Director for Judicial Clerkships and Government Careers

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Posted Job Title

Director for Judicial Clerkships and Government Careers

Job Profile Title

Director B, Student Services, Advising

Job Description Summary

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished law schools. The Law School offers a unique approach, incorporating cross-disciplinary legal education, a distinctly collaborative environment, and an innovative curriculum to enrich student learning. The small and highly interdisciplinary faculty achieves scholarly excellence while emphasizing a shared effort to advance understanding of the law. The result is an intellectual community that bridges traditional boundaries and disciplines within a renowned internal culture of collegiality, making the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School an extraordinarily supportive academic community for all its members.

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Career Strategy, the Director for Judicial Clerkships & Government Careers creates and implements strategic approaches to preparing students and alumni to succeed in the highly competitive judicial clerkship, academic career, and government career marketplaces. The Director oversees the development and delivery of related career education, manages and directs recruitment programs and events, and leads the provision of counseling services to students and alumni. This role requires significant collaboration and strong relationships with the faculty committees for clerkships and academic careers (including the Dean), as well as with colleagues within the Office of Career Strategy, throughout the law school, with judges and their chambers, with academic and government institutions, and with alumni.

Job Description

Responsibilities Include:

Lead the strategic vision for judicial clerkship programming and services for Penn Carey Law students and alumni. Develop and implement programs and services and provide career counseling on judicial clerkship career strategy.

• Build and maintain a deep and evolving expertise in judicial clerkship opportunities across judicial forums, including hiring trends and timelines, selection practices, the nature of the work and how it relates to other career goals, and alumni networks.
• Develop and oversee the vision for judicial clerkship and internship career strategy for Penn Carey Law students and alumni, including strategies for identifying and reaching a broad population with potential interest in a judicial clerkship and ensuring Penn Carey Law candidates have access to the resources and support they need to be as competitive as possible for the judicial clerkship opportunities they pursue.
• In collaboration with the faculty committee, lead the design and implementation of judicial clerkship and internship programs, services, and resources