Associate Director, Professional Engagement

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Broad understanding of the legal profession and a wide variety of practice disciplines and settings normally gained through a program of legal education, law school, or practice in a law office.
• Broad and deep understanding of career development principles and tools, resources and materials sufficient to advise students and monitor progress. Understanding of and sensitivity to human behavior and risks associated with stress and anxiety.
• Judgement skills sufficient to manage normal campus risks, oversee student events and classrooms, advise students on jobs, workplaces, behavior, social occasions, behavior, interactions with supervisors, and interviewers, and the like.
• Social skills sufficient to gain credibility and authority with campus constituencies (students, faculty, staff) and external constituencies (employers, alumni, and community members). Ability to influence members of those constituencies.
• Cultural competency sufficient to work with all students and to understand differences, to facilitate a culture of belonging and inclusion, and incorporate those principles into tools and skills development activities and curricula.

Required Qualifications

• J.D. is preferred. If the candidate does not possess a J.D. they must possess an advanced degree in an Education discipline, Public Administration, Social Services, Psychology, Counseling, or Business Administration.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in a professional, related student-facing position requiring credibility and authority.