Career Management Specialist

Posting Summary
Rutgers University-Camden is seeking a Career Management Specialist. Reporting to the Assistant Director for the Career Advancement Center a department focused on helping students develop career goals and skills from their first year through graduation and beyond the Career Management Specialist will play an essential role in supporting our mission to enhance post-graduate options with a focus on pre-professional professions. As the coach for our pre-professional studies initiatives the career management specialist will provide targeted outreach and support programming and initiatives for all undergraduate students to raise awareness about Rutgers-Camden graduate programs assist with post-graduation planning and support graduate school selection and application. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing cohort experiences for these target populations to ensure undergraduate students interested in prestigious professional or health-related graduate schools/programs have the resources and support they need to be competitive in their applications. Additionally this position will provide one-to-one coaching to students and alumni on complex career issues and individual career development plans which may include academic major and career decisions resume and cover letter critiques job search correspondence interview practice and career readiness. Performs student engagement initiatives; responsible for creating implementing and executing seminars classroom presentations programs and events that strengthen student career readiness. This position will be responsible for designing and executing relevant programming building community among cohorts and providing holistic coaching and advisement including making appropriate referrals. The incumbent shares responsibility for collecting data for events appointments and other key metrics and contributing to regular reports developing systems to identify and track students who plan to attend graduate professional programs. As a member of the Division for Student Academic Success the career management specialist will be expected to support the office and our larger division with all retention initiatives including campus-wide programming for new and continuing students recruitment and coaching. This position will also collaborate with other academic schools and units across the campus and university with a focus on building strong partnerships with student organizations and faculty supporters. We seek a highly motivated and organized individual who is committed to engaging students with curiosity and compassion and who shares our mission of providing equitable access to opportunities and resources that will equip students for success now and in the long term thereby improving their outcomes and better equipping them for lifelong success.

Overview
Ranked #46 in U.S. News & World Report s list of Best Public Colleges and Universities Rutgers UniversityCamden is a diverse research-intensive campus of approximately 6100 students at the undergraduate graduate and doctoral levels and 1100 faculty and staff members. Located in Camden N.J. directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia the university is uniquely situated to serve the local community while achieving global reach. A U.S. Department of Education-designated Minority Serving Institution the university thrives due to a supportive culture that helps students achieve their goals and fosters collaboration among employees. RutgersCamden is recognized as a national model for civically engaged urban universities and was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for a Community Engagement classification. Washington Monthly magazine has ranked Rutgers UniversityCamden among its Best Bang for the Buck universities and best national research universities. Recently RutgersCamden earned Carnegie classification as an R2 research university due to a high volume of internationally recognized research creative output and scholarly activity.

Preferred Qualifications
Masters degree in counseling social work human resources or related discipline preferred.