Assistant Director, Career Advancement

Department

ESA Deputy Director STEM Programs - Direct Reports

About the Department

Career Advancement serves a student population of approximately 7,000 arts and sciences undergraduate students, in addition to alumni who have graduated within the last five years. Career Advancement plays a vital role in ensuring our students’ success after graduation. Career Advancement offers innovative and comprehensive career development services with a focus on pre-professional preparation, experiential education, and opportunities. Through career advising, programs, and comprehensive resources, Career Advancement supports undergraduate students and alumni as they develop the skills necessary to manage their career development, while working with alumni and employers to provide students with meaningful opportunities. For more information, please visit the Career Advancement website at careeradvancement.uchicago.edu.

Job Summary

The Assistant Director, Career Advancement will lead initiatives to prepare and connect undergraduate students at the College to impactful careers in artificial intelligence across industries. This role will design and drive strategic initiatives that expand students’ awareness of and access to AI career pathways in business, technology, healthcare, climate science, government, public policy, and beyond. Responsibilities will include creating and facilitating a series of professional development workshops focused on the most in-demand AI competencies. These sessions will provide students with opportunities to learn and practice skills including prompt engineering, building AI models with proprietary data, and AI safety and quality assurance.

The Assistant Director will also cultivate partnerships to generate internships, research collaborations, networking events, and other immersive experiences that give students hands-on exposure to the evolving AI landscape. This role will have a significant focus on developing new employer partnerships across industries creating pipelines for career opportunities for College students. This role will also advise students individually and in groups providing guidance on AI career exploration and recruiting support.

In addition, the Assistant Director will lead communications and data-tracking efforts that amplify the University’s role in preparing the next generation of AI talent. This includes producing reports, presentations, newsletters, and outreach materials that showcase student successes and highlight emerging trends in AI. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of AI technologies and their applications in professional setting and is highly adaptable and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Creates and leads professional development workshops and skill trainings to educate students about industry applications of AI and prepare students to apply these technologies in their careers.
• Builds and manages strong relationships with employers to create new internship and job opportunities for students across in industries.
• Provides individualized career advising to College students.
• Reviews student resumes and cover letters.
• Creates internship opportunities for cohort members in collaboration with employers.
• Organizes networking opportunities for students, including Career Trek visits to employers in cities throughout the U.S. and around the world.
• Tracks data on programming participants, quantifies student engagement, and reports on student outcomes.
• Provides regular status updates to departmental leadership team and other key stakeholders.
• Develops original content for Career Advancement communications, including memos, agendas, newsletters, web content, presentations, flyers, and general email outreach.
• Provides support for Career Advancement signature events.
• Provides best-in-class customer service to students, employers, faculty, alumni, and campus partners.
• Analyzes markets and trends as they relate to job searches. Assesses student feedback and evaluations and collaborates with other career services staff members, student organizations, or other staff to determine program offerings and innovations.
• Researches organizations that are hiring and partners with a wide variety of employers to ensure recruitment strategies meet their needs. Maintains contact with a portfolio of employers to serve as their dedicated Career Advancement liaison.
• Performs other related tasks as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.