Director of Career Services Kahn School of Law
Director of Career Services Kahn School of Law
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Job Description
The anticipated start date for this position is April 7 2025.
Minimum Qualifications
- Juris Doctor from an ABAapproved law school
- Significant relevant experience in legal education and/or the legal profession
- Willingness to contribute actively to the mission vision goals and objectives of the School and University
- Exceptional emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills sufficient to inspire and work effectively with School of Law faculty and staff and with a varied student and alumni population
- Excellent counseling listening and oral and written communication skills
- Strong problemsolving project management marketing and networking skills
- Knowledge of the legal market and profession
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality of information
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in law school student career services or in the legal recruiting industry including experience counseling students or attorneys navigating career decisions
- Prior managerial experience supervising other personnel and in providing budgetary oversight
- Experience developing a strong network of contacts in the legal community
- Experience preparing and delivering presentations
- Active engagement in professional organizations that seek to improve legal education and/or the legal profession such as disciplinespecific organizations and bar associations
Essential Functions
- Develop programming that facilitates students ability both to identity the career goals most consistent with their interests and talents and to achieve those goals
- Advise and oversee others who advise students and alumni on career and professional development issues including practice area and practice setting exploration interview assistance resume and cover letter review and networking guidance
- Develop Initiatives to support faculty advisors in their provision of career planning counseling to students
- Plan and implement an innovative marketing strategy to develop and expand recruitment opportunities student and alumni have with legal employers
- Oversee oncampus and virtual interview opportunities for students and alumni
- Develop and maintain relationships with potential employers
- Oversee compliance with ABA standards related to career services and employment outcomes and manage the law schools reporting of employment outcomes data to the ABA
- Generate employmentrelated data for periodic reporting to law school surveying organizations such as NALP US News and Princeton Review
- Represent the Career Services Office externally including presentations to employers legal professional organizations and other constituents
- Supervise other personnel in the Career Services Office
- Oversee the Careers Services Office budget and related financial matters
- In consultation with the Dean and the Deans designees set policies for the Career Services Office
- Travel to attend national and regional meetings and workshops to stay updated on issues related to law school career services
- Collaborate with the Associate Dean of Admissions to support law school student recruiting and travel to represent the law school at national and regional admissions events
- Other duties as assigned by the Dean
Accountability
Reports to the Law Dean
Application Instructions
Applicants must submit the following in one single document; 1 a cover letter expressing their interest in the position; 2 their curriculum vitae with a complete professional and academic history; and 3 names and contact information of three professional references.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis so interested individuals are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. For more information regarding this position please contact April Hisey Director of Administration at
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
