The Assistant Director/Coordinator of Career Education will support student career development in five majors areas:
- Design, oversee and grow a contemporary Mock Interview Program,
- Recruit, train, and evaluate students to serve as Peer Career Coaches,
- Supervise a team of Peer Career Coaches, including managing their schedules, delegating event responsibilities, and handling presentation requests,
- Provide general career advising to students from all majors pursuing various career sectors,
- Work to engage employers, alumni and/or parents in programs and services in conjunction with the Employer Relations Team.
This position will serve on the Career Development Team within CCES. The annual full-time salary range for the Coordinator level is $44,000-$50,000. The annual full-time salary range for the Assistant Director level is $49,000-$55,000.
This position is campus-based but may have the option to work remotely on a hybrid basis (1-2 days/week) following an introductory period. Remote work is not a right, but a working arrangement that can be modified or revoked by Miami University at any time for any reason. Occasional weekends and evenings are required.
Job Description
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Plan, promote, schedule, administer, and evaluate a contemporary Mock Interview Program that leverages new technologies and hiring trends to best prepare Miami University students to compete for their desired positions. Serve the campus community as a career educator on multiple interview types including behavioral, case, coding, teacher education and more. Design a Mock Interview Program to support the training and education of mock interview participants and grow participation. Prepare and share pertinent records and reports associated with assigned responsibilities. Work collaboratively with the marketing and communications team, career advisors, faculty and staff to entice student participants. Collaborate with career advisors to increase faculty engagement and classroom mock interview assignments.
- Recruit, hire, train and provide on-going performance feedback to student peer career coaches. Work collaboratively to establish training criteria and delivery, performance recognition, schedule management, and student staff team meetings.
- Serve as back up career advisor during staff vacancies and during peak recruiting seasons across all career clusters or for students in designated academic divisions.
- Oversee the Career Center’s Interview for Success program, a workshop on interviewing skills. Create dynamic content, track student completion, schedule, evaluate, and customize delivery for various career clusters.
- Provide programming such as mock interview days for specific career clusters and present workshops and educational programs in a format that is engaging and conducive to student learning. Work with the Employer Relations team to support employers who are looking to expand their diverse student recruiting efforts by engagement with mock interviews and the Interview for Success programs.
- In solidarity to Miami University and CCES goals, support Inclusive Excellence by providing programming and outreach to high priority student populations as assigned and in collaboration with Career Center staff focused on this initiative.
- Teach first-year and/or career development courses as needed (master’s degree required to teach). Assist in the coordination of office-wide special events, programs, workshops, and career fairs, and other events as needed. Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Coordinator:
Bachelor’s degree (at the time of hire) with one year of transferable experience. Transferable experience may be earned during the pursuit of an undergraduate degree and may include but is not limited to career coaching, cultural intelligence, international experience, presentation development and public speaking, teamwork, use of technology, ability to work collaboratively within a department and with external partners, strong professional and written communication skills. (Experience earned during the pursuit of a degree will be counted at half-time (i.e., 2 years experience = 1 year)
Assistant Director:
- Master’s degree (at the time of hire) with experience in hiring candidates for full/part-time positions and/or student development at the collegiate level. Experience may be earned during degree completion and will be counted at half-time.
- Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Problem-solving abilities.
- Demonstrated teamwork and professional acumen.
- Program and project management skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously.
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Required Application Documents
Resume and cover letter
