Associate Director of Career Management, MBA & Master's Programs

Job Summary:

The Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) seeks a service-focused and outcome-oriented Associate Director of Career Management, MBA & Master's Programs to join our strong and energized career management team. In this role, you will work directly with students in the Full-time MBA (5 years average experience) and Specialty Master's (0-3 years average experience) students in areas such as supply chain management, marketing, and technology strategy and project management. Additionally, you will engage with working professional students (hybrid Professional MBA program 6-7 years average experience, potential engagement with Executive MBA program 17 years average experience), particularly in programming that overlaps both residential and working professional populations.

Our Full-time MBA and Master's students are admitted from across the globe and join our programs with diverse and interesting work and life experience, including veterans and under-represented minority students. Due to the hybrid nature of the Professional MBA and Executive MBA programs, students attend from across the Midwest and with broader reach across the country. Their shared goals for attending our programs is career enhancement - either changing careers completely ('career switcher') or advancing in their current industry or functional role. This position supports our student's career progression, through delivering workshops and programs, one-on-one coaching, partnering with WSB Knowledge Centers and Programs, engaging WSB alumni, and more.

This role will also be the key strategic leader in supporting students in the Consortium program and developing strategic programming in areas like case interview preparation. The associate director will manage staff who coach across the portfolio of programs: Full-time MBA, Specialty Master's, Professional MBA, and Executive MBA. If you are detail-oriented, enjoy varied work activities throughout the day, like collaborating with different groups of people, and appreciate ownership of specific projects while also working within a close-knit team, we invite you to apply for this job.

Responsibilities:

Leads one or more major operations of the career services unit and assists in the development of strategy, policy, and protocol. Administers services and cultivates relationships for career development and/or employer relations efforts within a school or college to ensure students receive quality career services support. Represents the director when needed and strives to create a welcoming, equitable, and inclusive work environment.

• 35% Leads one or more major operations of the career services unit and assists in the development of career-development-focused or employer relations-focused strategic planning initiatives and objectives
• 20% Assists in the development of strategic planning initiatives to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources, and alignment with the strategic plan
• 15% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• 5% Identifies, promotes, and maintains external partnerships to understand employment needs and encourage recruitment of the institution's students
• 5% Assists in the development of career services policies and procedures
• 5% Participates in campus-wide career services community providing input to leadership regarding the development of advising, recruitment, and co/curricular programs offered by the school/college
• 10% Serves as Consortium lead in developing and execute the boot camp and onboarding program to prepare incoming FT MBA Consortium students for summer orientation program (OP).
• 5% Leads strategic development of programming to support residential students seeking roles that require case interview preparation, including vendor and internal relationship management.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Preferred
Master's Degree

Qualifications:

Required:
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience in the areas of higher education, career management, employer relations, human resources, or related field.

Preferred:
- Career advising, recruitment and employment/workforce. Experience working with MBA and Master's populations is highly desired.
- A growth environment, where one has autonomy to strategically build new systems, improve and elevate existing processes, and collaborate with colleagues and direct reports to enhance organizational outcomes.
- Proven effectiveness in delivering career-related workshops and webinars of varying topics across multiple communication mediums, and optimizing programming related to strategic objectives.
- Routinely working with student data - inputting into online management systems, analyzing, running reports, and using insights for decision making.
- Exceptional oral and written communication, public speaking, customer service skills and effectiveness working individually, on a team, and across stakeholder groups.
- Experience leading operations or teams with career services and/or developing strategic initiatives and objectives.

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $75,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The employee in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.

Additional Information:

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

Diversity and inclusion are primary values for the Wisconsin School of Business and are integral to achieving our strategic goals. We seek candidates with an awareness of and commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion across all spectrums. Our school is committed to continuously increasing the cultural competence of its staff and faculty members through school-wide forums and professional development opportunities.

How to Apply:

Please complete the online application and attach a cover letter addressing your qualifications and experiences specifically relating to the responsibilities of this position as described along with a comprehensive resume.

Our search committee will review all application materials after the posted deadline. We will notify selected applicants to participate further in the selection process directly. We will notify all applicants once the search is completed and we have selected a top candidate. As applicants move on to next steps in the process, they will be asked to provide names and contact information (e-mail address, phone number, and mailing address) of at least three references.

Contact:

Se Yang
se.yang@wisc.edu
608-263-2975
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

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Official Title:

Career Svcs Assoc Dir (B)(AE130)

Department(s):

A12-WISCONSIN SCH OF BUSINESS/MBA & MASTER'S PROGRAMS

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

301143-AS

 

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