Director, Career Services

Key Responsibilities

Provide vision, strategy, and leadership for Career Services

• Create a climate and culture of teamwork, trust, and commitment that focuses on the strengths of the staff and maximizes their opportunities to make meaningful contributions.
• Directly supervise shared services team and support optimal department coordination.
• Facilitate department decision-making regarding resources, tools, and systems; establish area policies and procedures to enable the work of serving students.

Promote student success in career engagement with university and college leaders, faculty, staff, and external partners.

• Consult/collaborate with college career directors and campus community how to best support student success in career and life planning and post-graduation outcome attainment across all student demographic groups.
• Report periodically to college career directors regarding the career and life post-graduation outcomes of their student populations and engagement in career development activities.

Empower students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to fulfill their career and life goals

• Provide resources, trainings, and teach courses relevant to career progression, student development, or student success.
• Coordinate trainings to campus departments, present in classes, seminars, and workshops.

Collaborate and provide leadership to campus colleagues and industry professionals by being a thought leader and innovator of careers at BYU (10%)

• Maintain a working knowledge of careers at BYU
• Contribute to the body of knowledge of trends, best practices, and research in higher education.
• Participate in professional development, benchmarking activities, and involvement with national, regional, and state professional organizations (conference attendance or giving presentations).

Qualification & Requirements

Education/Experience

• Minimum education/experience required
  • Master’s degree in advising, human resources, MBA, student development or related fiel
• Preferred
  • Experience in educational administration and 5+ years’ experience in a university career center

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge, Licenses, and Certifications

• Excellent leadership skills to effectively lead and provide strategic vision and direction to university advisors, career directors, career managers, and support personnel
• Superior ability to communicate with university administrators, faculty, and students
• Advising certificate or equivalent
• Knowledge of student academic and career development
• Knowledge of developmental advising and career counseling
• Knowledge of colleges, departments, and university structure

Benefits

In addition to our competitive pay structure, this position comes with fantastic benefits , including:

• 401k. BYU automatically contributes 8% at no cost to you. Additionally, if you contribute 5%, BYU adds an additional 4% (Rehires may qualify for different retirement plans)
• Excellent work-life balance: 13 paid holidays + 22 days paid vacation + 12 sick days, accrued annually
• Employee assistance program, available to the employee and all members of their household
• Tuition benefits for employees and eligible family members
• Access to athletic facilities
• Excellent medical/dental benefits
• Short/long-term disability benefits
• Paid parental and maternity leave
• Wellness Program
• Free on-campus parking
• Free UTA passes for employees, spouses, and qualified dependents
• Discounts at the BYU Store and for many events at BYU