Senior Director, Career Services

The University is located in Denver, Colorado, a city known for its dynamic blend of business, innovation and world-class recreation. Denver is consistently ranked by Forbes and Kiplinger’s Magazine as one of the top cities for young professionals and recent college graduates. The University of Denver is a private institution founded in 1864. It serves a population of more than 5,200 undergraduate and 6,200 graduate students as a research-intensive institution. The beautiful campus is located approximately seven miles from downtown with easy access to public transportation.

With a long tradition of excellence and innovation, the Daniels College of Business prepares students to succeed in a dynamic, changing world. We are a high-achieving community of students, staff and faculty that inspires one another to think in new ways, perform at higher levels, and transform organizations and communities. Daniels is ranked among the top business schools and is the only business school in Colorado to receive rankings and recognition from BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. The Daniels College of Business (DCB) offers a variety of baccalaureate, graduate, PhD and certificate programs which are detailed at https://daniels.du.edu/ 

Position Summary

The Daniels College of Business seeks an individual with an established track record in leading organizational transformation and product and service innovation to spearhead its career services function. This is a unique opportunity to build a comprehensive, high-performing service function to serve aspiring business professionals and established business professionals seeking new career opportunities or career transitions. Daniels Career Services (DCS) serves graduate and undergraduate business students as well as alumni, offering self-assessments, career coaching, workshops, seminars, mentorship programs, career programming, and fairs to position people for jobs, internships, and life-long careers in business. The Director has direct oversight for strategy, employer outreach, business development, talent management, data analysis, programming, and fiscal management for the career services function. The position reports to the Executive Director of Student Success. The incumbent will be a visionary thinker and strong implementer capable of working in fast-paced, changing environments as well as a person who understands how to develop and market talent. It is also important for this individual to be data-driven and able to set performance bars and measures of accountability to ensure strong outcomes, namely in the areas of student and employer engagement, post-graduation employment rates, starting salaries, and student and employer satisfaction.

Essential Functions

Strategy and Execution: Develops strategies that inspire people and align the College and University with market needs in areas such as programs and services, outreach and marketing, and tools, delivery platforms, and data. Provides leadership for the execution of the strategy and drives all resources toward achieving defined goals in student and employer engagement, employment rates, starting salaries, and student and employer satisfaction levels.

Outreach and Collaboration: Works collaboratively with various stakeholders to further the goals of career services and increase visibility and reputation in the community. This includes Daniels academic chairs and directors, faculty, alumni, senior leadership, DU career services colleagues, other administrators, networks of business leaders and employers, and professional associations. Develops deep relationships.

Business Development: Through outreach and collaboration, develops and sustains a robust pipeline of internships and job opportunities for students and alumni, including regional, national, and international locations. Collaborates with employers to design optimal marketing strategies to recruit Daniels talent and to match job opportunities with qualified candidates.

Talent Management: Responsible for hiring the best talent available and developing/motivating staff to be successful through coaching and evaluation against key performance indicators. Establishes an environment that results in high-performing teams and shared responsibility for achieving goals. Has the ability to develop staff talent throughout various stages of their careers.

Data and Metrics: Responsible for ensuring that career services data systems meet the requirements for reporting to the MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA), the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), and various ranking groups. This includes the collection and compilation of post-graduate employment outcome and salary data for each recruiting cycle, continuous analysis of the data to adjust actions, timely re