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Director, Career Center

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University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Location
Wilmington, NC

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Position Title Director, Career Center External Link to Posting http://jobs.uncw.edu/postings/13135 Department Career Center - 40020 Vacancy Number E306 Position Number 198 Location of Workplace Main UNCW Campus Brief Summary of Work for this Position

The Director of Career Center oversees the operations of the UNCW Career Center and provides leadership, vision and direction to attain the university’s strategic goals through Career Center student support programs focusing on student success with career exploration, employment searches and graduate school applications. This position plays a central role in helping produce the successful career outcomes higher education promises and society now increasingly demands. Key responsibilities include:
•Implements innovative approaches to support students’ career development, job and graduate school searches with the specific goal of improving students’ career readiness and career success.
•Establishes and maintains productive relationships with colleagues both on and off campus, including faculty, staff, administrators, employers, alumni, and other relevant groups to help infuse career readiness into the campus and professional communities.
•Applies state-of-the-art technology to enhance and facilitate student’s campus career experience and interactions to assist students in navigating the world outside the university. Utilizes technology to support students at all stages of their career development to explore, experience, engage and embark.
•Evaluates available technologies, selects and secures funding for most relevant platforms, and assesses their impact on students’ career development.
•Develops and promotes departmental print and electronic marketing and publicity campaigns to inform and educate students, alumni and employers on available programs and services.
•Presents to campus, state, regional, and national groups on career services, student success and applied learning initiatives, career research and the use of state-of-the-art technology in career services.
•Creates and monitors departmental service, program, staffing, and operational budgets to ensure resources are targeted to achieve student’s career readiness and success.
•Oversees service delivery process and documentation, performs gap analysis and compiles, publishes, and submits service and program reports in collaboration with the Career Center team. Report evaluations and recommendations are used to refine programs and services, create new initiatives and eliminate outmoded programs.
•Provides leadership, direction, and vision for direct reports (i.e., Associate Directors, Office Manager), and assumes general responsibility for all departmental full-time staff, graduate assistants and student staff.
•Develops, implements and carries out departmental policies and procedures, as well as, adheres to state and federal employment laws to reduce potential compliance risk.
•Serves as key member on Student Affairs Senior Management Team
•This position report to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.

Minimum Requirements

A master’s degree in Student Personnel, Counseling, Higher Education, Business Administration, or related area is required, as well as five years of progressively responsible experience in university career services, including an administrative leadership role; experience in supervision, budgeting, organizational planning, evaluation, and the use of current information technologies in career and employment counseling and development. In addition, an in-depth knowledge of career development with college students, and program planning skills, including the development, budgeting, staffing, marketing, implementation and evaluation of career programs and services. Staff planning and supervision of professional, support and student staff members. Ability to apply state-of-the-art technology to daily programs and services. Strong counseling, communication, and public relations skills.

Preferred Qualifications

A doctoral degree in Student Personnel, Counseling, Higher Education, Business Administration, or related area is preferred, with ten years of progressively responsible experience in university career services, including an administrative leadership role; experience in supervision, budgeting, organizational planning, evaluation, and the use of current information technologies in career counseling and development. Additional experience in the business community, and specific experience in technology and assessment planning. Specialized skills in evaluating assessment data to inform program planning throughout Career Center’s functional areas.

Primary purpose of the division, department, and/or grant

The UNCW Career Center is a comprehensive career development and resource center dedicated to empowering students and alumni as active participants in their own career development. Compelling programs and services help students as they explore their academic and career options, gain experience and evaluate their options, and engage with the worlds of work and graduate education.

College/School Information University Information

The University of North Carolina Wilmington, the state’s coastal university, is dedicated to learning through the integration of teaching and mentoring with research and service. Guided by our Strategic Plan, the university is committed to nurturing a campus culture that reflects its values of diversity and globalization, ethics and integrity, and excellence and innovation. A public institution with nearly 17,000 students, the university is focused on supporting and enhancing the student-centered learning experience that has been a hallmark since its founding in 1947. UNCW offers an array of programs at the baccalaureate and master’s levels, and doctoral programs in marine biology, educational leadership, psychology and nursing practice. UNCW is one of the 17 institutions that make up the UNC System.

EEO Statement

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington is committed to and will provide equality of educational and employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, sex (such as gender, gender identity, marital status, childbirth, and pregnancy), age, color, national origin (including ethnicity), religion, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran status, military service member status, genetic information, or relationship to other university constituents – except where sex, age, or ability represent bona fide educational or occupational qualifications or where marital status is a statutorily established eligibility criterion for State funded employee benefit programs.

Applicant Instructions Months Per Year 12 Months Position Type Permanent Anticipated Ending Date if Time-Limited Positions Job Posting Date 12/21/2018 Priority Consideration Date 01/31/2019 Priority Consideration Information

Priority consideration will be given to applications received by the Priority Date; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Address application documents to Ms. Patricia Leonard, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Applicant Documents Required Documents
  1. Resume
  2. Cover Letter
  3. List of 3 Professional References
Optional Documents
    Posting Specific Questions

    Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

    1. * Do you hold a master's degree in Student Personnel, Counseling, Higher Education, Business Administration, or required field?
      • Yes
      • No
    2. * Do you have at least five years of progressively responsible experience in university career services, including an administrative leadership role?
      • Yes
      • No
    3. * Do you hold a doctoral degree in Student Personnel, Counseling, Higher Education, Business Administration, or related area?
      • Yes
      • No
    4. * How did you learn of this opportunity with UNC Wilmington?
      • UNCW LinkedIn Page
      • UNCW Facebook Page
      • UNCW Twitter Account
      • UNCW Website
      • Indeed.com
      • InsideHigherEd.com
      • Carolina Job Finder / Employment Guide
      • Direct Contact from UNCW HR Representative / Recruiter
      • UNCW Employee Referral
      • Craigslist
      • Other Social Media Tools
      • Chronicle of Higher Education
      • Other

    Organization

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    Our Mission 

    The University of North Carolina Wilmington is dedicated to the integration of teaching, mentoring, research and service. Widely acknowledged for its superb faculty and staff and consistently recognized at a national level for scholarly excellence and affordability, UNCW offers a powerful academic experience that stimulates creative inquiry and critical thinking. 

    UNCW, a public institution with nearly 16,000 students, offers an array of high-quality programs at the baccalaureate and graduate levels as well as doctoral programs in educational leadership, marine biology, nursing practice and psychology. UNCW also offers a number of distance learning options, including clinical research, an accelerated R.N.-to-B.S.N. program and an Executive MBA program, taught exclusively online and specifically structured for working professionals. The university operates extension sites in several regional counties.

    UNCW is recognized nationally as a military-friendly university and works closely with Coastal Carolina Community College, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River to offer programs designed for military personnel and their families. UNCW is committed to providing resources to military-affiliated students transitioning into the university. The Office of Military Affairs coordinates a comprehensive program of support services for military-affiliated students and advocates for student veterans, active-duty personnel and dependents.

    The university takes a leadership role in the long-term growth of the region. UNCW actively supports economic development through advanced biotech research at its CREST Research Park and the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which works to identify and nurture high-growth, low-impact companies in southeastern North Carolina.

    Learn more about UNCW at www.uncw.edu.

    Student Profile

    Total enrollment 15,740
    *2016 fall semester reporting as of October  2016

    Undergraduate 13,914       

    Graduate 1,826

    UNCW is dedicated to offering a community rich in diversity and inclusion, global perspectives and enriching the quality of life through scholarly community engagement. The university has formed numerous partnerships that provide students with internships, volunteer opportunities and research experiences.

    As a long-time member of the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll and recipient of the Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, UNCW is deeply committed to civic engagement. The university offers service-learning courses and philanthropic opportunities to faculty, staff and students.

    Faculty Profile

    UNCW employs 1,041 faculty (2016 fall semester reporting as of October 2016) in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Health and Human Services, the Cameron School of Business, the Center for Marine Science, the Graduate School, Randall Library and the Watson College of Education. A majority of faculty hold doctoral or other terminal degrees. 

    Learn more at www.uncw.edu/oira/data.html.

     

    UNCW Earns Top Rankings

    The Princeton Review
    The University of North Carolina Wilmington is a featured school on The Princeton Review’s list of “Best Southeastern Colleges 2017.”

    U.S. News & World Report
    UNCW has consistently had a prominent presence on the U.S. News list. The university is ranked 6th among public universities and 16th overall in the publication’s list of “Best Regional Universities in the South for 2017.”

    Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
    UNCW has been named a “Best College Value for 2017” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, ranking in the top 100 public universities.

    Fiske Guide to Colleges
    UNCW was selected for inclusion in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2017, which highlights the nation’s “best and most interesting” colleges and universities.

    Military Times
    UNCW ranks 58th on a national list of “Best for Vets: Colleges 2017” by Military Times, an independent publication for members of the U.S. armed forces and their families. Among North Carolina colleges and universities, UNCW placed 3rd amid veteran-friendly colleges and universities.

    More information is available at www.uncw.edu/rankings.

    Diversity and Inclusion

    In the pursuit of excellence, the University of North Carolina Wilmington actively fosters, encourages and promotes inclusiveness, mutual respect, acceptance and open-mindedness among students, faculty, staff and the broader community. Diversity is an educational benefit that enhances the academic experience and fosters a free exchange of ideas from multiple perspectives.

    UNCW has been recognized for impressive gains in graduation rates nationally among four-year public universities from The Education Trust, having significantly improved six-year graduation rates among underrepresented minorities and reduced the gap between white and minority students over the past decade. That progress occurred even as average graduation rates improved for all students. 

    More information on our university-wide diversity efforts and support can be found at www.uncw.edu/diversity.

     

    Employment

    UNCW is committed to and will provide equality of educational and employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, gender, gender identity, sex (such as marital status or pregnancy), age, color, national origin (including ethnicity), religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status or relationship to other university constituents, except where sex, age or ability represent bona fide educational or occupational qualifications or where marital status is a statutorily established eligibility criterion for state-funded employee benefit programs.

    For more information, visit www.uncw.edu/hr.

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