New Opportunities with Career Exploration and Success
William (Wil) Jones Jr.
Experienced, 2019 Big 10 Career Professional of the Year, 2012 NACE Rising Star, and Fun, Yet Effective, Guy at Work.
I am pleased to announce that we were given permission to fill some positions within the Office of Career Exploration and Success (CES) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. We seek four experienced and energetic professionals to join our team as:
Full position descriptions are below. Our staff of 39 full-time professionals and seven graduate coordinators are committed to assisting nearly 50,000 students with making connections between their academic experience and career pursuits.
Program Director, Career Interest Communities:
Reporting to the associate director of Career Interest Communities, the program director is an integral part of developing and implementing the career community ecosystem. The role includes overseeing the career interest communities, managing campus partner advisory boards, connecting students with exploration and networking opportunities through alumni mentorship and engagement, and providing tailored programming and advising services. The program director will oversee the Education, Human Services, and Non-Profit Career Community, the Law; Public Health, Policy, and Safety Career Community, and more (full description).
Assistant Director, Rutgers Summer Service Internship Program:
Reporting to the director for Career Development and Experiential Education in Career Exploration and Success with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Eagleton Institute of Politics director of Alumni Relations and Undergraduate Associates Program, the program director will oversee experiential education programming connected with the university-wide Rutgers Summer Service (RSS) Internship Program. RSS will annually place up to 150 Rutgers sophomore and junior students in paid public service internships—and hopefully more in years to come. This program will allow university students, including those who otherwise could not afford to pursue service opportunities, the means to do so while broadening their perspectives on societal challenges and enhancing civic engagement. Selected students shall participate in a summer internship experience at a non-profit or government public service organization and participate in a concurrent virtual course. The incumbent will marshal resources to ensure a high-quality, high-impact experience for participating students and work with a steering committee to ensure the program meets intended goals (full description).
Associate Director, Operations: UHR Application Deadline Passed
Reporting to the Director of Career Operations and Strategic Initiatives, the Associate Director will lead a team consisting of the Assistant Director for Outcomes & Assessment, Web Developer, and Senior Assistant Director for Administration. The incumbent will have direct oversite of front office operations in two locations, expand online career resources, work with staff to develop best practices in strategic implementation of projects, and be a vital member of the Career Exploration and Success Management Team. Through supervisory lines, the incumbent will oversee technology resources, assessment initiatives, department procurement, and business operations (full description).
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Assistant Director, Career Student Communities: UHR Application Deadline Passed
Reporting to the associate director of Career Interest Communities, the program director is an integral part of the development and implementation of the career community ecosystem. The role includes overseeing the career student communities, managing campus partner advisory boards, connecting students with exploration and networking opportunities through alumni mentorship and engagement, and providing tailored programming and advising services. The assistant director will oversee the International Student Career Community, the Black and Latinx Career Community, and more (full description).
About the Office of Career Exploration and Success:
We are committed to assisting students with making connections between their academic experience and career paths. We provide career-related counseling, resources, and programs to help individuals clarify academic and career goals, establish career plans, develop job-search skills, and make successful career transitions. We build relationships with alumni, employers, and graduate schools to optimize internship, job, and career opportunities while also creating strategic partnerships with campus departments to assist students in developing and articulating co-curricular experiences that will help to ensure they are competitive in their future pursuits.
The ideal candidates will subscribe to our core values:
COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO GROWTH: We build mutually beneficial partnerships across academic and departmental units. We value constructive internal and external feedback. We see our success as being directly correlated to a shared vision and reflective of our shared journey to benefit all students.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION: We embrace all types of diversity and view career development as an opportunity to impact social justice issues. We develop services and resources that address the needs of our diverse clientele. We commit to developing and empowering students from all backgrounds and experiences and believe this is a shared responsibility.
EXCELLENCE: Excellence will be imbued and reflected in all we do, from the relationships we create and nurture with our diverse clientele, to the services, programs, and information we provide, to how we interact with our colleagues internally and externally.
INNOVATION AND RELEVANCE: To stay relevant, we embrace innovation. We take calculated risks and view our audacity to try new approaches as a strength. We learn from our own experimentation and share it with the community as a whole, with a commitment to continuous improvement of our clientele’s career development experience at Rutgers. We strive to remain nimble, relevant for today, and ready for tomorrow.
POSITIVE WORK CLIMATE: We promote an organizational culture that reflects the importance of a workplace that is a model of professionalism. We strive to be productive, ethical, respectful, and growth-oriented. We promote a collegial environment where working hard can still be fun.
SMART OPERATING PRACTICES: We embrace the importance of efficiency in this fast-paced environment. We seek a synergistic and intentional approach to our operations. We value sharing thoughtful and timely data-driven decisions.
Visit careers.rutgers.edu/about to learn more about Career Exploration and Success.
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2yExcellent news! Excited for new professionals to join our team!
These sound like great positions William Jones Jr. Interesting. I love the transparency in posting.