Job Details

Reporting to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, the Director of the Career Center provides leadership and vision for the department in an effort to maintain and expand UNC Pembroke's comprehensive career services for students and alumni. The Director of the Career Center provides strategic direction for all career development programs and services, including employer relations, career counseling, job search assistance, graduate school counseling, and internship development. The Director leads efforts to increase the visibility, support, and sponsorship of career development activities, enhance existing services, and benchmark with similar institutions to identify best practices.

In order to support the mission of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, career development programs and services must be provided to afford students the opportunity to explore themselves and the world-of-work within the context of their total post-secondary educational experience. Quality career/life planning programs, events and courses are an integral part of the student's total education at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

The mission of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Career Center is to provide a comprehensive program of career development services and activities for all students and alumni. The Career Center offers services to assist students in clarifying their career choices, defining their job search strategies, and pursuing internship/co-op, employment, and/or graduate school opportunities.

The functional areas this position encompasses include teaching career development topics, individual and group career consulting, and the administration and interpretation of a variety of career-related inventories assessing the interests, work values, skills, and abilities of individuals toward assisting them with developing career and life goals. This position reports directly to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.

Primary responsibilities of the position and the clients served are:

To serve as administrative head of the Career Center by overseeing its budget and personnel, developing its career-related programs, policies, and procedures, and implementing all services rendered.
To research the literature about modern career planning/awareness needs. Develop, implement, and assess programs to teach and encourage self-analysis and realistic planning for today's world-of-work.
To serve as a major resource person for University students, alumni, faculty, student support staff, and members of the local community.
To provide instructional leadership to the University's effort to prepare students for diverse professions and serve the local community.
To oversee teaching of CAR 1010: Introduction to Career Development.
To teach a wide range of career planning topics in formal classes, group and individual counseling sessions, seminars/workshops, clubs/organizations, and local agencies.
To provide individual and group career consulting to UNCP students (undergraduate and graduate) and alumni.
To ensure availability, provide instruction about, and interpret a variety of career-related inventories related to interests, skills, work values, and abilities.
To participate in and/or present at various campus events in order to promote career planning awareness among students, alumni, faculty, staff, and guests visiting the University.
To design Career Center marketing strategies that will encourage students, alumni, faculty, and staff to use services.

Minimum Training and Experience Requirements: Knowledge of career development theory, application, and current trends. Five to seven years experience in career and employer services required. Earned doctorate in Counseling, Student Affairs, or a closely related field preferred. Must have excellent supervisory, budgeting, communication, writing, planning, problem solving, technology, and organizational skills. Ability to seek innovative solutions to problems is expected. Must be student-oriented and have a commitment to working in a team-based, collaborative environment along with the ability to work with a culturally diverse student population.

Management Preference: Earned doctorate in Counseling, Student Affairs or a closely related field preferred; master's required. Five to seven years' experience in career and employer services required. Prior supervisory experience is required. Knowledge of career development theory, application, and current trends.

Special Instructions to Applicants: This position is subject to the successful completion of an employment background check. An employment background check includes a criminal background check, employment verification, reference checks, license verification (if applicable) and credit history check (if applicable).

If hired, the candidate will be required to submit proof of eligibility to work in the United States. New employees are paid only by direct deposit to the financial institution of their choice. Candidates claiming Veterans Preference must attach a copy of their DD-214 as a part of the online application process.

Per the requirements of the Clery Act of 1998, the Campus Security Report can be found at:
http://www.uncp.edu/about-uncp/administration/departments/title-ix-clery-compliance/annual-security-reports

UNC Pembroke is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The University prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their age, race, color, genetic information, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

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