Senior Associate Director, Career Management

Department

Booth Career Services FT: Career Management 2

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

The Senior Associate Director, Career Management is part of a global Career Services team providing career management support to Chicago Booth MBA students. The Senior Associate Director primarily functions as a coach and educator for Chicago Booth’s 1,300 full-time MBA students, based at Harper Center on the main University of Chicago Campus. As a coach, the Senior Associate Director provides one-on-one and small group support for all phases of the career and job search lifecycle. As an educator, the Senior Associate Director creates and delivers innovative career management programming including large classroom, experiential learning and special events, and via e-learning such as webinars and designed instructional tools. The Senior Associate Director also drives strategic initiatives that address current and unique career support needs of various student populations.

Responsibilities

• Coaches domestic and international Full-time MBA students on pertinent career management and job search skills appropriate for the full range of MBA-level business careers in one-on-one, small and large group settings, in-person and virtually. Acquires, maintains, and applies knowledge of career research databases and shares that knowledge with relevant constituencies. The Senior Associate Director is a generalist, coaching first-year and second-year MBA students across industries.
• Conceptualizes, innovates, develops, and delivers career management programming, such as large lectures, workshops, seminars, panel discussions, special events, etc., to groups of 5-650 students. Leverages learning technologies in designing and delivering career content to support students. Solicits and analyzes student feedback and evaluations, and helps strategize with the broader Career Management team, student organizations, and/or other Booth staff to determine program offerings and innovations.
• Consults and partners with several functional, industry, regional, and affinity student groups to guide in planning and delivering career management-related programming to support recruiting needs. Accompanies students on treks to employers.
• Manages or leads various special projects/programs that provide career-related support or strategic initiatives to address the needs of special constituencies. Partners across team and colleagues in developing and implementing innovative initiatives.
• Continually develops and maintains knowledge of MBA functions and industries that target MBA students for recruiting. Analyzes markets and trends as they relate to the MBA job search and incorporates tips/advice into coaching students, and in developing career programming.
• Collaborates with Employer Relations team. Partners with industry-specific Employer Relations colleagues to build industry knowledge for use in coaching and career management program development. Accompanies relationship managers on firm visits as needed, to build knowledge and share student feedback with employers.
• Demonstrates career management team leadership through collaboration, providing mentoring and guidance, and sharing knowledge with