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Career Advisor - Career Development Office (Part-Time)

Employer
Bard College
Location
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

Job Details

Bard CollegeCareer Advisor - Career Development Office (Part-Time)Employer Website: http://apply.interfolio.com/102033
The Career Advisor provides job search support and career advising to undergraduate students in a fast-paced office that is student-centered and job recruiting and career events driven. This is a part-time position (up to 24 hours per week) reporting to the Director of the Career Development Office (CDO).

Bard College has transformed its student body in terms of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and nationality. Our ideal candidate will excel at supporting a community that is broadly diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and religion. And, will have demonstrated success providing career development services to a diverse group of students.

This position requires an understanding of career advising and the functions of a college career office, as well as the ability to assist students in translating a liberal arts education into career-readiness skills and competencies. Knowledge of careers in these job markets is a plus: communications, media, international affairs, human rights, NGOs, foreign service; environmental studies, urban planning, and architecture.

Meeting one on one with students, assisting with annual recruiting consortiums, and giving workshops on relevant career topics will be central to the role. The Career Advisor will work closely with the entire CDO staff to help support the many recruiting events, interviews, and panel discussions that focus on job and internship opportunities. 75% of the role involves individual career advising and post-graduate career preparation, 15% is office administration and 10% focuses on programming and development.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Career advising in one-on-one student meetings.
  • Developing connections with diverse groups of students across campus.
  • Designing and delivering curricular materials to orient and engage students and internship partners through digital and traditional means.
  • Developing systems to engage and position students for success in their internships and experiential learning opportunities.
  • Collaborating to develop/utilize assessment tools to analyze and monitor student career development progress and improve experiences.
  • Analyzing job market trends to determine solutions in response to market conditions.
  • Researching and connecting with prospective employers.
  • End of year reporting support and data collection.
  • Creating effective workshops on relevant career topics.
  • Providing administrative support for the Career Development Office.
  • Performing occasional weekend and evening work.
  • Other job duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
  • B.A. required and a master’s degree in counseling, higher education, social work or related field is preferred.
  • Experience advising college-age students.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with all constituencies, and deliver effective public presentations.
  • Demonstrated success working with and for diverse students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae.
  • Must be highly organized with excellent project management skills.
  • Experience utilizing assessment tools.
  • Strong written communication skills with the ability to create career-related handouts, presentations and social media posts.
  • Ability to deliver creative programming with minimal staff.
  • Strong knowledge of CSMs required, and experience with Handshake preferred
To Apply
To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume, diversity statement, and the contact information for three references to Interfolio by following this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/102033

Please note that the College requires all employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted) against Covid-19.

About Bard College
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1000 park-like acres in the beautiful Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; nine early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 161-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Bard College is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental, or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information.

Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.

AA/EOE

Organization

Undergraduate Degrees

Bard offers courses of study in four divisions—Arts; Languages and Literature; Science, Mathematics, and Computing; and Social Studies—and in interdivisional programs and concentrations. Students may also earn a five-year B.S./B.A. degree in economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree—a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the following undergraduate degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College; and through the Bard Prison Initiative at six correctional institutions in New York State.

Graduate Degrees

More than 200 students are seeking graduate degrees: M.A. in curatorial studies, M.Music in vocal arts, conducting, and curatorial, critical, and performance studies, and M.S. in environmental policy, climate science and policy, and economic theory and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple campuses; M.B.A. in Sustainability in New York City; and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan. M.Music degrees are also offered at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Early Colleges

Bard's early colleges educate the next generation of thought leaders, preparing them to be lifetime learners. Bard High School Early Colleges in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio; Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; and Bard Early College New Orleans and Bard Early College at the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy all serve the needs of highly motivated younger students.

International Degrees

Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (Smolny College); American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University; as well as dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in the West Bank.

Cultural Life

Campus life in Annandale is vibrant, with world-class performing arts venues; continuous and varied student activities; and numerous cultural and recreational opportunities in the surrounding historic Hudson River Valley and in New York City. Students choose from more than a hundred active clubs on campus, and new clubs begin every semester. The Bard College athletic teams are the Raptors. The College’s colors are red and white. The critically acclaimed Bard Music Festival is presented on campus each summer, exploring the life and work of a single composer through chamber music, choral and orchestral performances, symposia, panel discussions, and preconcert talks. Since 2003 the festival has been part of Bard SummerScape, which annually presents operas, films, and theatrical productions that complement the festival’s theme.

Outstanding Faculty

Bard's undergraduate faculty-to-student ratio is 1:10 and courses are taught by full faculty members. Among the many distinguished faculty at Bard College are five MacArthur Fellows—poets John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach, novelist and memoirist Norman Manea, painter and multimedia artist Judy Pfaff, and journalist Mark Danner. Other notable faculty members include soprano Dawn Upshaw, journalist Ian Buruma, composers Joan Tower and George Tsontakis, poet Robert Kelly, and writers Luc Sante and Francine Prose. Over the years, four recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature have taught at Bard—Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, José Saramago, and Orhan Pamuk. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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