"Career Services - Junior Career Coach (Graduate)"

Job Details

Graduate Students in this role fulfill various tasks in support of Career Services. Career Coach trains students and alumni on methods for leveraging their education and experience to achieve vocational goals, excelling in the workplace as Champions for Christ.

This Junior Career Coach position requires an individual who is pursuing a graduate degree. Applicant should also possess strong written and oral communication skills, professionalism, interpersonal skills including a collaborative and team-oriented work style, and a creative approach to coaching.

The position is part-time, for 20 hours a week. The employment period for this position is from the first day of class for the Fall and Spring semesters, until the last day of class for each semester.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

1. Answer phones and taking messages for professional staff.
2. Supporting students with a variety of resources primarily Handshake.
3. Assisting professional staff members with projects.
4. General office duties.
5. Complete on-going training and attend regularly scheduled meetings.
6. Support programming across all divisions of Career Services.
7. Other duties as assigned.

Additional information may be found here

Qualifications, Credentials, and Competencies

Effective communication both verbally and in writing. Ability to intuitively reason, analyze information and events, and apply judgment in order to solve problems of both a routine and complex nature. Takes initiative, highly motivated and organized. Regularly lift 10 or fewer pounds.

Target Hire Date

2026-01-05

Time Type

Part time

Location

Lynchburg - In Office

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes. The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University’s hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the “religion” component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.