Career Advisor chez Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

The Career Advisor provides individual, small-group, and large-group career coaching and educational programming to students in their assigned program areas. Responsible for engaging with students and playing a pivotal role in promoting student success throughout their academic program. This position serves undergraduate and graduate students, as well as alumni.

Position is based primarily on the Worcester campus, with coverage of Manchester, NH campus. This is an in-person position with some schedule flexibility for our online services.
The Career Development Center 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.

What we value:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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:
• Open & friendly: students, staff, and faculty find us approachable, welcoming, and encouraging.
• 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%)
• Advise students primarily in clinical-based programs regarding career development, employment strategy, and graduation.
• Collaborate with faculty on career-related 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; and identify experiential learning opportunities
• 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 workshops to meet professional development and learning outcomes in partnership with faculty.
• 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 managing departmental social media.
• Assist with the enhancement and ongoing maintenance of the Career Development Blackboard site, reference and instructional materials, 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 retreats and professional development.
• Contribute to sustaining and enhancing an inclusive working and learning environment.
• 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.