| Location: Illinois: Chicago Job Description: - Successfully counsel and drive outcomes (summer, academic year, full-time, research, or graduate opportunities) for all students through personalized advising and outreach (e.g., maintaining individual advising schedule through Handshake, email/virtual communication with students)
- Support development of, organize logistics for, deliver high-quality and engaging programming (student workshops, events, competitions and other) at a large or small scale as needed
- Cultivate and maintain relationships with Careers In Programs, Career Advancement staff, campus partners, and student organizations as needed
- Support leadership to maintain efficient methods to track student data and quantify student engagement to continuously inform team strategy
- Support administrative/logistical and project management needs of the team as needed, including management of front desk phone, email, and in-person operations for Career Advancement office
- Develops original content for career related publications and assists with the editing and distribution of Career Services communications materials.
- Provides guidance and training to student career counselor interns.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications Experience: - Experience in higher education.
Technical Skills - Expertise in counseling, program development, or a related area.
- Knowledge of career development theory and strong coaching or counseling skills.
Preferred Competencies - Deep commitment to customer service, ability to prioritize and balance different work streams, meet deadlines, and work successfully in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated success in maintaining collaborative relationships with diverse constituencies.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Strong interpersonal, quantitative, and networking skills.
- Experience developing and delivering presentations.
- Ability to communicate to large groups as well as one-on-one with students, senior management, faculty, and alumni.
- Experience working with college-aged students and/or recent college graduates strongly preferred; experience developing and managing an internship program a plus.
- Expertise in program development, or a related area.
- Prior small-group program management and/or event planning experience.
- Successful experience working both independently and in cross-functional teams.
- Strong coaching or counseling skills.
- Strong leadership qualities, including both the ability to execute, thereby leading by work and example,.
- Self-directed, results-oriented work ethic.
Application Documents - Resume (required)
- Cover Letter/Statement of Interest (required)
- Three Professional References (required)
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