Assistant Dean For Career Services

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Assistant Dean for Career Services
Duties: Provide leadership and management to the OCPD team. Oversee and assess effectiveness of all career and professional development programs, including relevant workshops and interview preparation. Maintain an employment tracking system that allows office to monitor each student’s progress and provides the Dean with accurate employment information. Work with the Director of Employer Relations to plan, organize, and implement an employer relations program that enhances and expands alumni contacts and other employment opportunities for students. Maintain documentation as necessary to comply with ABA and NALP reporting requirements. Supervise and monitor the preparation of employment reports consistent with ABA and NALP requirements. Maintain employment documentation as required by the ABA and NALP to comply with Touro Law Center’s reporting requirements. Develop materials, programs and plans to support career counseling meetings with each individual student beginning in the first semester of the 1L year through post-graduation employment. Maintain an employment tracking system that records counseling notes on each student counseling session beginning in the first semester of the first year and continues through post-graduation employment. Train ad manage all OCPD career counselors on appropriate student tracking protocol. Provide updates to the Dean as requested regarding student employment data for each class. Supervise the Director of Employer Relations to maintain and expand the number and type of employers who participate in externships, internships and post­ graduate employment. Conduct weekly team meetings that include the review of employment numbers, and individual student challenges. Maintain job search time-line for full-time, part-time and evening-division students. Work closely with the Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni Affairs to assist in maintaining a database of alumni and employer contacts for OCPD outreach. Oversee and help develop each career counselor’s student outreach efforts. Prepare annual report to the Dean outlining OCPD’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats during the previous academic year. In addition, include a plan for the upcoming year that address each of the weaknesses and opportunities identified, and mitigates any threats. Develop and present a program outlining OCPD’s approach and services for incoming 1L students. Institute a plan to assign each incoming 1 L student with a career counselor to assist the student with his or hers employment goal and track the student’s career objectives through post-graduate employment. Develop and maintain OCPD’s web site with protected access for students describing OCPD programs and providing written resources to assist students with employment goals. Develop and institute interview preparation services for students and alumni. Design and implement programs for students on job search strategies and the changing legal marketplace. Establish an annual outreach effort to New York state government entities and federal government regional and national offices. Develop contacts with local and regional law firms in the Long Island and NYC marketplace. Attend student and alumni events as needed. Participate actively in the New York Bar Association Committee on Careers and Management. Serve on institutional committees and work groups as assigned by the Dean. Participate in bar association and professional organizations that increase the visibility of Law School.

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