Career Coach

Louisiana State University•Baton Rouge, LA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Reporting to a Manager for Student Services, this position serves as a member of the student services team for the LSU Olinde Career Center. Provides career coaching to students and alumni, potentially focused on a specific population or industry cluster. Empowers students to explore their major and careers, understand themselves, and gain experience to complement their academic careers and achieve their post-graduation definition of success. Expands the career ecosystem within the broader university by building professional relationships with faculty and campus partners, providing resources and support to integrate the Ready to Roar framework into all aspects of the LSU student experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
One year of professional related work experience.
Two years of graduate assistantship qualifies.
LSU values skills, experience, and expertise. Candidates who have relevant experience in key job responsibilities are encouraged to apply— a degree is not required as long as the candidate meets the required years of experience specified in the job description.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in higher education administration, college student development, college student personnel administration, or a closely related field.
Experience working in a university career services office.

Responsibilities

Provides guidance, coaching and support to students throughout their career development process; including major/career exploration; experience building; and professional transition.
Designs and implements programmatic efforts to scale career readiness services and resources.
Liaise with faculty, campus partners, academic departments, and employers to promote career development and advance the Ready to Roar career readiness proficiencies.
Coach undergraduate and graduate students, along with alumni, individually on holistic career development topics, providing front line advocacy and support.
Translates department efforts, initiatives, and goals to students through interactions at programs, services, events and experiences.
Expands a culture of career within the LSU community at large, propagates the importance of gaining work experience that complements academic majors, and preparing for a transition to life after college (employment or graduate study).
Liaise with academic departments, faculty and campus staff to promote career development and readiness for students.
Communicates with appropriate administrators, staff, and faculty about the career development needs of their students and develop plans to address those needs.
Ensures every aspect of programmatic outputs including administrative tasks, implementation, and overall design exudes a high degree of quality.
Embraces and executes the marginal gains approach and seeks to improve level of all services, events, programs, and experiences in the department for continuous improvement every academic year.
Other duties as assigned by the Senior Director and direct supervisor.
Engages in continuous development through participation in campus, local, regional, and national professional organization opportunities.
This includes but is not limited to: efforts that support broad division/institution efforts such as Move-In Day, Welcome Week, Family Weekend, Disability Services Finals Testing, other special projects, etc.