Associate Director for Career Exploration and Development

Bowdoin College; Brunswick (ME); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Bowdoin College is seeking a Career Advisor to join the Office of Career Exploration and Development. This role will offer individual advising support to students pursuing careers in arts, communications, tech, and more. Responsibilities include building relationships with alumni, developing career programs, and working with faculty. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree, strong interpersonal skills, and at least four years of relevant experience. This full-time position requires some evening and weekend hours during peak periods.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills.
• Proven program planning and execution skills.
• Excellent writing and public speaking skills.
• Facility with technology-based search tools.
• Vision, creativity, and a sense of humor.
• Four or more years of relevant experience.
• Experience in recruiting, training, or supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual advising support for students.
• Build relationships with alumni and parents for networking.
• Oversee student outreach and career programming.
• Collaborate with faculty on programming.
• Work effectively with diverse backgrounds.

Skills

Interpersonal communication skills

Program planning and execution

Writing and public speaking skills

Networking skills

Comfort with technology-based tools

Creativity and vision

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LinkedIn

CRM databases

Job description

Overview

The Office of Career Exploration and Development (“CXD”) is seeking to hire a career advisor with professional experience working in any of the following fields: arts, communications, marketing, tech, media, or entrepreneurship. In addition to professional industry experience, this is a great role for someone with experience in college career advising, as a hiring manager, recruiter or trainer of interns or entry-level professionals. This role will advise a portfolio of students and create programming to serve the needs of those exploring and pursuing careers in those fields. The position will build and maintain relationships with alumni and parents who often volunteer to network with students and provide CXD with job and internship opportunities and serve as recruiting partners. The Associate Director will also work closely with CXD’s employer engagement team to build and maintain relationships with employers in these industries. The position will also liaise with faculty to collaborate on joint programming and advising. The Associate Director will serve as an advisor to Bowdoin student pre-professional clubs in these fields. This position reports to the Director of Career Advising.

Responsibilities

• Career field advising expert. Provide individual student advising support (both in person, via zoom, and via email) and develop career programs and services to aid students in exploring and pursuing internships and full-time employment in relevant fields.
• Industry liaison responsibilities. Build and maintain relationships with alumni, parents, and other College supporters who work in these fields as well as with employers to grow student access to connections for networking, internships, and job opportunities. Develop and update content for weekly career sector newsletters and related CXD content areas to connect students with up-to-date resources and guidance accessible outside of advising.
• Career field programming responsibilities. Oversee student outreach and education programs for these fields including skill-building workshops and alumni and parent speakers. Serve as advisor to, and collaborator with, student pre-professional clubs.
• Collaborate closely with faculty in related subject areas.
• Inclusive competence. Work effectively with students, faculty, staff, employers, and alumni representing a variety of backgrounds; review the annual mix of programs and presentations with an eye for equitable access to opportunity (mix of programming, accessibility, and appeal to all potentially interested students).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to build rapport with students, hold a coaching conversation, and demonstrate active listening.
• Proven program planning and execution skills, demonstrating excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent writing, public speaking, and networking skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of campus constituencies, and leverage relationships with alumni, parents, faculty, and staff.
• Facility/comfort with technology-based search and networking tools (e.g. LinkedIn, customer relationship management type databases).
• Vision, creativity, imagination, and a great sense of humor.
• Four or more years of work experience in at least one of the relevant career fields (arts, communications, tech, media, marketing, entrepreneurship).
• Experience working directly in recruiting, training, or supervision of entry level professionals or employees, managing large graduate or undergraduate internship programs or serving as an advisor to students or recent graduates.

Standard Work Days & Hours

Generally, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm while students are on campus with some night and weekend hours especially during peak periods of semester (September-October and January-February). This is a full-time, .92 FTE (40/hrs for48 weeks per year) . This is an exempt position requiring the time commitment necessary to successfully complete job requirements.