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Career Exploration Coordinator

Employer
Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City
Location
Maple Woods, MO, MO
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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Community College
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About MCC

Metropolitan Community College is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1915 as the Kansas City Polytechnic Institute. The Junior College of Kansas City, as it was known starting in 1919, was one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs.

Metropolitan Community College comprises five campuses on the Missouri side of the Greater Kansas City area 47 major buildings and about 550 acres in all: MCC-Blue River, located in Independence, Missouri; MCC-Longview located in Lee's Summit, Missouri, MCC-Maple Woods located in the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri; MCC-Online and MCC-Penn Valley, located in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.

MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, several programs have specific accreditations as well.

***MCC does not provide employer-paid sponsorships.

Job Summary

Incumbents assist exploratory students with career advising services that meet students when they enter and assist in developing a personalized career plan.

Essential Functions

  • Create and conduct career exploration presentations and workshops for prospective and current students
  • Target case management strategies that address building first-year exploratory Pathway students’ sense of foundation in career development skills
  • Partner with exploratory academic advisor, faculty, staff, and external agencies to provide comprehensive services and information resources that enable students to take active responsibility for their college and career decisions and planning
  • Coordinates operations and activities of the career services offices. Duties include, but are not limited to, ensuring adequate staffing levels, managing the Career Center budget, developing promotional materials, and updating documents related to policies and procedures
  • Responsible for proactively responding to referrals from other areas regarding students needing career exploration assistance
  • Use appropriate systems and technologies as directed to enter, retrieve, and/or research information and to maintain accurate record keeping and communication
  • Maintain a thorough understanding of MCC programs, policies, procedures, and systems to effectively and accurately guide students
  • Administers assessment instruments and interprets results to provide career advising services to students
  • Collaborate with the Career Services Coordinator and maintain knowledge of changes in the workplace and economic outlook as they impact students’ career choices, preparation, and employment
  • Perform other duties as assigned
    • Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements

    Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree*
  • One (1) year experience in advising, education, or career counseling
    • *Minimum Education Qualification can be substituted with an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

    Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Knowledge of career counseling principles, methods, and practices
  • Knowledge of customer service principles
  • Knowledge of public relations principles and practices
  • Knowledge of human behavior and performance
  • Knowledge of leadership models
  • Knowledge of budget development principles
  • Skilled in interpreting career exploration assessments
  • Skilled in delegating and prioritizing work
  • Skilled in interpreting and applying applicable laws, rules, and regulations
  • Skilled in analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions, and making recommendations in support of goals
  • Skilled in monitoring a budget
  • Skilled in providing career counseling services
  • Skilled in developing and implementing public relations campaigns
  • Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public, and others, sufficient to exchange or convey information

    • Physical Requirements
    Positions in this class typically require grasping, hearing, keyboarding, reaching, repetitive motion, standing, talking, visual acuity, and walking. The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly.Supplemental Information

    EEO Statement:
    Metropolitan Community College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any person based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, birth, ancestry, national origin, or disability. EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled
    Accommodations:
    MCC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, MCC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations in all aspects of employment, including the application process. To request an accommodation and/or a copy of the Americans with Disabilities Act applicant procedures, please contact the Office of Human Resources.

    Organization

    Long before Kansas City looked the way it does today, a group of people believed the region needed a place where anyone could get an education that led somewhere. That belief became Kansas City Polytechnic Institute in 1915, and a few years later, the Junior College of Kansas City, one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Over a century later, that same idea still drives the institution known today as Metropolitan Community College.

    MCC is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, and that history isn't just a footnote. It's the foundation for a mission that hasn't changed: open doors, build skills, and help people move forward, whether that means a first degree, a career change, or a new trade learned close to home. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs across five campuses on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area: Blue River, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, and MCC-Online, spanning 47 buildings and roughly 550 acres.

    But campuses and buildings only tell part of the story. What makes MCC matter is the people inside them, faculty who show up for students navigating school alongside jobs and families, staff who help someone find their footing, and colleagues who understand that this work changes the trajectory of a life. MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and several of its programs carry additional specialized accreditation, a reflection of a place that takes its responsibility to students seriously without losing sight of why the work exists in the first place.

    For more than a hundred years, MCC has been part of how Kansas City grows and moves forward. The next chapter is being written now, by the people who choose to build their careers here. There's a place in that story for you.

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    8166041234
    Location
    3200 Broadway Blvd
     Kansas City
    MO
    64111
    United States
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