Senior Specialist, Learning and Career Counseling

University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) • Galveston, TX

8h

About The Position

The Senior Specialist, Learning and Career Counseling provides expertise in planning, implementing, and evaluating medical or health professions programs and supports students in collaboration with Academic Enterprise faculty to assess student needs. The position is within the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions in the School of Medicine or School of Health Professions.

The specialist provides learning-skills training, assesses and supports students experiencing learning issues, develops workshops on personal, academic, and clinical topics, and offers career and application guidance. The role also supports exam preparation, peer tutoring and mentoring, residency preparation, and orientation activities. The position 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 and two years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting; alternatively, a master's degree in one of these fields and 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, and accomplish goals.
• 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 in another healthcare discipline.
• Experience with the ERAS and NRMP processes for medical school.
• Previous experience interacting with medical and/or graduate students.
• Experience using diagnostic educational and learning tools and 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, critical-thinking and other skills identified through 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 review prior to 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 exams.
• Adhere to internal controls and reporting structure.
• Perform related duties as required.

What This Job Offers

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