Career Advisor, Career and Professional Development

About Career & Professional DevelopmentCareer & Professional Development (CPD) empowers students and alumni to explore, prepare for, and pursue meaningful careers through personalized guidance, experiential learning, and employer engagement. Its purpose is to bridge academic experiences with professional opportunities, fostering lifelong career success and industry connections. CPD is one of five offices on campus providing career development services to a wide community of DU students and alumni. CPD serves all the undergraduate programs (except the Daniels College of Business), College of Professional Studies, multiple graduate programs, and alumni not served by the other career services offices on campus.About the OpportunityReporting directly to the Associate Director, Graduate Career Development, the Career Advisor, Graduate Career Development provides direct comprehensive career services for graduate students and first-year alumni. The Career Advisor is the primary liaison to graduate STEM degrees and programs including the Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science (RSECS), College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics (CNSM), and STEM programs in the College of Professional Studies (PCS). The Career Advisor will develop and support strategic initiatives with career curriculum integration including working with the faculty and staff to integrate career education into classes and college-specific programming. As an outward-facing role, this position will also include presenting career education concepts in classes, for student organizations, 4D Experience initiatives, and other similar requests from units across campus. The position requires using data-informed practices to increase student engagement in career development thereby contributing to DU's bold goals of increasing positive student outcomes at graduation.Essential FunctionsCareer Advising- Deliver 1:1 career advising to individuals and groups of graduate students and recent alumni within STEM degrees and programs through in-person and virtual appointments including resume/CV/cover letter reviews, internship/job search strategy, informational interviews and networking guidance, career exploration, interview practice and coaching, and salary/offer negotiation assistance.- Practice a market-based approach in career planning and advising students and understand the degrees offered within assigned colleges and programs.- Accurately track student interactions and engagements in the 12Twenty (PCO) system.- Utilize engagement data in Tableau to track engagement and organize a strategy for increasing engagement for assigned student populations.- Utilize available DU technologies and platforms like Digication and Mediaspace to provide scalable access to career information and materials.- Set goals and track metrics that contribute to the CPD Strategic Plan.Program & Event Development- Provide career education programs to engage the students in the career development process and align with CPD's career readiness goals.- Use data insights to inform strategic planning, graduate curriculum integration, and program innovation.- Design presentations on career-related and professional development topics; connect with students through classroom presentations and student groups for liaison areas and additional requests as needed from campus partners and 4D Experience initiatives.- Work with CPD's Communications Coordinator to develop integrated strategies to promote events to relevant campus partners and departmental marketing and communications staff.- Partner with Alumni Engagement to leverage Crimson Constellation and other platforms to enhance student and alumni connections and participation in career initiatives.- Collaborate with Employer Connections and industry partners to identify and promote job opportunities and career-related programming.- Create and track events and attend nce in 12Twenty (PCO), CPD's career management system.- May have the opportunity to teach the Careers & Leadership course offered to all undergraduate students and other career-related courses at the graduate level (master's degree required to teach).Partnerships & University Citizenship- Serve as an active and collaborative partner to all central and unit-based Advancement and Career & Professional Development functions and other campus colleagues, to foster strategic, effective, and collaborative career and professional development practices.- Model

Created: 2025-11-15