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ESA Deputy Director - Direct Reports

About the Department

Career Advancement serves a student population of 7,000+ arts and sciences undergraduate students, in addition to alumni who have graduated within the last five years. Career Advancement plays a vital role in ensuring our students\' success after graduation. Career Advancement offers innovative and comprehensive career development services with a focus on pre-professional preparation, experiential education, and opportunities. Through career advising, programs, and comprehensive resources, Career Advancement supports undergraduate students and alumni as they develop the skills necessary to manage their career development, while working with alumni and employers to provide students with meaningful opportunities. For more information, please visit the Career Advancement website at careeradvancement.uchicago.edu.

Job Summary

The Assistant Director will leverage industry expertise and prior experience to execute career programs, flagship events, and employer engagement sessions to supporting students\' career development. This role will conduct strategic initiatives that provide comprehensive career guidance, fostering early career exploration and skill development for first-year students. The Assistant Director will collaborate with career advisers and employer partners to contribute to student success, helping to ensure strong post-graduation outcomes and long-term career growth.

Responsibilities

Implements tailored programming for first-year undergraduates, focusing on career exploration, skill development, and early engagement with career resources.

Executes a comprehensive first-year career strategy for Career Advancement advisers that aligns with the University\'s commitment to student career success and professional advancement.

Cultivates trusting and positive student relationships through pre-orientation programming, events, and student advising appointments.

Plans and facilitates workshops, events, and career-related activities that introduce first-year students to various industries and equips them with relevant tools and resources for early careers.

Provides individual and group career advising to first-year students, including Odyssey Scholars programming, offering guidance on resume building, internship searches, networking, and developing a career plan.

Recommends students to employer partners, tracks their recruiting progress, ideates new opportunities, and collaborates with career advisers to support student placement and success.

Works cross-departmentally to integrate career programming into the broader first-year experience and beyond.

Creates and disseminates targeted email and print communications to ensure first-year students are informed of career resources and opportunities and can navigate their internship search with ease.

Collaborates with student preparation teams to create and administer targeted programming to make undergraduate students successful in their job/internship searches. This includes sessions on career exploration, recruiting tools, interviewing techniques, college/work transition, and the trek.

Supports on-campus and virtual programs for undergraduate students, assists with the planning and execution in the entirety of the event management cycle (e.g. event location, catering, AV/tech needs, transportation arrangements, speaker and leadership briefings, event memos, etc.). This includes flagship events including career fairs, Night on Wall Street, Consulting Symposium, Diversity + Inclusion Summit.

Works with other event staff to assess event needs, identify and implement ideas for improvement, and solicit post-event feedback and performance; collects and analyze event data and outcomes to identify trends and opportunities, and provides general office support as needed.

Executes day-to-day event logistics, reviews and finalizes the guest lists, assists with (e)mailing invitations and event brochures.

Tracks student engagement data, develops targeted outreach to students, ensures event attendance and positive student and employer experience.

Utilizes the undergraduate job platform, Handshake, to build reports on student and employer engagement, and implements them to capture cross-industry activities and identify trends.

Tracks budgets, logistics, and all administrative aspects involved in the event planning process.

Collects and analyzes data on first-year student engagement and outcomes, implementing insights to drive innovative career programming and student support, including cohort-specific engagement.

Assesses and analyzes student demand, career interests, and geographic interests, and supports Career Advancement\'s early engagement model by creating opportunities for students based on this data.

Highlights how early engagement career cohorts align with organizations\' recruiting strategies and early identification tools.

Reviews dashboards within Salesforce to closely track student engagement