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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Director of Working Professional Career Education amp; Coaching, Texas McCombs in Austin, Texas
TALENT MANAGEMENT: Directly supervise 4 FTE (Career and Talent Development Consultants). Nurture, retain and grow the professional development of each team members. Shadow and coach staff for advising and instruction. Benchmark and provide the latest resources for staff on professional development for advising and coaching.?STRATEGY AND INNOVATION: Identify ways we can enhance the career management experience every academic year, including ways to improve programming, our Canvas site, and career tools. Supporting the scaling of experienced hire strategy across the WP team.CAREER EDUCATION PROGRAMMING:Manage career programming and education for WP students across Evening, Houston, DFW, Executive MBA and MSTC Programs. Lead enhancements and deployment of the 15hr interactive WP career curriculum across the first year of each students' MBA lifecycle.Teach workshops as needed. Benchmark industry best practices and assess new opportunities for improvement in how we educate students on navigating their careers.CAREER CONSULTING:Train the team on career consulting best practices. Shadow and coach staff for advising and instruction. Provide career advising as needed, and support team in handling difficult student situations/circumstances. Benchmark and provide the latest resources for staff on professional development for advising and coaching. Research self-assessment and other tools for students for use in coaching. Manage the advising system and help the career consultant team understand more strategically how to manage their coaching load through group sessions and career fellows.OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS:Manage budget for the team. Support evaluation and implementation of new vendors for use in WP programs. Evaluate use of existing vendors each year for continuation of purchase. Assist Managing Director with internal operations and budget. Assist Senior Director in assessing current advising and instruction systems/data/metrics and developing recommendations for improving metrics and process.Manage reporting on student activity and career performance.EMPLOYER AND ALUMNI RELATIONS: Partner with the Employer and Alumni Engagement team and the Alumni Career Management to build a strong ecosystem of alumni/employers who are interested in supporting our students' career journeys via experienced hire/just-in-time processes.Identify new ways to leverage our alumni to support career education and coaching programming efforts and help scale high-touch connections.ADMISSIONS AND MARKETING:Foster a strong partnership with Admissions and support the admissions strategy with data analytics and storytelling on student career performance and success across industry sectors. Coordinate with Admissions on student issues related to success in the career search.?COMMUNICATIONS AND CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS:Serve as communications lead to the WP students for Career Management Team, and with MPO, MSTC program, Employer and Alumni Engagement, Recruitment Operations, Business Development, McCombs+, Student Experience, and Admissions for calendaring, event planning and scheduling.