Career Design Coach

The Career Design Coach’s focus is to actively engage, educate, and empower individuals by delivering top-tier services in career prototyping, including experiential learning opportunities, career development, fostering personal connections with industry professionals, and successful job attainment.

• Provide on-going coaching to assigned/referred students and support of caseload students enrolled in all academic programs and colleges. Collaborate with students from diverse backgrounds to identify their career interests and challenges. Help students evaluate internship and job opportunities, location considerations, offer/benefits packages, and ultimately ensure that the student/graduate is as confident in the opportunity as possible. During this process, retain an understanding of the resources across campus and within colleges relevant to caseload to allow for the ability to provide referrals to campus partners as appropriate (e.g., advising, counseling, and financial aid).
• Provide proactive and responsive outreach to assigned students based on various data sources (e.g., caseload determination, referral sources, etc.) Exercise cultural competence and an awareness of the intersection of identities as they build rapport and trust with students about career competencies, career self-efficacy, and the career design process. Connect students to appropriate external connections to allow for “testing” of career design hypotheses. Encourage and recognize successful students.
• Develop and implement caseload relevant custom career design programming, collaborating with colleagues across campus to create an inclusive environment that acknowledges the unique needs of students, including neurodiversity, marginalized and historically underserved students including students of color, first-generation, LGBTQ+, and international students.
• Participate in on-going training and development internally as well as externally, including a community of practice among coaches and key campus partners as well as within industry associations, trade-groups, etc. to ensure the support provided to students is current.    
• Other duties as assigned.

The following Degree is Required:

• Bachelor’s degree. Degree must be conferred at the time of application.

The following Degree is preferred:

• Align with an industry sector interest, counseling, advising, higher education administration, or related degree program

The following Experience is required:

• 1 year of work experience in one of the following:
  • Vocational/career coaching
  • Training and development
  • HR
  • advising/counseling
  • Teaching 
  • Mentoring/coaching

The following Experience is preferred:

• Experience in program and/or event management
• Experience in presenting

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstration of life design mindsets: curiosity, reframing, reflecting, taking action, and collaboration
• Experience in active learning, project-based and/or inclusive pedagogies
• Knowledge of or ability to learn design thinking concepts, student development theories, and career development theories 
• Coaching oriented philosophy of student support
• Critical thinking skills 
• Active listening skills 
• Compassionate and caring attitude toward working with students 
• Effective in working with diverse populations 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills  
• Strong organizational and time management skills 
• Ability to interact well with students, parents, faculty, administrators and other members of the campus and community 
• Understanding of the functions of an institution of higher education, including academic and student affairs 
• An understanding of student learning outcomes associated with the completion of general education curriculum and baccalaureate/liberal arts degree 
• Knowledge of or ability to learn University academic policies and procedures, as well as available degree programs and support services
• Knowledge of computer applications including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, People Soft/CSS, student success software, various learning management systems, and an ability to learn and adopt other technologies

Deadline to apply:  The search committee will review applications until the position is filled; however, for best consideration, applications should be provided by April 5, 2024.  

Bowling Green State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer . We are committed to a multicultural environment and strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Bowling Green State University, please call 419-372-8421 or email [email protected] .