"Career Education Program Manager, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"

Job Details

Job Title: Career Education Program Manager, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 290346

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

About the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success (OUESS):

Under the leadership of the Vice Provost for OUESS, the OUESS challenges students to become accomplished learners who can make meaningful connections among work, study, and community. We connect curricular and co-curricular offerings to support students in developing a strong foundation for success, during college and after. We do this through the efforts of our faculty, professional staff, and students, and we strive to create and maintain a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive educational and work environment. Visit www.oue.gatech.edu

About the Office of The Career Center (CC):

The Career Center reports jointly to the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success (OUESS) and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education (GPE). The Center includes the Career Operations Team, which includes event planning, administrative support, and IT; the Undergraduate Career Education Team, which provides resources to undergraduate students to support their searches for full-time employment after graduation, such as help with the exploration, selection, and pursuit of meaningful careers; career counseling; resume writing interview tips, etc. and the Employer Connections team, which leads the effort to grow and maintain the elite brand and the diverse set of employers engaging the Georgia Tech campus. The center also shares responsibility for the Undergraduate cooperative education (Co-op) and Internship programs with the Office of Experiential and Engaged Learning and the Graduate Career Services and Internship Programs with the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education.

About the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts (IAC):

Established in 1990, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is a pioneer of liberal arts education and research at the nexus of the technical and human sciences. The academic programs are internationally acclaimed as models for liberal arts education in a technological age. Founded with the principles of its namesake, former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., the College of Liberal Arts believes in the power of transformative urban leadership that is rooted in courage, compassion, and human and social justice. The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts exemplifies Mayor Allen's legacy through its cross-disciplinary teaching, research, and service. In a research-intensive environment, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty and students examine a wide range of social and humanistic issues, defining their impact on society, culture, and policy, and exploring solutions in the public interest.

The Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts is composed of Georgia Tech's ROTC units and six schools: Economics; History and Sociology; Literature, Media, and Communication; Modern Languages; Public Policy; and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.

This position reports to the Director of Undergraduate Career Education in the Career Center.

Note on Working Time

This position must be available to work standard GT business hours M-F, 8-5 (or 7-4 or 9-6), as well as some evenings as weekends based on student programs and with advanced notice. We are looking for hardworking professionals who are dedicated to undergraduate education and make students the top priority to join our organization of talented, energetic, and creative team members.

Job Summary

The Program Manager works with many levels of leadership and staff to manage program efforts based on industry best practices; works as the single point of contact for facilitation and communication of program goals, deliverables, and schedules, and must be an excellent communicator; various levels of documentation will be produced at each stage of the program and the program manager is often the person who creates these with input from others.

This position may supervise: Assigned Staff

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the creation of program definitions, work breakdowns, rough order estimates, program plans, communication plans, and program schedules and specifications
• Research solutions to program management issues using the appropriate resources; lead short-term, tactical programs of diverse types
• Promote and follow the objectives, priorities, goals of programs through best practices and industry-standard methodologies
• Interact regularly with program sponsors, stakeholders, program teams, and others to determine their needs and use the existing program methodology to develop plans to address these efficiently
• Facilitate or contribute to team or programmatic meetings to communicate program timelines, milestones, and updates
• May participate in and provide information for the strategic planning process at the unit or department level
• Create program artifacts, agendas, presentations, and meeting minutes for program team; Prepare reports and program documentation
• May provide training, guidance, and direction to other staff, especially as it pertains to the use of tools for effective program management
• Perform other job-related duties assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience
Two or more years of job-related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Certifications, Licenses or Permits:
o Project Management Professional - (PMP)
o Certified Associate in Project Management - (CAPM)

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree

Preferred Experience
Five to seven years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications
Educational background in one of the degrees offered in the college or a related discipline
Masters Degree

Preferred Experience
Five to seven years of job-related experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS
Strong ability to collaborate with multiple and diverse constituents to accomplish goals. Analytical mind and problem solver with ability to think systemically

Abilities
Ability to develop and scale college-specific programs to secure career opportunities including career fairs and other events.
Ability to present impact reports highlighting KPIs, successes, and career outcomes to senior-level leadership.

Skills
Budgetary management.
Monitoring performance metrics to measure the quality and effectiveness of programs.
Actively participating in college-specific activities including, but not limited to, orientation, student recruitment, alumni events, graduation, Living-Learning Community activities, and participate as a guest speaker in courses.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Communicate effectively with multiple audiences, both internal and external, with flexibility and strong problem-solving skills.

Other Information

Salary Range: $65,000 to $74,841, annual. Salary will be commensurate with experience and education.
Location: Atlanta, GA
Additional Duties Related to the Position: Assist with developing strategies to reach Georgia Tech students with high quality career education through delivering multi-modal career education initiatives. Cultivate a campus community that prepares all students for their future. With an emphasis on presenting, teaching, training champions, and group sessions, this role will strategically develop and scale opportunities and programs which empower all students to identify career paths, secure internships and/or co-ops, and ultimately find career success upon graduation. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Career Center Leadership and Staff, Students, Faculty, Alumni, and employer representatives. This position will typically advise and counsel: Career Center Leadership and Staff, Students, Faculty, Alumni, and employer representatives.
The Career Education Program Manager position will be embedded within the assigned college to provide customized career programming and career advising. This role will also expand employment opportunities for students by developing alumni relationships associated with the College and additional business development efforts. Additional responsibilities include the following:

• Develop and deliver programming, training, classroom presentations, workshops, initiatives, and advising models, which support students in identifying career pathways, co-op, internships, and post-graduation career opportunities.
• Create career education content that is relevant and deliverable in various presentation settings
• Serve as a career education liaison to an assigned college and support efforts to serve other high-need colleges.
• Develop initiatives to scale and integrate career development into the fabric of the assigned college; support office-wide efforts to create and activate a robust career ecosystem that serves all students from all colleges and majors. Building relationships with academic college faculty, staff, and administrative assistants.
• Expand engagement with key departments on campus, such as academic advising, pre-professional advising, athletics, student life, and other constituents.
• Interact regularly with program sponsors, stakeholders, program teams, and others to determine their needs and use the existing program methodology to develop plans to address these efficiently.
• Collect and report data in all relevant databases and systems.