Senior Specialist, Learning and Career Counseling

UTMB•Galveston, TX

About The Position

The Senior Specialist, Learning and Career Counseling provides expertise in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs for medical and health profession students in collaboration with Academic Enterprise faculty. The role assesses student needs and supports student success within the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions, School of Medicine, or School of Health Professions. The specialist provides individual and group learning-skills support, develops and delivers workshops, assesses learning issues and assists with remediation, and offers career guidance. The position also supports exam preparation, peer mentoring and tutoring, residency and student application processes, and related orientation activities. It maintains database systems used to track students and issues relevant to program success, adheres to internal controls and reporting structures, and performs related duties as required.

Requirements

Doctoral degree in Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology, or a related field, plus two years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting; alternatively, a master's degree in one of these fields or a related field, plus five years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting.
Expertise in student academic performance assessment.
Effective presentation skills for group and individual discussion.
Ability to work effectively with a variety of professionals.
Ability to plan, organize, set goals, and accomplish them.
Ability to analyze and evaluate data and make appropriate recommendations.

Nice To Haves

Experience in an academic health setting.
Career counseling in medicine, including the AAMC Careers in Medicine program, or career counseling in another healthcare discipline.
Experience with the ERAS and NRMP process for medical school.
Previous experience interacting with medical and/or graduate students.
Experience using diagnostic educational and learning tools.
Experience with assessments related to achievement, intellectual functioning, attention, test anxiety, DSM-V criteria, learning styles, and career development, including WAIS, Woodcock-Johnson, Nelson-Denny, Myers Briggs, and LASSI.

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on learning-skills training, including test-taking, study, reading, and critical-thinking skills, based on evaluation and assessment.
Develop, facilitate, and deliver proactive workshops addressing personal, academic, and clinical experience issues commonly experienced by students.
Maintain database systems for tracking students and issues pertinent to program success.
Assist with planning and administration of USMLE Step I, Step II, or other medical preparatory and peer mentoring programs, course preparation, study workshops, residency preparation, and orientation activities.
Assess students for learning issues and assist with remediation of identified issues.
Provide career guidance, including guidance informed by career development and career theory as applied to medical students and physicians.
Assist with residency or student application issues, CV/resume and personal-statement development, and application review before submission, as applicable to the program.
Assist with the peer tutoring program as needed.
Assist in developing and facilitating strategies to prepare students for board and licensure examinations.
Adhere to internal controls and reporting structure.
Perform related duties as required.