Associate Director, Student Career Skills LW7646

Career Opportunity

Stetson Law’s Office of Career and Professional Development is well-known for offering individualized and tailored solutions for students and alumni, high-end employer services and opportunities, innovative and collaborative campus and community partnerships, and a history of remarkable student employment outcomes that emerge from those strategies.

Join this high-performing team of professionals committed to student success and career achievements. We are campus leaders who drive ambitious initiatives, create innovative tools and resources to help students master career fundamentals and more, and imagine and build new events and forums to meet the moment and take advantage of opportunity. We have an opening for a creative, empathetic, motivated, and engaging legal professional to join our team as Associate Director—Student Career Skills.

The Associate Director-Student Career Skills will add value and dimension by:

• Aggregating, organizing, and delivering foundational career tools and resources, and helping students master the fundamentals early.
• Easing individual student career anxieties, building confidence, and improving skills performance.
• Providing resume and cover letter guidance, LinkedIn profile building, delivering networking training, and giving useful feedback and coaching.
• Providing customized attention to individual learning styles and career goals, stablishing a supportive and caring relationship.
• Identifying needs for new tools and resources to meet contemporary challenges and opportunities in all student segments and populations, based on trends, research, student requests, and collaboration with colleagues and supervisor.
• Building, maintaining, and expanding technological platforms for the delivery of student and alumni empowerment opportunities.

Required Knowledge. Skills, and Abilities:

• Broad understanding of the legal profession and a wide variety of practice disciplines and settings normally gained through a program of legal education, law school, or practice in a law office.
• Broad and deep understanding of career development principles and tools, resources and materials sufficient to advise students and monitor progress. Understanding of and sensitivity to human behavior and risks associated with stress and anxiety.
• Judgement skills sufficient to manage normal campus risks, oversee student events and classrooms, advise students on jobs, workplaces, behavior, social occasions, interactions with supervisors, and interviewers, and the like.
• Social skills sufficient to gain credibility and authority with campus constituencies (students, faculty, staff) and external constituencies (employers, alumni, and community members). Ability to influence members of those constituencies.
• Cultural competencies sufficient to work with all students and to understand differences, to facilitate a culture of belonging and inclusion, and incorporate those principles into tools and skills development activities and curricula.

Required Qualifications:

• J.D. is strongly preferred. If the candidate does not possess a J.D. they must possess an advanced degree in an Education discipline, Public Administration, Social Services, Psychology, Counseling, or Business Administration.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in a professional, related student-facing position requiring credibility and authority.

Hybrid work environment, tuition benefits, excellent health and welfare benefits including TIAA 403b, liberal holiday schedule, friendly, supportive and upbeat work community and culture, and best of all: amazing students.