Director of the Career Development Center

About Bellarmine University:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.

SmartAsset ranked Louisville among the top 25 U.S. cities for best work-life balance, while workplace insights platform kununu.com named Louisville one of the top five U.S. cities for happy employees. Glassdoor recently recognized Louisville as one of the top 15 cities for jobs, based on hiring opportunity, cost of living and job satisfaction. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 10 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Job Description:

This position is full-time, 12-month, with normal office hours of 8:00 am to 5:00 pm with occasional evening and weekend events.   

PRIMARY FUNCTION 

Through a collaborative and relational leadership approach, the Director of the Career Development Center provides departmental leadership, vision, and oversight to ensure alignment of the Career Development Center with the career needs of different constituencies including students and employers, anticipating future trends. This position works with employers to identify and maximize mutually beneficial learning and career opportunities for Bellarmine students. In partnership with their team and campus stakeholders, they leverage students' abilities to successfully secure employment, internships and job-related experiences, and work collaboratively with campus colleagues to prepare students for a successful graduate and professional school selection process and post-graduate career opportunities.  

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Cultivate relationships with employers, non-profit organizations, and associations that provide employment, career development, experiential learning, or credentialing opportunities. 
• Oversee the assessment, development, delivery and continuous improvement of career services, programs, and resources in six functional areas: career counseling, career information, first destination data management, employment services, experiential learning and graduate school advising. 
• Create and manage appropriate budgets, functional workflow, organization structure, job descriptions, policies and procedures, decision-making and problem-solving practices, information resources and systems, facilities, and equipment. 
• Supervise and develop two full-time Career Development Center employees, conducting annual performance reviews and enabling continuing professional development. 
• Implement appropriate information resources, systems, and technologies to manage contacts and opportunities effectively and efficiently, schedule activities and events, track progress and outcomes, communicate with internal and external individuals and groups, etc. 
• Maintain proactive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote the value of career services, experiential learning, a Bellarmine education, and Bellarmine students and alumni. 
• Facilitate student, faculty, staff and alumni communication and interaction with graduate schools, employers, recruiters and representatives of professional associations and other organizations. 
• Advise undergraduate and graduate healthcare (ex. physical therapy, nursing, respiratory therapy), health professions (ex. healthcare administration, health humanities), and pre-health professions (ex. biology, chemistry, neuroscience) students through one-on-one coaching in ways that support the Bellarmine Impact Advising Network, Bellarmine's core curriculum, NACE Career Readiness Competencies, and major-specific experiential learning and networking. 
• Serve as liaison for campus constituents, and external stakeholders, communicating pertinent information about experiential learning programs, job opportunities, careers, employers, industries, graduate and professional schools, employment trends and forecasts, etc. 
• Represent the university in appropriate professional and community organizations, such as National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), Southern Association of Colleges and Employers (SOACE), Kentucky Association of Colleges and Employers (KACE), National Career Development Association (NCDA), National Society for Experiential Education NSEE, Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU), Greater Louisville Inc. (GLI), Louisville Society of Human Resource Managers, (LSHRM), Career Leadership Collective, etc.  
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements, professional standards, and ethical responsibilities in the areas of information security, privacy rights, employment law, equal opportunity, access, affirmative action, and diversity.  
• Teach career and major exploration courses as needed with additional compensation.  
• Assist Enrollment Management, Alumni Relations, Academic Affairs, and other divisions with recruitment, retention, orientation, programming, and communication. 
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Vice President for Student Affairs or the Executive Director of Experiential Learning and Community Engagement. 

Standard office environment and equipment. Occasional evening and weekend events to accommodate student and alumni schedules. Occasional travel for employer relations, site visits, career fairs, and professional development. 

Requirements:

• Minimum of five years' experience in career services, experiential learning, recruitment, human resources, or a similar field.
• Master's degree in higher education, business administration, counseling psychology or a related field.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with direct experience in developing and managing strategic plans, budgets, projects, and people. 
• Familiarity with professional standards for college and university career services and experiential learning, career counseling competencies, career development guidelines, and career assessments, such as StrengthsQuest, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Kuder Journey. 
• Strong oral and written communication skills with experience in counseling, interviewing, facilitating, training and/or public speaking. 

Additional Information:

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Application Instructions:

Bellarmine University strongly recommends all students, faculty, and staff stay up to date on their Covid-19 vaccination. For guidance on whether you are considered up to date on your vaccinations, please visit the CDC site .

For consideration, you must submit a cover letter, a resume and three professional references.