Assistant Director & Career Coach

Assistant Director & Career Coach

About Champlain College:
Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, private, not-for-profit college in Burlington, Vermont overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack mountains, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Its career-driven approach to higher education prepares students for professional life from their very first semester. For the fifth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" 2020 regional rankings and listed among The Princeton Review's "The Best 385 Colleges" in 2020. Champlain is also featured in the 2021 Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain and is recognized as a 2020 College of Distinction for its "Engagement, Teaching, Community, and Outcomes. The College offers 30 undergraduate degrees as well as online undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.

Champlain's Career Collaborative is the centralized career center at Champlain College and provides comprehensive, innovative career development to undergraduate, graduate students and its alumni, and actively prepares students with meaningful opportunities for internships and career-relevant employment. Additionally, Career Collaborative manages a nationally recognized Future Readiness initiative in a program called InSight.  

Job Description:
As the Career Collaborative Assistant Director & Career Coach your work will directly impact the career trajectory of Champlain undergraduate and graduate students and alumni. Coaching those in the Communication & Creative Media (CCM) program, your caseload will be infused with a passion for art, writing, games, music, film, and innovation. You will support students as they move in the direction of their aspirations and become practitioners and thriving creators and communicators.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive career development and management to students and alumni
• Advise on career collaterals (resumes, cover letters, career marketing plans, social media profiles)
• Teach students how to perform effective job searching and networking
• Administer career-related assessment instruments to ascertain interests, motivators, and skills for career success and satisfaction
• Conduct mock interviews
• Customize marketing strategies
• Devise plans and execute on marketing and promoting  Champlain students and career programs/events in local, regional, national, and international markets
• Leverage existing career management platforms, social media, and new technologies
• Maintain an efficient and accurate record-keeping system of employer relations efforts
• Work closely with external partners (employers, recruiters, alumni, parents) to support expanded career opportunities for students
• Actively Collaborate with internal partners to cultivate new and existing relationships
• Solicits, compiles, and share data concerning career outcomes for every graduating class in each program that comply with national and international standards of career outcome reporting
• In collaboration with the AVP assist in drafting annual reports, employment reports, alumni surveys, and other career-related information used for College reporting, benchmarking reporting, and career success reporting based on protocols outlined by national and international standards
• Support the programs and activities in the Career Collaborative
• Serve as an information resource for prospective students, parents, employers and community partners, and Champlain faculty and staff

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of two years of work experience is required. Master's degree in a relevant field is preferred
• Demonstrated experience working in career coaching
• Proven skills in external outreach to employers, business partners, and community members
• Demonstrated experience and commitment to working with diverse populations
• Experience with career-related software systems (Handshake, Symplicity CRM, Blackbaud, CareerShift, and others) preferred

Additional Information:
The successful completion of a criminal background check is required as a condition of employment.

Application materials must include a resume/CV and a letter of interest (Cover Letter) specifically addressing the desired qualifications.

Champlain College does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, religion, age, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, veteran or military service status, HIV -positive status, qualified disability, or on the basis of any other status protected by law, and does not discriminate in the administration of its education and admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, employment practices or co-curricular and other College-administered programs. Champlain College will make reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified students, applicants for admission or employment, or employees. Please contact the People Center at 802.651.5800 with questions concerning the hiring process or future employment at Champlain College, or if auxiliary aids or services are needed to apply for employment at Champlain College.

Champlain College is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community. Recognizing that diversity is both a reflection of our world and a source of rich education, Champlain strives to be diverse and inclusive in ways that reflect the world in which we live and work. All members of the Champlain community are valued as individuals.

The College seeks candidates who, through their work and life experiences, service to the community, teaching or research can contribute to the diversity, inclusivity and academic excellence of Champlain College. Please include information about how you would contribute to these efforts and help to further this goal in your letter of interest/cover letter.

Application Instructions:
In order to be considered for the position, you must upload a resume.

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https://www.champlain.edu/privacy/eu-employee-data-protection-notice

For more information and to apply, please go to https://champlain.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=56BD8E6F991C79E75AC08B29BD26898F?JOBID=136300