Job Description Summary

The Assistant Director of the Mock Interview Program will inspire stakeholders to support student career development in five major areas:

(1) Design, oversee, and grow a contemporary Mock Interview Program
(2) Recruit, train, and evaluate volunteer professionals and current students to serve as Peer Career Coaches,
(3) Provide general career advising to students from all majors pursuing various career sectors,
(4) Develop an engaging and effective Interview for Success Program, and,
(5) Work to engage employers, alumni and/or parents in programs and services in conjunction with the Employer Relations Team.

The Assistant Director will serve on the Career Development Team within CCES.

This position is campus-based but may have the option to work remotely on a hybrid basis (1-2 days/week) following an introductory period. Remote work is not a right, but a working arrangement that can be modified or revoked by Miami University at any time for any reason. Occasional weekends and evenings are required.

Essential Duties:

• Plan, promote, schedule, administer, and evaluate a contemporary Mock Interview Program that leverages new technologies and hiring trends to best prepare Miami University students to compete for their desired positions.  Serve the campus community as a career educator on multiple interview types including behavioral, case, coding, teacher education and more. Design a Mock Interview Program to support the training and education of mock interview participants and grow participation.  Prepare and share pertinent records and reports associated with assigned responsibilities.  Work collaboratively with the marketing and communications team, career advisors, faculty and staff to entice student participants.  Collaborate with career advisors to increase faculty engagement and classroom mock interview assignments.  

• Recruit, hire, train and provide on-going performance feedback to volunteer and student mock interviewers/peer career coaches. Work collaboratively with other CCES student employee supervisors to establish training criteria and delivery, performance recognition, and team meetings.

• Serve as back up career advisor during staff vacancies and during peak recruiting seasons across all career clusters or for students in designated academic divisions. 

• Oversee the Career Center’s  Interview for Success program, a workshop on interviewing skills  Create dynamic content, track student completion, schedule, evaluate, and customize delivery for various career clusters.

• Provide programming such as mock interview days for specific career clusters and present workshops and educational programs in a format that is engaging and conducive to student learning.  Work with the Employer Relations team to support employers who are looking to expand their diverse student recruiting efforts by engagement with mock interviews and Basic Interview programs.

• In solidarity to Miami University and CCES goals, support Inclusive Excellence by providing programming and outreach to high priority student populations as assigned and in collaboration with Career Center staff focused on this initiative.

• Teach first-year and/or career development courses as needed.  Assist in the coordination of office-wide special events, programs, workshops, and career fairs, and other events as needed.  Other duties as assigned.  

Minimum Qualifications: 

Master’s degree with one year of transferable experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree with experience in hiring candidates for full/part-time positions and/or student development at the collegiate level.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Teamwork

• Professional acumen

• Program and project management skills

• Problem-solving

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Experience working with diverse stakeholders

• Ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously