Associate Director Private Sector Programs

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Associate Director, Private Sector Programs
The candidate will assist J.D. students and the members of its 10,000+ alumni community, in particular those interested in pursuing private sector legal careers, in shaping and attaining their short- and long-term career goals. As a well-connected, knowledgeable expert on the legal job market, will accomplish this by providing individually tailored, client-driven career counseling as well as by creating, planning, developing, and implementing cutting-edge programs, networking events, other activities(including social media), services, and resources that address a full array of traditional as well as non-traditional private sector practice areas and settings. Assist in maintaining the Career Development Office's current employer relationships as well as engage in employer outreach efforts to cultivate new relationships to ensure students have the best available access to private sector networking and job opportunities as soon as they present themselves. Research, and analyze the current state of the private sector legal services and legal job markets and forecasts emerging trends in those markets. Identify existing and up-and-coming career and job options, assess (on a continuing basis) their short-and long-term feasibility for alumni attorneys, and explore alternatives to traditional legal practice. Research and periodically assess the evolving career development needs of students interested in private sector work. Based on this on-going research, analysis, assessment and trend-spotting, design and develop, and implement an array of workshops and programs, services, and resources (including online guides and webcasts) to meet the career needs of students interested in pursuing a career in the private sector. Recommend and manage improvements, revisions, changes, and adjustments to the existing array of career consulting services, programs, and resources and devise, develop and implement entirely new services, programs and resources. Liaise with various other Law School departments and individuals to understand their needs and goals and explore and develop mutually beneficial programs, resources, and services. Develop and maintain the Law School's professional network of potential employers, other law school legal career professionals, and others in the legal field who may be in a position to provide information and assistance to students interested in pursuing private sector work. Maintain and enhance own professional network and leverage it on behalf of students and alumni. Establish new positive working relationships with law firm recruiters, in-house legal departments, corporations, (and others who may be of assistance to private sector oriented students (and who may be of assistance in fundraising and in enhancing the campus's relationship with outside organizations). Develop and oversee presentation and delivery of broad and complex career-focused programs, events workshops, and resources. Coordinate with Career Services administrative staff and Event Services Unit on specific administrative tasks to support private sector programming (e.g., room reservations, catering arrangements, drafting and posting event announcements, etc.). Determine, based on knowledge of technical systems, the most innovative and effective media for delivering content - online, print, blogs, social networking website posts, twitter, live webcasting, etc. Provide one-on-one, individually tailored and client-driven career consulting services to students interested in pursuing private sector careers (a particularly complex area that require specialized expertise). Assist students in conducting their own self-assessments. Provide students not only with general advice based on his/her expert knowledge of the private sector legal market but specific job leads and networking contacts developed through continuing cultivation and expansion of the Law School's and own professional network. Participate in panel discussions and presentations and research and write articles relating to the private sector legal job market and the provision of private sector career services through local and national recruitment associations, like the Bay Area Legal Recruiters Association and the National Association for Law Placement, and other legal organizations, like the American Association of Law Schools and the American Bar Association, and even through the local and national press as the opportunities arise.

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