Career Coach or Senior Career Coach

The Career Coach works within the Center for Global and Career Education (CGCE), in the Career Education (CE) team, and assumes responsibility for a significant career-coaching case load. The Career Coach also oversees the Peer Career Coach (PCC) program, in which pre-professional student peer coaches assist the professional coaching team. The program has decentralized supervision of PCCs by their partner professional coaches, but the incumbent in this position oversees the overall PCC program learning goals and outcomes and ongoing training of PCCs. The Career Coach also supports other team members in promotion of Career Education events and opportunities, delivery of career education curriculum and content, and maintenance or relationships with community, graduate school, and career-related partners.

This position is an 11-month position.

Career Coaching (50%, approximately 20 hours per week)

Direct Career Coaching: Meet with and coach students in both one-on-one appointments and group settings and meetings, employing an appreciative advising model to provide developmentally appropriate advising, support, and mentorship of students as they explore academic, professional, and personal development. Support students in their processes of career discernment.

• Utilize Handshake for student appointment scheduling and tracking
• Participate in campus programming and classroom visits to address students’ Earlham experiences (aka: EPIC Journeys), such as first-year seminars, initiatives related to the College Student Inventory (CSI), and more.
• Track advisees’ progress in the academic, experiential, and other steps undertaken to advance their professional goals, and assist them in assessing their progress and making adjustments to their approach over time.
• Assist students in the creation and updating of professional documents, including resumes/CVs, cover letters, graduate school admissions and fellowship essays, LinkedIn and other online professional profiles, and their individual portfolios.

Career Education (15%, approximately 6 hours per week)

Career Community Administration: Convene an advisory team of faculty, alumni and/or employers for one Career Community (likely the Science and the Environment Career Community). Develop and deliver timely and relevant career education/exploration resources and opportunities to students associated with the Career Community through various online platforms, email outreach, and in other venues.

• Stay up-to-date on available internship, research, and study abroad experiences related to assigned Career Community, as well as potential careers in that Community.
• Serve as the point person for campus event programming related to assigned Community, working in collaboration with the Center for Environmental Leadership and other relevant campus units.
• Work with, hire, and supervise a small team of Peer Career Coaches (2-3) with the same Career Community assignment.
• Assist in training student Peer Career Coaches (all teams) on resources related to assigned Community.
• Develop and maintain relationships with faculty and other campus personnel in support of the overall purpose and goals of the assigned Career Community.
• Assist in developing and maintaining relationships with relevant employers and/or graduate/professional schools for the purpose of identifying internship and/or full-time employment opportunities for students within the assigned Career Community.
• Keep abreast of industry news and relay relevant information to student advisees.

Peer Career Coach Program (20%, approximately 8 hours per week)

Peer Career Coach (PCC) Program: Take the lead in developing and implementing a comprehensive program that utilizes student workers to expand the delivery of Career Education programming on campus.

• Develop and implement hiring practices and timelines for annual recruitment of PCCs; search for and hire PCCs for assigned Career Community
• Develop and implement onboarding and continuing general training for all PCCs
• Work collaboratively with other Career Education (CE) team members to identify goals and outcomes for the PCCs relative to the goals of the unit (CE) and department (CGCE)
• Take the lead in designing, implementing, and administering ongoing assessment of student learning and outcomes for PCCs
• Supervise, mentor, and give continual feedback to PCCs
• Work collaboratively with other CE team members to develop and implement a process for assigning ad hoc tasks/projects to PCCs
• Work collaboratively with the Director to set annual budgets for the PCC program based on available funding from donors, grants, and departmental budgets. Take the lead in ensuring the allocated funds are spent in accordance with the set budget and donor/grant requirements.

Tech Tools Lead (10%, approximately 4 hours per week)

Serve as team lead in managing certain tech tools: Take the lead in ensuring that CE stays up-to-date with and best utilizes a few of our tech tools, including Handshake, EC connect (People Grove), and Big Interview.

• Handle periodic (weekly or biweekly) data imports from Argos reports drawn from Banner into Handshake in order to ensure that the CE team has access to the most current information possible.
• Assist with the data integration between Banner and Handshake and ensure that the integration works properly once it has been completed.
• Serve as the primary CE contact for the EC connect platform (which runs on People Grove software) and promote the availability and usefulness of the platform among Earlham students. Ensure that student-alumni interaction is facilitated via this platform.
• Stay abreast of the updates and functionalities of Big Interview, and assist other CE team members as well as colleagues from across the CGCE, EPIC, and the campus in making good use of the system.

Other Duties (5%, approximately 2 hours per week)

Professional development: Participate regularly in regional, national, or international professional development opportunities and networks.

Board/committee service: Serve on various boards and committees, as appropriate to the CE, CGCE, and EPIC missions.

Ad hoc assignments: Complete other duties as requested by the Senior Director.

• For Career Coach: Bachelor’s degree and at least introductory (1 year) experience in college-level career advising and/or a closely related field, such as: experiential education, internship programming, or human resources. For Senior Career Coach: Bachelor’s degree and at least three years of relevant experience, preferably including at least one year in Career Education.
• Demonstrated skill in and passion for working with undergraduate students
• Demonstrated interpersonal relationship-building skills and experience working with a wide range of constituents, including employers, faculty, students, and alumni
• Experience communicating with and supporting people from diverse backgrounds and an expressed commitment to uphold and further Earlham’s Diversity Aspirations Vision Statement
• Ability to maintain high level of confidentiality
• Clear understanding of and affinity with the purposes and values of a private residential liberal arts college and a demonstrated ability to work with teaching faculty
• Experience and comfort with digital tools and technology, including social media
• Commitment to high visibility on campus and in the community
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced office
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, particularly in translating the value of the liberal arts into graduate outcomes

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of current professional practices and challenges in career-education programming
• Knowledge of or experience in liberal-arts settings in higher education
• Experience in program creation, planning, implementation and assessment
• Familiarity with the Handshake platform (or another career education-related platform)
• Familiarity with Moodle (or another Learning Management System)
• Some graduate study or post-bac course work
• For Senior Career Coach: Master’s degree in a relevant discipline

Please submit the following application materials in a single electronic file:

• Cover letter;
• Resume;
• Statement on Diversity: The Statement on Diversity should describe how your values and leadership frame or center Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in your work.
• Contact information for three references.

All materials should be submitted to the Earlham College Human Resources Office at: HR@earlham.edu.