Associate/Assistant Director, Career Advising & Programming
About The Position
The Career Services Office (CSO) at Boston College Law School is hiring an Associate/Assistant Director, Career Advising & Programming to join their team. This role will advise JD students and alumni on career exploration and job search strategies, providing high-quality individual and group career advising for both private and public sector legal or legal-related positions, fellowships, judicial clerkships, and alternative or emerging careers. The successful candidate will also assist recent graduates in obtaining postgraduate employment. As part of the CSO team, this position will create, promote, facilitate, and lead training programs (in-person and virtual) on career options, application materials, interview preparation, job search processes, and other professional skills.
Requirements
- J.D. degree from accredited law school required
- Strong knowledge of legal and legal-related job market.
- Proven ability to take initiative, develop and execute new approaches, programs and solutions and multi-task.
- High degree of professionalism and customer-service orientation.
- Excellent listening and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment in decision making and problem solving.
- Ability to earn trust and relate to law students.
- Experience handling sensitive and confidential information.
- Interest in learning new technology
- Interest in staying current with developments in the legal industry and other industries where graduates have placement potential, and in the best practices for career services.
- Strong knowledge of best practices, techniques and standards for career counseling, coaching, advising and effective job search techniques.
Responsibilities
- Create and update career-related resources for students and alumni.
- Generate and strengthen professional contacts to aid student networking efforts.
- Engage in the outreach process of generating and strengthening professional contact base to aid student networking efforts.
- Help conduct outreach to employers to generate new employment opportunities for students and recent graduates.
- Monitor career trends in the legal and legal-related field.
- Aid students in aligning opportunities with potential career paths.
- Contribute to the department’s data-driven operations and report on key metrics and analytics.
- Coordinate mentoring, networking and other efforts with Director, Recruitment & Employer Outreach or others as appropriate and facilitate sharing information across the office and across departments.
- Work as a team to run events, programs, projects, and data collection/reporting duties and other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Tuition remission for Employees
- Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
- Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Low-Cost Life Insurance
- Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
- Paid Holidays Annually
- Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
