Career Services Coordinator

Lesley University • Cambridge, MA

50d • $58,656 - $65,774

About The Position

Lesley University is seeking a Career Services Coordinator to support our Threshold Program. Reporting to the Executive Director of the Threshold Program, the Coordinator will play a key role in designing and facilitating skill-building workshops that align with students’ evolving needs and progress toward employment readiness. In this position, the Coordinator will deliver skill-building workshops about employment, create detailed internship plans tailored by industry, place students at internship sites, visit internship sites, and oversee student’s development through collaboration with site supervisors. This role also involves presenting the Threshold internship program to partner organizations, maintaining strong external relationships, meeting regularly with program administrators, attending weekly staff meetings and program-wide events, and providing one-on-one advising to assigned students each semester to support their internship and employment goals. This position is ideal for a student-focused professional with a passion for career development and inclusive education.

Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.

At our core, we are a caring and compassionate community bound together by our passion for improving the lives of others through education, mental health, and the arts. At Lesley, we believe actively advancing our own and all other’s potential leads to a just and humane world. Lesley is the only university in the country focused on advancing human potential through the life-time cultivation of professionals in education, mental health and the arts. We share an eagerness to build just and humane communities in a stressful and rapidly changing world.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in vocational rehabilitation, special education, business administration, or a related field (required)
• 2+ years of experience working in vocational rehabilitation, integrated employment, case management, or special education
• Demonstrated ability to understand individual students’ skills and adapt workshops appropriately
• Experience working with adults with special needs
• Travel to local employment sites regularly
• Ability to work occasional evening and weekend hours if needed
• Demonstrated success using digital technology and the internet to achieve program goals

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Designing and facilitating skill-building workshops that align with students’ evolving needs and progress toward employment readiness
• Delivering skill-building workshops about employment
• Creating detailed internship plans tailored by industry
• Placing students at internship sites
• Visiting internship sites
• Overseeing student’s development through collaboration with site supervisors
• Presenting the Threshold internship program to partner organizations
• Maintaining strong external relationships
• Meeting regularly with program administrators
• Attending weekly staff meetings and program-wide events
• Providing one-on-one advising to assigned students each semester to support their internship and employment goals

Benefits

• We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance.
• In addition, we offer significant paid time off, a generous retirement plan, and tuition programs that enable employees and their dependents to expand their knowledge and skills.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees