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Assistant Director Of Career Development, Public Interest

Duties: Reporting to the Assistant Dean of Career Development, will be developing and coordinating job opportunities for students and alumni with a particular emphasis on public interest employment. Develops and interprets internal and external policies affecting the operations of the Career Development Office. Makes recommendations and implements decision on administrative/operational issues affecting strategically important department functions. Develops goals to meet the department's objectives. Provides employment counseling and career education for law students and alumni. Develops relations with the legal employment community and expands the traditional and non-traditional employment market scope both substantively and geographically. Builds relations with bar associations for networking and employment opportunities. Teaches, advises, and counsels law students and alumni in their career development and all phases of the job search process. Provides job placement assistance to law students and alumni. Develops career planning and placement publications, brochures, handbooks, and handouts. Extends all facets of career services to assist alumni. Provides career counseling to students during advising sessions including: development and critique of application materials, tips on interviewing, general or specific career advice, recommendation of appropriate resources/contacts to achieve students' career objectives. Assists in planning relevant programming to explore concepts of career satisfaction and options within and outside the legal profession. Assists in developing, planning and implementing career programs and workshops that bring legal employers and others to the Law School to educate students about the practice of law. Provides written materials and advises students about post-graduate public interest fellowship opportunities, deadlines, and application procedures. Assists students with preparing post-graduate public interest fellowship applications and interviews. Establishes and maintains relationships with organizations that provide post-graduate public interest fellowships. Facilitates networking opportunities for students with employers. Works closely with the Assistant Dean to design, administer, and facilitate the UCI Law Public Interest Fellowship Program. Contributes substantively to program design and administration, communication with prospective and selected Fellows, coordination with Host Organizations, and other programmatic needs. Assists in strategic implementation of ongoing fellowship needs, including market analysis and assessment of program goals.

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