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Position: Veterans Career Services Specialist (part-time)
Primary Locations: St. Joseph’s University New York, Long Island Campus & Great River Office
Reports to: Project Coordinator, US Dept. of Education Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success (CEVSS) Grant
The Veterans Career Services Specialist will serve as the university’s primary point person for career services and professional development for the Brooklyn and Long Island Campuses’ military-affiliated (MA) students and will report to the 3-year Grant’s Project Coordinator. This position will provide all career services functions, including individual military and veteran-centric career counseling, coaching, and utilization of external MA career development and employment resources. The planning, creating and execution of MA-specific career development programs is essential and will include developing an awareness of the services provided and heightened utilization of these services by the university’s military-affiliated cohort.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities Include:
- Host career/post-graduate guidance appointments for MA students.
- Connect MA students with the Handshake career platform and assist with job searches
- Develop and maintain a Veteran-specific Job Bank
- Administer the Internship Stipend program for veterans partaking in an unpaid internship.
- Provide career guidance honing resumes, mock interviews, and other related skills; translating military service experience to civilian resume
- Assist Office of Alumni Engagement in developing an Alumni Veteran Mentoring network.
- Support usage of SJConnect cultivating an online veteran student-alumni mentorship group
- Serve as a university liaison/ambassador on campus and in the military/veteran community
- Assist in gathering feedback and data on grant program usage and survey assessments.
- Meet with the Grant Project Coordinator bi-weekly and participate in monthly Vet Team meetings
Required Experience/ Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree
- Experience working in the Career Development/Services field
Preferred Experience/ Qualifications:
- Higher Ed Career Services experience and/or formal credentials a plus
- 1 year of higher ed experience advising military-affiliated students
- Professional and/or personal experience in military transitions (service to civilian; service to student)
- Knowledge of/familiarity with NY-area military and veteran community resources
Salary: $27,500 annually, $29 p/hr
Work Hours/Schedule: 18 hours per week
Please submit a Cover Letter and Resume via email to the attention of:
Alyia Perez, Project Coordinator, CEVSS Grant, Edgrant@sjny.edu
View Job Description: https://www.sjny.edu/employment
DoE CEVSS Grant Project Director
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Part Time
$54k-68k (estimate)
06/04/2024
06/29/2024