Associate Director, Career Center

GRADE: 31E

CONTEXT OF THE JOB:

Under the limited direction of the Director, Life Design and Career Integration (DLDCI), the Associate Director, Student Life (Career Access & Mobility) (ADCAM), leads the Career Access & Mobility subteam (CAM). This subteam, along with the Academic & Career Integration subteam, forms the Life Design & Career Integration Team (LDCI) within the UD Career Center (UDCC) and Division of Student Life (DSL).

The ADCAM leads the CAM’s overall strategic direction, advances the goals of the UDCC and DSL, and directly supervises and oversees the Career Access & Mobility subteam (CAM). The Associate Director and their team set strategy and collaborate with DSL, University Studies, AAP, Athletics, CGPS, student support units, and RSOs to design and implement career success strategies. Their primary mission is to integrate life design, career preparation, and professional experiences into the co-curricular, foundational, and early-UD student experience so all undergraduate and graduate students achieve clear outcomes, ROI, and postgraduate success from their UD education. In addition, the ADCAM provides leadership on UDCC, DSL, and college committees and coalitions, represents UD as a career expert, and works with other UDCC staff to build new and forward-thinking operations and initiatives that positively impact career preparation, access and equity, and social mobility for all UD students and alumni.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy & Collaboration

· Direct and coordinate the Career Access & Mobility subteam (CAE) and its strategic priorities and help lead the Life Design and Career Integration Team (LDCI).

· Set priorities, success strategies, and outcomes for CAM team members’ portfolios of DSL, Athletics, University Studies, AAP, student support units, RSOs, and other non-academic units

· Oversee strategy and initiatives for personally assigned portfolio of co-curricular, administrative, and student support units and RSOs.

· Serve on UDCC, DSL, and student service-related teams, committees, and strategic and operational planning groups; integrate career, life-design, and post-graduate success-related programming and content into first-year, co-curricular, DSL, and student service unit partnerships.

· Coordinate and engage in regular strategy and operational meetings with DSL leadership, student service department heads, Institutional Equity leadership, and RSO leaders.

Maintain an understanding of critical national, regional, and local trends and best practices in employer recruiting, the labor market and future of work; career access, sense of belonging; social mobility; higher education, alumni and family engagement; career development; student and postgraduate success; technology; and curriculum design. Share insights and critical information with the UDCC and its constituents.

· Oversee and manage major UDCC institutional programs assigned to the CAM subteam, including but not limited to, the Student Career Advancement Grant Programs, First-Year Seminar, and UNIV-364 coordination.

· Design and implement collaborative and scalable programs and engagement strategies to connect all undergraduate and graduate students to career experiences, preparation, resources, and programming.

· Lead early career engagement, preparation, and life design initiatives through University Studies, AAP, RLH, OTP, Pre-College Programs, the Graduate College, and other units working with first and second-year undergraduate and graduate students.

· Build and utilize knowledge and expertise in the use of Learning Management Systems such as CANVAS to build career content and assignments.

· Recognize and help change UD and UDCC policies, procedures, services, and programs that perpetuate inequities in students’ ability to pursue and achieve postgraduate success.

· Collaborate with Undergraduate Admissions and Pre–College Programs to develop and execute programming and resources to expand prospective students’ understanding of major selection, career, and life-design opportunities.

· Serve on university committees, boards, task forces, and cross-functional teams as requested.

Leadership & Management

· Lead, train, supervise, and evaluate the CAM subteam within the LDCI team.

· Provide direction and guidance of staff to build relationships and foster best practices with non-academic student services staff to ensure integration of career, industry, and professional development education into the student experience.

· Develop standards for maintaining trend knowledge in career fields, programming needs, and internal and external relations.

· Guide and lead team members in the functional areas of career counseling and coa