Assistant/Associate Director, Career Coaching & Experiential Learning

The Berry Career Institute is currently seeking an assistant/associate director, career coaching & experiential learning.

This position serves as a member of the Career Institute programming team and lead for the Dimensions Program for the Science and Culture of Healthcare.

The assistant/associate director is responsible for developing, promoting, and assessing activities that enable students to explore, refine, and advance academic and professional interests and obtain successful outcomes upon graduation.

Duties & Responsibilities


* Student Advising: Counsel students interested in careers in STEM fields, with a particular focus upon health sciences, such as medicine, health psychologies, and public health.

Maintain membership with the National Association for Advisors of the Health Profession.


* Graduate School Preparation: Develop and coordinate the application process for students applying to relevant graduate and professional schools.

This includes authorship of committee letters of recommendation.


* Experiential Learning: Assist with placement of internships, independent projects, job shadowing, and summer research.

Coordinate and process student applications for sponsored internships and independent studies.

Research and explore opportunities before arranging student involvement.


* Event Management/Administration: Organize program workshops, seminars, and the Dimensions reading group.

Make necessary arrangements for visiting alumni, speakers, and presenters.


* Admissions Support: Assist in admissions activities such as preview days, prospective student visits, and contacting students interested in the health sciences.


* Relationship Management: Serve as liaison between the Program and departmental offices, including Admissions, Alumni & College Advancement, and various offices within the Department of Student Affairs as necessary (Family Weekend, NSO, Cornell Fellows program).

Maintain and foster relationships with faculty, the Health Professions Society, Cornell alumni, professional and graduate schools, local and regional healthcare professionals, and healthcare advisors at other institutions.


* Administrative: Coordinate tracking and assessment initiatives, manage the Dimension budget, process vendor payments and internship stipends, manage the resource center, and support fundraising staff to ensure program sustainability.


* Marketing: Coordinate marketing event communications and publications for the program.

About Cornell College

Cornell College is a selective liberal arts college distinguished by our Ingenuity curriculum that builds on the strengths of our One Course At A Time schedule.

This combination encourages the qualities of being thoughtful, original, and inventive, using the strengths of a liberal arts education to apply ideas to solve problems and meet challenges through hands-on experience in learning.

Academic immersion, Division III NCAA athletic teams, and unparalleled flexib...