Career Educator, Beyond Tomorrow Scholars Program

University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC

1d • CA$6,748 - CA$9,701

About The Position

The Career Educator supports UBC students, particularly those within the Beyond Tomorrow Scholars Program and other specialized student populations, to become career-ready graduates. This role involves connecting student talents, interests, and education to the evolving world of work. The Career Educator works strategically with campus partners to leverage disciplinary learning and high-impact experiences, broadening the approach to career development. The primary responsibility is to support student learning and promote engagement in career-building experiences within and beyond the university. This includes designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating in-person and online career learning, with a focus on identity-informed, program-based, and community-connected experiences. In collaboration with various departments and program teams, the Career Educator aims to achieve results in five key areas: developing and delivering career building experiences, expanding opportunities for student engagement with employers and community partners (especially those connected to Black student communities), improving digital and online career resources, embedding career learning into experiential and co-curricular activities, and contributing to strategic planning, administration, assessment, and evaluation. The role applies career learning theories, analyzes labor market trends, and uses advising, coaching, facilitation, and program design practices with an equity-focused and identity-informed lens.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of three to four years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.
• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree an asset.
• Certified Coach (from verified credentialing body) preferred.
• Certification in StrengthsFinder, or other human capital assessment tools is an asset.
• Coaching or advising experience - ideally in a career development context; experience in a post-secondary environment.
• Four or more years experience working with faculty, students and staff in a post secondary institution.
• Experience in career education, university/college student affairs, human resources, business or related field.
• Knowledge and understanding of career learning theories, trends and principles, and student engagement best practices required.
• Facilitation or teaching experience.
• Experience in designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating career related content in workshop or group settings.
• Experience using design thinking methodology and facilitation.
• Knowledgeable of career trends in the changing world of work.
• Industry knowledge and expertise; awareness of labor market trends.
• Demonstrated experience working with Black people, organizations and communities.
• An understanding of Black student experiences, particularly as they relate to post-secondary education, and an appreciation of the complexity and range of Black people and communities within the context of Canada.
• Must have a strong commitment to advancing the educational aspirations of Black students and/or other students from historically, persistently, or systemically marginalized communities.
• Experience in creating content for online spaces.
• Experience using web-based platforms and instructional technology to teach and engage students in career development.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven ability to coach and advise students one-to-one and in group settings.
• Exceptional presentation and public speaking skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in an intercultural environment.
• Demonstrated commitment to the principles and values of a diverse and inclusive campus community.
• Demonstrated process design facilitation skills, and familiarity with a wide variety of facilitation approaches and techniques.
• Demonstrated project management skills, with strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders and ability to prioritize work effectively under competing deadlines.
• Demonstrated competence in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs or events.
• Ability to find, synthesize, and translate literature, research material, trends, and best practices for capacity building amongst colleagues and stakeholders.
• Ability to work both independently and within multiple team environments.
• Ability to think strategically and exercise diplomacy, tact, and discretion.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct respectful consultation and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver engaging career building experiences that support students’ career education and professional development.
• Expand students’ opportunities to engage with employers, alumni and community and industry partners.
• Improve the quantity and quality of digital, online content and support the development and curation of other career related resources.
• Embed career learning in other forms of experiential learning, Work Integrated Learning, and in high impact learning experiences.
• Participate in the assessment and evaluation of career learning for students, including Beyond Tomorrow Scholars Program (BTSP). Collect and record statistical information and feedback, analyze, document and report results, integrate suggestions and improvements into programs and services.
• Contribute to strategic planning processes and the setting of goals and priorities for the work.
• Influence multiple stakeholders to create and set direction, persuade action, and achieve consensus toward collective aspirations and goals related to career building experiences.
• Assist in marketing and promotion of programs and events to students, alumni, faculty, academic departments, and the workplace community.
• Assist in training professional staff, student staff and volunteers, including peer leaders and coaches.
• Operate from a place of professional practice in consideration of professional standards including but not limited to CAS (Council for Advancement of Standards in Higher Education), CACEE (Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers), CERIC (Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling), and NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers).
• May train and supervise support staff, student assistants, interns, and/or volunteers.
• Assists in training of new professional staff in the UBC Career Centre.

Benefits

• The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position.
• UBC supports inspired students, faculty and staff on their journey of discovery, and challenges them to realize their greatest potential.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level