Assistant Director, Career and Life Design

Rhode Island College invites applicants for the position of Assistant Director, Career and Life Design. This is full-time, calendar year, continuing position.      
  
The Career Development Center provides a range of services for students and alumni that may be helpful at any point of the career decision-making or job search process. The Career Development Center facilitates programs, initiatives and services that support career readiness, career exploration, internship engagement, student employment and employer relations. The office hosts several targeted job and internship career fairs, schedules on-campus interviews with prospective employers, sponsors career programs, and conducts workshops on topics such as job searches, resume writing, and interviewing. The Career Development Center also provides students with assistance with graduate studies program search and personal statements. The College's student employment program that offers career-related on-campus opportunities is also administered by the Center.

The Assistant Director for Career and Life Design is crucial to the Center and Rhode Island College’s development and increase of student engagement with internships and other experiential learning opportunities. The position will work closely with faculty in academic departments who are charged with internship oversight responsibilities while supporting academic departments that have fewer formal programs. The position will also design and implement expanded experiential career development programs like job shadowing, micro-internships and informational interviews. The Assistant Director of Career and Life Design will also play a vital role in facilitation and management of the student employment program and work with the team to transform the program to be less transactional and more transformative. Tied to another recommendation from the NACE External audit of improving student employment to be more transformation and developmental, this position would be critical in executing the improvement of student employment. The Assistant Director will also support the training and development for the Student Employment process, which is a critical need for the Center.

Required qualifications:

• Master’s degree in higher education/college student personnel or related area.
• A minimum of three to five years of experience providing career counseling services and employer relations (which includes managing an on-line job posting system). Experience with internships, experiential learning, employer relations in career services.  Strong experience successfully working with external and internal stakeholders.

• Knowledge of Rhode Island job market.
• Bilingual in English / Spanish (fluent in speaking and writing).
• Experience working with Handshake or similar career and employment tool.