Associate Director Of Student Career Program

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Associate Director of Student Career Program
Duties: Reporting to the Director of the Career Planning Office at Law School, responsible for increasing student and alumni engagement with the Career Planning Office; managing counselors’ efforts to assist alumni in securing employment; expanding opportunities for post-graduate employment with alumni-employers, especially, those of interest to recent graduates; and overseeing data collection and reporting of employment data required by regulatory authorities. Analyze past participation rates of student engagement, set benchmarks for elevating the level of second- and third-year student interaction with the Career Planning office. Develop and implement a plan to raise the level of involvement through changes to the Career Planning Office’s program. Oversee the introduction and subsequent implementation of a mandatory Career Planning counseling requirement for second-year law students and explore ways to engage third-year students in their clinic semester. Identify employment areas of greatest interest to the most recent graduated class and from this data implement a plan to cultivate job opportunities in the areas identified. Work with the Alumni Relations and Institutional Advancement departments of the law school to conduct outreach to friends and alumni of the Law School to cultivate more employment prospects related to those areas of greatest interest.Work with the Alumni Office to develop a program to create more opportunities for recent graduates and current students to meet with and be mentored by Law alumni and friends who practice in areas of greatest interest to students/graduates. Create and execute a plan that will better blend the efforts of Career Planning to promote career readiness with the advice and assistance that other Law School departments (Student Affairs, Academic Affairs) and faculty give to current students. Develop programs to address mid-career related concerns of Law alumni who have graduated 5+ years from the Law School. Improve collection of data on student pro bono activities as well as student employment outcomes including post-graduate employment of the most recent graduated class as well as summer and school term internships. Participate in the redesign of the Career Planning website to improve student/alumni access to general advice, information and resources and in the design of a mandatory one credit Career Planning course. Supervise Career Planning staff; act in the absence of the Director.

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