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Form of workActs as a dedicated Career and Professional Development resource for students in the Part-time JD program, beginning with their pre-orientation commitment to matriculation at Stetson Law and throughout law school.Ensures that each part-time student has a clear understanding of the Career and Professional Development path ahead of them, including connections to co-curricular and experiential opportunities to gain insight, momentum, and mentors.Leads, develops, and facilitates impactful initiatives that affect part-time student Professional Development, student employment, and graduate employment.Seeks out and provides engagement opportunities to part-time students, graduates, and alumni to inform, empower, and supply the tools needed to achieve individual career success.Informs departmental and institutional discussions and priorities and works with Assistant Dean and faculty in creating, compiling and assembling curated and custom resources, data, events, and tools that are responsive to identified needs.
- Builds relationships with individual part-time students and ensures visibility, accessibility and credibility as a pathfinder and trail guide.Brings the resources and tools as and when needed and teaches new career skills.
- Engages, coaches, motivates, and prepares students and graduates to establish and achieve career goals.Teaches students to use the most effective tools instead of the familiar tools, overcome new individual barriers to success, and encourages/inspires student participation in Professional Development activities and events.
- Creates solutions to and resolves logistical and systemic problems.Identifies unique part-time student needs and important opportunities to meet or exceed student and graduate expectations, build student confidence and accelerate professional identity development and facilitate transformation.
- Originates, develops, and leads interactive workshops, seminars, and group meetings to build student professional, career, and job acquisition skills and competencies, and to identify opportunities to serve student and alumni career needs. In response to identified demand, creates, plans, and presents compelling, and attractive contemporary programming, using external resources (alums and experts).
- Authors, develops, organizes, and updates curriculum materials including workbooks, videos, webinars, and other materials.
- Identifies role models and presents potential mentors for part-time students; facilitates relationships and connections to strengthen part-time student competencies and insight.
- Seeks out and develops connections and relationships that lead to opportunities for part-time students and alumni populations and builds new inroads into new job markets, creating new opportunities for part time graduates.
- May be assigned to serve and participate on committees.
- Maintains a collaborative work environment and works well with others.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access); Adobe, Banner, and others as may be necessary.Strong MS Excel skills required.Symplicity experience strongly preferred.
Work duties performed primarily in temperature-controlled office, with frequent customer interaction. Some travel and evening/week-end work required. Lifting occasionally up to 20 lbs. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Required Experience
Juris Doctor required, preferably achieved through a part-time JD program; broad knowledge of the legal profession, 3 to 5 years combined or mixed experience in law practice, career counseling, Professional Development, student or lawyer career or Professional Development services or recruitment, preferably in a legal setting. Excellent interpersonal skills and commitment to student services are necessary and strong written and oral communication skills are required. Ability and desire to work as part of a high functioning team, and to lead the team on occasions in specific activities. Flexibility to work frequently outside of regular office hours; frequent travel required. Works to build an environment that promotes and facilitates the success of Diversity and Inclusive Excellence.
