What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of the Undergraduate Engineering Co-Op Program position at New Jersey Institute of Technology?
Title :
Director of the Undergraduate Engineering Co-Op Program
Department :
Career Development Services
Reports To :
Executive Director, Career Development Services
Position Type : Staff
Position Summary :
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is seeking a Director of the Undergraduate Engineering Co-Op Program. Under the supervision of the Career Development Services (CDS) Executive Director and working closely and directly with the Dean of the Newark College of Engineering (NCE), the Director will develop, manage, and oversee the formal, undergraduate engineering Co-op Program. The Director manages the strategic, programmatic and operational functions related to the formal undergraduate engineering Co-op Program at NJIT. This effort includes using and leveraging existing campus-wide initiatives and industrial connections, developing new opportunities to forge strategic partnerships with employer partners, and coordinating co-op opportunities with the academic units of the Newark College of Engineering (NCE). The Director is providing vision, leadership, creativity, and accountability for increasing student participation in the formal undergraduate engineering Co-op program and ensuring a high impact on student professional development and career advancement through these experiences. The Director coordinates closely with other Career Development Services staff to ensure streamlined career advising to co-op students and cohesive relationships with employers across multiple programs or hiring objectives. The Director develops qualitative and quantitative milestones and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the Engineering Co-op program, and reports periodically on progress toward meeting them.
Essential Functions :
- Provide leadership, expertise, and oversight for the formal undergraduate co-op program for all engineering disciplines in NCE.
- Work closely with academic advisors, faculty, and employers to ensure the Program meets the educational objectives of the academic units while providing high impact experiential learning opportunities for students.
- Leverage the resources of existing CDS specialized work teams in the delivery of professionally managed career advisement, employer development, experiential education, and career related on-campus events.
- Work with the Executive Director and other employer relations team members to develop strategic plans focusing on growing full-time six-month NCE undergraduate co-op work experience opportunities across all NCE majors.
- Work with the employer relations team to determine strategy, messaging, target audiences, communications and tracking methods.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with prospective co-op employers
- Work in collaboration with NCE academic units and the CDS student success team to increase NCE undergraduate student co-op participation.
- Develop and maintain relationships with NCE departments as these pertain to the undergraduate co-op program.
- Communicate and meet regularly with NCE representatives to review progress on shared tasks and initiatives as they relate to increasing co-op student and employer participation.
- Collaborate with NCE departments to coordinate the promotion of the co-op program and opportunities to students.
- Collaborate with NCE to leverage existing employer relationships to increase co-op postings.
Additional Functions :
Prerequisite Qualifications :
Preferred Qualifications :
Experience with Handshake, Symplicity or other career services management platforms.
Bargaining Unit : Non-Aligned
Range / Band : FLSA :
Exempt
Full-Time
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