Leverage Center resources to connect students to professional networks, including alumni ones, and help to identify potential internship and job opportunities.
Work with Center staff to engage alumni to gain access to fields and employers underrepresented in recruiting.
Support employer relations efforts by helping to identify potential employers, jobs and internship opportunities.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge and information about appropriate career fields.
Administrative:
Maintain service delivery records pertaining to career advising, programming and other career-related activities.
Evaluate, monitor, and report on the utilization of services.
Attend regularly scheduled Center’s full staff and unit meetings and as appropriate, assigned college meetings.
Support Center work by assisting with programs and services, contributing to discussions, and serving on various committees.
Other duties as assigned.
Education: Master’s degree in counseling, student personnel, education, or related area.
Experience: At least three (3) years’ experience in career services or a related field required, including student guidance, educational programming, work with faculty and employers and administrative responsibilities.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Computer literacy is required, including computer assisted guidance systems, Internet job search tools and database management systems.
Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
The ability to work with diverse student populations is critical.
Diversity, equity and inclusion are core values for the University Career Center and are integral to achieve our mission. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where all backgrounds, experiences and abilities are welcome and experience a sense of belonging. We seek candidates with an awareness of and commitment to these values across all spectrums.
Previous experience with School of Public Health OR College of Information Studies career fields and/or in a comprehensive university career center is strongly preferred.
The University Career Center & The President’s Promise will fill two positions from this search:
Program Director, Career Services – School of Public Health
Program Director, Career Services – College of Information Studies
To Apply: For best consideration, apply online at https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/107381 Submit resume with cover letter and the names and contact information of three professional references by June 4, 2023.
About University of Maryland - College Park - University Career Center
The University of Maryland, College Park is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is home to more than 40,700 students, 14,000 faculty and staff, and 388,000 alumni all dedicated to the pursuit of Fearless Ideas. Located just outside Washington, D.C., we discover and share new knowledge every day through our renowned research enterprise and programs in academics, the arts and athletics. And we are committed to social entrepreneurship as the nation’s first “Do Good” campus.
The University Career Center & The President's Promise, in partnership with faculty, employers, alumni and others, empowers students to learn life-long career development skills and make meaningful contributions to their communities. The Center is the lead unit on the campus providing career services to all students in all colleges, across all degree levels, and promotes a learning environment where students' academic and career goals are integrated to ensure success both at the University and in employment or graduate study upon degree completion. The focus of The President'...s Promise is to promote student engagement in learning experiences outside of the classroom that complement the academic curriculum. The Center adheres to and promotes the highest professional standards and ethics in all its programs, services and collaborations.
