Career Services Coordinator

Career Advising 

The Career Services Coordinator will serve as the main career advisor to dedicated student groups in the social sciences and humanities. This involves responsibilities and duties including: 

• Conducting one-on-one career advising sessions with CEU students and alumni on common career development topics 
• Developing sector and industry-specific knowledge to aid discussions with students and alumni 
• Engaging directly with assigned student populations and conducting other outreach to promote CSO initiatives 
• Organizing and facilitating in-person and/or virtual career education and/or employer events 
• Identifying job, internship and fellowship opportunities of relevance to CEU students and alumni and sharing this information via CEU’s careers platform, CareerNext 
• Gathering information about employers of potential relevance to specific student groups and attending occasional meetings with current and potential employer partners 
• Contributing to CSO efforts to track student engagement with the office. 

 Together with the core career advising work, the team member will have the opportunity to contribute to a range of tasks and activities, such as: 

• Helping to ensure students and the larger CEU community are aware of CSO’s activities by contributing to outreach and engagement efforts (e.g. using social media, creating posters, website). 
• Participating in external partnership development by engaging with potential employers and internship hosts of CEU students. 
• Creating resources to help inform and educate students and alumni about careers topics such as job/internship hunting, application documents, networking, and interview skills. 
• Recording data and contributing to the creation of reports. 
• Researching new and current career topics of potential interest to students and alumni. 

 This list is an example of the types of work that the new colleague may be involved in and is not exhaustive. The team member may be assigned additional functional programs or projects. 

Qualifications and skills

 Mandatory: 

• Teaching/presenting, tutoring, mentoring and/or career counseling experience. 
• Experience in developing and facilitating educational workshops and/or training and in designing educational/training materials. 
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Excellent research and writing skills. 
• A strong learning inclination (i.e. takes pleasure in constant learning on the job). 
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills. 
• Experience in working and/or studying in a multi-cultural environment. 
• University degree (Bachelor’s or higher, Master’s preferred). 
• Near native-level fluency in English (written and oral). 

Assets:  

• Knowledge of career paths pursued by graduate and/or undergraduate university graduates of degree programs in the social sciences and humanities in the non-profit, public, multilateral and/or private sectors, both within and outside of Europe. 
• Experience with social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). 
• Experience with design and communication tools (e.g. Canva, Constant Contact, InDesign). 
• Experience administering surveys and feedback forms. 

Compensation