What are the responsibilities and job description for the Career Advisor position at MCPHS?
The Career Development Center (CDC) is an 11-person team providing comprehensive career services for students who are in demand for the healthcare and life science education and skill sets.
The CDC seeks a Career Advisor to provide individual, small-group, and large-group career coaching and educational programming in-person and online to undergraduate and graduate students in professional healthcare programs. Responsible for engaging with students and playing a pivotal role in promoting student success throughout their academic program.
Position is based on the Boston campus, with occasional travel to Worcester campus for specific programming and events. This is an in-person position with some schedule flexibility for our online services.
What we value:
- The initiative to look for new ways to serve our students, the creativity to design workable solutions, and the drive, smarts, and organizational skill to implement them.
- Diverse backgrounds & perspectives, enabling us to establish trust and rapport with all our students, and to draw on a range of strengths and viewpoints in our teamwork.
- Desire to grow as a professional: there is great opportunity to integrate career development into the academic curriculum, learn new skills, take on new areas of responsibility, and improve your future career prospects.
The way we work:
- Professional & friendly: students, staff, and faculty find us approachable, organized, and capable.
- Collaborative & community-oriented: we communicate, coordinate, and cooperate to get things done as a team; to maximize our impact, we work closely with staff and faculty from other offices and academic departments.
Student Advising (60%)
- Provide online and in-person career workshops to undergraduate and graduate students in professional healthcare programs.
- Educate and advise students and recent graduates on resumes, cover letters, interviews, networking, and employment strategies to support professional goals.
- Review resumes, cover letters and practice interviews required by faculty as course assignments to prepare students for their job search.
- Help students connect experiences in and out of the classroom with their career aspirations.
- Maintain working knowledge of assigned employment markets through employer and alumni interviews and industry resources; monitor and report employment trends and changes to Career Development Center and relevant academic programs.
- Recommend and implement information exchange to support student referrals between academic programs and Career Development Center.
- Identify best practices and industry trends for enhancing higher education career development.
- Pursue professional development relevant to student achievement and success.
- Present educational workshops on career topics in classroom, student organization, panelist, and guest speaker formats.
Collaboration and Communications (25%)
- Create and facilitate in-class workshops in partnership with faculty to meet professional development and learning outcomes for students. In-class presentations are conducted in-person and online.
- Establish methods and opportunities for regular communication and information exchange through collaborative relationships with faculty and staff in assigned academic programs.
- Collaborate with the staff on all campuses to develop communication strategy to maximize messaging, branding, and visibility.
- Assist with the enhancement and ongoing maintenance of instructional materials for the Career Development website, Blackboard site, Handshake, Career Link CRM system, and Student Success Hub.
Other (15%)
- Serve as Career Development Center liaison for committees and programs with other University departments.
- Participate in annual University events (Orientation, Open Houses, Resource Fairs, academic ceremonies, alumni programs) as needed.
- Participate in office retreats and professional development.
- Work to meet annual goals based on assessments and evaluations of previous services and events, and student requests.
- Contribute to the department’s data collection efforts following policies and protocols, and to the preparation of departmental and university reports.
- Support deans/faculty with recruitment of alumni as campus guests and mentors.
- Additional responsibilities may be assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, education, or related discipline, or comparable credential in workforce development or human resources.
- Minimum of 2 years direct client service in career exploration and/or employment preparation.
- Proven success with group presentations on topics related to career success, employment preparation, professional branding, or job search strategies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to follow procedures and protocols established by supervisor.
- High-level proficiency with MS Office suite, online searching, and contact management systems.
- Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to travel to other MCPHS campuses 2-3 times per semester.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in psychology, counseling, education, or related discipline.
- Experience providing direct student support in career advising/coaching in higher education.
Physical Requirements:
- Typical office or administrative working conditions. Staff is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
- Ability to move between offices and floors of buildings
- Ability to be physically in attendance at designated worksite during scheduled work hours and to work some evenings and weekends
- Normal range of vision and hearing (with or without correction)
- Ability to lift up to 5-10 lbs