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Assistant Vice Provost, Career and Professional Development

Employer
Loyola University Chicago
Location
Rogers Park-Lake Shore Campus

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Administrative Jobs
Student Affairs, Career Services
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Job Title:

Assistant Vice Provost, Career and Professional Development

Position Number:

8102503

Job Category:

University Staff

Job Type:

Full-Time

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Campus:

Rogers Park-Lake Shore Campus

Department Name:

CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER

Location Code:

CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER (02045A)

Is this split and/or fully grant funded? :

No

Duties and Responsibilities:

DESCRIPTION/GOALS: Direct and manage the university career services as it assists all student, alumni, faculty, and employer clients in the development of career education, career readiness and management, identification and search, and pursuit of employment opportunities commensurate with formal academic pursuits. Continually expand the client/user base and scope of services to ensure provision of the widest array of services possible to the broadest mix of academic and corporate clients.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•Serves as the primary liaison between the university, its students and alumni, and potential employers on a state, regional, national, and international scale.
•Responsible for fiscal planning and management for career services, including all operations and staffing matters.
•Serves as adviser and interfaces with representatives of industrial, governmental, and educational employers to assist in the most effective use of career services’ efforts.
•In collaboration with the Employer Relations Team, develops new contacts with external organizations for the purpose of expanding employment opportunities for students and alumni.
•Reviews and supervises the on-campus recruitment and interviewing processes along with the Employer relations Team
•Coordinates and supervises staff professional development activities and training, to include travel for professional development workshops, seminars, and conferences.
•Closely coordinates communication with deans, department chairs, and other faculty to ensure that the career services department is meeting the needs and desires of the academic colleges and departments, within the limitations imposed by the size of the staff and financial support provided by the university.
•Constantly monitors, analyzes, and evaluates current scope of services offered through career services and plans, implements, and directs new programs under the supervision of the Executive Vice Provost.
• Serves in a leadership role in various professional organizations including, but not limited to, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and those regional affiliates which provide broad opportunities for job development activities.

- Supervises five (currently Associate) Directors and administrative support staff.
- Leads large portfolio of career professionals across schools and academic programs
-Manages career advising, business career services, and employment relations, employer operations and communications, and pre-health advising
-Oversees day-to-day operations of the Career Services to ensure student-focused and alumni service.
- Provides leadership and articulates the vision and mission for Career Services. Fosters a positive team dynamic among staff in the unit, focused on student and alumni success. This position and the Career Center is poised for expansion, and will be directly involved in the strategic vision of the Office of the Provost.
-Facilitates assessment, collects and disseminates student outcomes.
- Fosters the use of technology as a professional differentiator;
-Builds and expands partnerships with alumni and employers

- Responsible for fiscal planning and oversight of the annual operating budget.
- Develops and implements annual strategic plans, policies, procedures and protocols.
- Represents the Career Services on University committees relevant to employment, academic support services and initiatives.
- Expands post-graduation opportunities for students through partnering with potential employers, service organizations and graduate schools.

- Advises and advocates for the development of university-wide policies, procedures, systems, and tools that support successful
preparation for employment and transition into post-graduation experiences. Participates in all phases from idea generation to implementation, evaluation and result reporting.
- Publishes an annual report with outcomes data on post-graduation placements.
- Performs related duties as required, with a commitment to being an anti-racist institution and an overall engagement with DEI initiatives is required.

Minimum Education and/or Work Experience:

Master’s degree or equivalent professional degree; and at least 15 + years related experience in career advising and coaching, employer engagement, fundraising and grant development, with the last five directing a large-scale career development center/office, to include pre-health advising and coaching. Demonstrated success with career outcomes is a must in this role.

Qualifications:

- Ability to work effectively with students in a holistic manner with an enthusiasm for providing student-centered services in the Ignatian tradition.
- Ability to foster partnerships with employers and campus partners
- Ability to work with University leadership across units negotiating competing demands
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with employers, faculty, staff, students and parents.
- Demonstrated experience and ability to hire, train, evaluate and supervise a professional staff.
- Experience developing and implementing student programming at the post-secondary level.
- A commitment to academic excellence, social justice and service, values-based leadership, global awareness and diversity.
- Ability to embrace, promote and articulate the University’s Jesuit Catholic identity.

Special Requirements
•Resistance Capital – demonstrated ability and comfort in challenging conventional methods that may be problematic
•Linguistic Capital – demonstrated ability to bridge varied, competing goals and viewpoints
•Navigational Capital – demonstrated ability to transform barriers into bridges; help under-represented talent navigate workplace barriers
•Thorough understanding of and commitment to the goals and responsibilities of the centralized career services concept.
•Nationwide professional contacts in both the university and employment sectors.
•Demonstrated public relations/marketing abilities to be used on behalf of the university as a whole and career services specifically.

Certificates/Credentials/Licenses:

Experience using Handshake Software preferred. Involvement with NACE a must.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Yes

Required operation of university owned vehicles:

No

Does this position require direct animal or patient contact? :

No

Physical Demands:

Standing

Working Conditions:

Irregular Hours

Open Date:

03/25/2021

Quick Link for Posting:

https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/15443

Organization

Working at Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is the nation’s largest Jesuit, Catholic University and the only one located in Chicago. Shaped by our city and our Jesuit traditions, Loyola University Chicago offers students an educational environment unmatched for its diversity of thought and experience.

Loyola University Chicago comprises four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to eleven schools and colleges: Arrupe College, Quinlan School of Business, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Stritch School of Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Communication, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, School of Education, School of Law, School of Social Work, and Graduate School. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois.

With three campuses spread throughout the greater Chicago area, students have access to hundreds of cultural institutions as well as thousands of internships and networking opportunities with the city's Fortune 500 companies. Study-abroad programs at our Rome and Beijing Centers provide engagement with the global community and economy.

While rigorous programs of research and study are one hallmark of a Jesuit education, we're not just preparing students for a career, we're preparing them for life. We challenge our students to learn broadly, to think critically, to serve generously, to lead with integrity, to respect diversity. We come from all faiths and ethnic and economic backgrounds, with a common purpose of building a better society.

Recognizing Loyola’s excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications, and named the University a "best value" in its 2008 rankings.

Our faculty take a person-centered approach to education. They’re not just here to teach students what they know, they’re here to teach them to think critically and creatively and to reach for their own discoveries.

More facts about Loyola University Chicago:

  • Total enrollment: 15,902
  • 80+ undergraduate majors and 80+ minors
  • 140+ graduate, professional, and graduate-level certificate programs
  • More than 4,000 faculty and staff members 
  • 14:1 Undergraduate student/faculty ratio 
  • 150,000 alumni; 85,000 in Chicago 
  • One of only eight percent of all American colleges and universities to have a Phi Beta Kappa honor society chapter

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