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CAREER SPECIALIST, CAREER CENTER, STUDENT AFFAIRS

Employer
Duke University
Location
Career Center

Job Details

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Scope of Responsibilities:

The Career Specialist (Career Adviser), under the supervision of a Senior Career Specialist/Assistant Director) in the Career Center will educate and advise domestic and international undergraduate/graduate students and alumni regarding a variety of career and professional development and internship/job search concerns. This position will advise students across all disciplines and is uniquely responsible for developing expertise in specific career community/industry areas. Career Specialist will create/curate content and develop and deliver programs related to a specific career community they will manage. (Available communities: Discovery & Exploration)

Duties: %

Coaching and Advising (35%)

  • Advise/Coach students and alumni in defining their educational and vocational goals and to develop career plans designed to progress towards those goals.
  • Provide guidance to undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni on topics including self-awareness, options knowledge, decision making, job/internship strategy, interview preparation, networking, and application material preparation.

Educational Content & Resource Development (25%)

  • Create, edit, and share content (written, video, etc) and resources that can be used across our platforms that builds meaningful connections and encourages students and campus partners to act and enhances our Career Everywhere philosophy.

Programs & Major Events (20%)

  • Plan, coordinate or participate in programs to enable University students to explore career readiness.

Communications & Outreach (10%)

  • Implement communications and outreach plans for assigned career community and/or programs as needed.

Assessment & Reporting (5%)

  • Assist in the preparation of reports and analyses setting forth progress, adverse trends and appropriate recommendations or conclusions.

Other Duties (5%)

  • Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Additional Job-Specific Skills and Competencies:

  • Experience and a commitment to working with and supporting students representing diverse identities. Duke University has a culture of inclusion, and our students include individuals from a broad range of backgrounds, cultures, identities and experience.
  • Ability to think creatively about the professional development and educational experience of students and pilot creative approaches that serve constituents any time, any place, creating an effective on-demand experience
  • Experience with career services platforms and/or familiarity with campus recruiting software, i.e. Handshake, Big Interview, uConnect, Interstride, etc.individuals from a broad range of backgrounds, cultures, identities and experience.
  • Capacity to balance multiple and varied tasks, meet deadlines, and use well-developed time management and organizational skills.
  • Discretion when accessing and handling confidential information.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and ability to learn new technologies.
  • Some evening and weekend work may be required to oversee student events and activities, along with travel for conferences and relationship development.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Work requires communications, analytical and organizational skills acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program.

Experience

Work requires one year of experience in a placement or other student services function to become familiar with career counseling and placement programs.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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