Director, Career Services at Boise

Job Description

The Director provides strategic and forward-looking management for the daily operations, fiscal planning, staff development, and delivery of student-centered, comprehensive career and internship services. Additionally, the Director markets the University and its students to employers; oversees student learning outcomes assessment; implements continuous improvement initiatives; launches new programs designed to meet evolving needs; and creates departmental effectiveness plans. The Director cultivates effective working relationships with the academic colleges, decentralized career offices, and other student affairs units while also serving as the primary public representative with employers, alumni, and other external constituents

• Leads monitoring and coordinating the campus/metro On-line and HireDeVry systems; ensures accurate reporting of all activity in the system and reviews/monitors all Advisors reporting into the system.
• Provides leadership and sets strategy, goals and objectives in order to meet employment goals.
• Plans and implements marketing strategies; helps cultivate long-term relationships with businesses to develop career opportunities and develops and implements strategies to maximize graduate employment to meet/exceed goals.
• Assists graduate school admissions personnel on closing potential Masters Degree students.
• Oversees the designing, coordination, implementation, and participation in student/alumni career services events, career fairs, graduation and related activities.
• Oversees the deployment of individual and group career advising sessions to both the undergraduate and graduate school populations using the self-directed approach for the graduate school population.
• Interviews and makes hiring decisions for Career Services applicants; directly supervises Career Services staff, and provides feedback and conducts performance reviews.
• Makes final decisions on Career Services new-hires and terminations, supervises staff, conducts performance reviews and provides feedback to employees during the year.
• Responsible for ensuring audit compliance with School and governmental regulations.
• Takes the lead with training staff on career search/transition techniques, job development and employer relations, HireDeVry documentation and Career Services policies and procedures.
• Works with Academics and coordinates the materials for the Career Development undergraduate class, which may include teaching the class, developing syllabi, determining course objectives and preparing materials for the course.
• Assists with designing and presenting any special reports/projects for accreditation and state approval process.
• Manages the employment statistics process, which includes collecting, verifying and reporting on employment statistics for the Campuses/metro.
• Participates in Advisory Boards, inter-campus relations and outreach committees/activities, external job fairs and Chamber of Commerce events; takes proactive approach to generate leads and promote DeVry.

• Bachelors degree required, Masters degree strongly preferred.
• 5 to 8 years combined experience in career service and employer relations required, preferably from an educational institution.
• Five years supervisory experience required.
• Excellent customer service, communication and problem solving skills required.
• PC skills and proficiency with word-processing, spreadsheet and web-based search engines and applications required.

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. Thank you for applying for this outstanding opportunity today.

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Country: USA, State: Idaho, City: Boise, Company: Carrington College.