Program Support Specialist (Career Counseling Part Time)

Posting Summary
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Program Support Specialist (Career Counseling Part Time) for the Office for Students Affairs within the School of Public Health ( SPH ) located in Piscataway NJ. Under direction of the Assistant Dean for Student Experiences & Alumni Affairs ( SEAA ) the Program Support Specialist (Career Counseling) is responsible for providing career advisement to enhance the academic and co-curricular experience of students and alumni at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Works with a high degree of autonomy and maintains communication with university/ RBHS student services the SEAA unit and necessary faculty and staff within the school to ensure all efforts are student-centered. Duties include: Performs a wide range of career counseling including individual and group career counseling to all certificate MPH MS PhD and DrPH graduate students both in-person and virtually on topics including resume/CV/cover letter reviews job search strategy assistance informational interviews networking guidance career assessments and transitions interview practice and coaching and salary/offer negotiation assistance. Designs and implements small and large group workshops in the following critical areas: resume writing job search interviewing and other professional areas relevant to Public Health. Serves as primary contact for employer relations and recruitment responsible for coordinating employer info sessions onboarding employers to the career services/job board system analyzing employer relations data and establishing campus recruitment policies and procedures. Recruit employer representatives manages student/alumni registration and coordinates all materials and staffing for annual School of Public Health Career Fair. Serves as liaison with career services online management systems. Responsible for onboarding staff and students to career services online management systems that SPH uses.

Overview
New Jerseys academic health center Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ) takes an integrated approach to educating students providing clinical care and conducting research all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick and collaborating university wide RBHS includes eight schools a behavioral health network and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research neuroscience advanced biotechnology and medicine environmental and occupational health and health care policy and aging research. Our faculty are teachers clinicians and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine dentistry pharmacy public health nursing biomedical research and the full spectrum of allied health careers. Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the stateat Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark Scotch Plains Somerset Stratford and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick Newarks University Hospital in Newark and other affiliates. Through this community of healers scientists and scholars Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Preferred Qualifications
Masters Degree in Public Health Counseling Social Work or Student Affairs. Previous experience in career counseling with public health and/or health-related program.