Career Counselor

The Career Services Center (CSC) at the W. P. CareySchool of Business is seeking to fill a position as a
**Career Counselor **focused on working with undergraduate and specialized master's students and who share our passion for empowering individuals to identify, pursue, and achieve their professional goals. When you join the W. P. Carey School of Business, you become part of a team of academics and professionals committed to making a positive impact through business education via the lens of our mission, “Business is personal.” When you join the CSC team, you will be developing your program design, stakeholder management, content creation, and creative collaboration skill set.

The** Career Counselor** is part of an energetic and collaborative team working with undergraduate and graduate students. This position will work with other coaches individually and build career programming that includes group sessions, workshops, vendors, presentations (in-person and on-demand), and class design and delivery. Your role will be to map a career journey during the student’s time in their program of study
- to help them become career-ready and directly connect their skills, talents, interests, and education to the rapidly changing world of work.

The **Career Counselor** will deliver a high-quality level of service to a population with various needs. This position will teach career courses, partner with student clubs, manage employment data collection, and develop workshops. Additional responsibilities include assessing trends in the employment market; performing research and interpreting career and employment data and job search information databases; developing curriculum and content; representing the department on committees and strategic projects; and other duties as assigned.

The **Career Counselor** achieves results in five key areas of responsibility:
1. **Program Design & Management**: Develop a comprehensive and customized career program tailored to the needs of a student population, utilizing data to make informed programmatic decisions.

2. **Career Coach**: Deliver relevant career programming through various channels to drive student engagement and build life-long career capabilities.

3. **Content Creation**: Collaborating with colleagues across Career Services, continuously creates and improves the quality of career content and resources.

4. **Stakeholder Engagement**: Build and maintain relationships with the critical business community stakeholders — internal to W.P. Carey and external—to enhance students’ market competitiveness.

5.** Market Informed**: Stay informed about the holistic business landscape as well as on business trends and best practices around talent management roles/firms/industries within their assigned portfolio

**Job Family**
- Career Mgmt & Guidance

**Department Name**
- WPC Career Mgmt & Employer Eng

**Full-Time/Part-Time**
- Full-Time

**VP Code**
- EXEC VP/PROVOST

**Scope of Search**
- Open

**Grant Funded Position**
- This is not a grant funded position and is not contingent on future grant funding.

**Salary Range**
- $45,000 - $55,000 per year, DOE

**Close Date**
- 28-May-2024

**Category**
- 03

**Essential Duties**

**(40%) Career Coach**. Delivers relevant career programming through various channels to drive student engagement and build life-long career capabilities. Provides individual, drop-in, and group career coaching services to a student portfolio to develop life-long career capabilities, including career decision-making, narrative, networking, interviewing, etc. Facilitates career development courses; assists with developing and facilitating career management core workshops and programming.

**(30%) Program Design and Management.** Develops comprehensive and customized career programs tailored to the needs of a student population, utilizing data to make informed programmatic decisions. Identifies and integrates career tools, resources, events, and activities to assist students on their unique career journeys. Supports students' awareness and development of personal and professional capabilities, including goal orientation, communication, decision-making, and learning, all related to their career goals. Works on multiple concurrent projects under tight deadlines.

**(15%) Content Creation**. Collaborating with colleagues across Career Management creates and improves the quality of career content and resources. Assesses the needs of the portfolio to generate and send editorial content. Prepares content for market-informed workshops and corresponding events and sharing relevant insights with students through various channels is an expectation to understand market needs and our students’ performance within it.

**(10%) Stakeholder Engagement**. Builds and maintains relationships with key business community stakeholders—both internal to W. P. Carey and external—to enhance students’ market competitiveness. Partners with the Operations team to su