Career Educator

Staff - Non UnionJob CategoryM&P - AAPSJob ProfileAAPS Salaried - Student Management, Level BJob TitleCareer EducatorDepartmentCareer Development | UBC Career Centre | UBC Career CentreCompensation Range$6, $9,701.42 CAD Monthly

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Posting End DateAugust 8, 2024

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Aug 14, 2025

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Career Educator supports UBC students to become career-ready graduates - able to connect their talents, interests and education to the changing world of work. Working strategically with campus partners to leverage disciplinary learning, high impact experiences, and to broaden the approach to career development, the Career Educator is responsible for supporting student learning and promoting student engagement in career building experiences within and beyond the university. The Career Educator designs, develops, delivers, and evaluates in-person and online career learning across the graduate student experience (Masters, PhD and Postdocs)

In collaboration with, Faculties and Academic departments, and Vice-President, Students, the Career Educator will achieve results in four key areas of responsibility:

1. Design and deliver career building experiences that support students career education and professional development.

2. Expand students opportunities to engage with employers, alumni and community.

3. Develop online career content and support the curation of other career related resources.

4. Embed career learning in other forms of experiential learning and in high impact co-curricular and extra-curricular experiences.

Across all four areas of responsibility, the incumbent will apply career learning theories and principles, explore relevant labor market trends, and employ advising and coaching practices to deliver, assess and evaluate programs and services to students.

Organizational Status
The UBC Career Centre facilitates and enhances student learning through career education that is integrated into the UBC student experience. To prepare graduates for their next step after graduation, student career preparation complements academic study and involves a combination of of career education, access to experiences/opportunities, access to alumni and other key people for supportive constructive collisions. The Centre is a central point for all graduate and undergraduate students and employers on the UBC Vancouver campus to meet, connect, network and build relationships. The UBC Career Centre provides all UBC students access and connection to workplace learning, mentoring, volunteer and leadership opportunities; and offers career services to students, academic departments, employers, families, and alumni.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Reporting to the Manager, Career and Professional Development, the Career Educator, will work closely with colleagues in the UBC Career Centre and within the Vice-President, Students Portfolio. Additional partnerships will vary within and across faculties, academic departments, and other actors within the campus ecosystem. Externally, develops and maintains relationships with employers and industry partners in order to build resources and programs to support undergraduate and graduate career development and learning. Coaches and trains student leaders, student staff and volunteers. Assists with training and supervision of support staff and training of new career coaches and advisors within the UBC Career Centre.

Work Performed

This position has five key responsibilities, with the following related duties, deliverables, and results:

1. Develop and deliver engaging career building experiences that support students career education and professional development.

· Support student learning and promote student engagement in career building experiences, across the student experience, within and beyond the university.

· Design, deliver, and evaluate in person and online career programs, services, and resources based on industry knowledge, innovative theory, and evidence-based practices within the fields of career development and student affairs, and always in full consideration of students career development needs.

· Provide career coaching and advising for students on a variety of career and professional development topics and work search (for example: career exploration, researching the labour market, choosing a major of study, making meaning of one s disciplinary learning, facilitating experiential learning and reflection, gaining work/volunteer/leadership experience, resumes, cvs, job and professional school interviews, networking and connecting to the workplace community).

· Collaborate with various campus partners to develop, deliver, and evaluate events and programs for particular populations of students. This includes planning and designing the program(s), promotion, coordinating faculty or industry participation, and coordinating the involvement of other members of the Centre for Student Involvement and Careers and/or other partners. These events may include job search fairs, Career Expos, Speaker Series, departmental career/majors-specific events, majors exploration events, student leadership development training/programs, web resources, peer mentoring programming, workshops, etc.

· Work strategically with campus partners to bring career expertise and broaden the approach to career development across multiple career building experiences in order to cultivate identity development, foster leadership capacities, and grow mentorship and networking opportunities for students.

· Identify when students are in crisis or in need of health support and refer to appropriate level of support or intervention (i.e. Emergency Services, Counseling Services, Early Alert).

2. Expand students opportunities to engage with employers, alumni and community.

· In collaboration with Employer Engagement and Alumni UBC, build and maintain relationships with alumni, employers and other members of the workplace community to strategically develop resources and programming that initiate connections and provide networking opportunities for students within and beyond UBC.

· Develop and create opportunities for students to connect with and learn from alumni, employers, and other members of workplace community. For example, invite and prepare alumni, employers and industry partners, as subject matter experts, to participate in career development programs.

· Contribute to the success and sustainability of student-led initiatives.

3. Improve the quantity and quality of digital, online content and support the development and curation of other career related resources.

· Plan, implement, and evaluate initiatives to engage students in the career development process in appropriate and accessible online spaces to increase access, autonomy/agency, and customization for students - newsletters, social networking channels, websites, etc. (This work could include both the development of career content and the curation of relevant external content - podcasts, blogs, articles, videos, interactive learning tools and resources).

· Utilize digital tools to help students explore questions, reflect and integrate across their experiences, and facilitate interactive learning for students, to increase access to experiences that would be typically limited to career coaching, advising and workshops. Propose and implement new ideas.

4. Embed career learning in other forms of experiential learning, Work Integrated Learning, and in high impact learning experiences.

· Promote student participation and engagement in experiential learning opportunities and create opportunities for students to critically reflect on their learning from these experiences, to connect it with and across other learning in their student experience (academic and co-curricular) and to translate it into career learning as they plan for the world of work and future life.

· Lead and contribute to programs and initiatives to develop and implement a variety of career and professional development initiatives. Work in collaboration with multiple stakeholders to set project goals, timelines, scope, processes, manage communication among project participants, identify obstacles, plan and chair meetings, track timelines, evaluate outcomes, etc.

· Foster student leadership and career learning through coaching, advising, training, and professional development support for student clubs, organizations, volunteers, and teams.

· Foster an inclusive and respectful learning environment where all students have the opportunity to thrive professionally, academically, and personally. This includes work with faculty, staff, and students to support distinct populations within the Faculty and to prepare students for success after graduation.

5. Overall Strategic Planning, Administration, Assessment & Evaluation

· Increase capacity across the University for career learning and career conversations, through multiple points of intersection in the student experience.

· Participate in the assessment and evaluation of career learning for students. Collect and record statistical information and feedback, analyze, document and report results, integrate suggestions and improvements into programs and services.

· Contribute to strategic planning processes and the setting of goals and priorities for the work.

· Influence multiple stakeholders to create and set direction, persuade action, and achieve consensus toward collective aspirations and goals as related to career building experiences.

· Assist in marketing and promotion of programs and events to students, alumni, faculty, academic departments, and the workplace community.

· Assist in training of professional staff, student staff and volunteers, including peer leaders and coaches.

· Operate from a place of professional practice in consideration of professional standards including but not limited to CAS (Council for Advancement of Standards in Higher Education), CACEE (Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers), CERIC (Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling), and NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers).

Must accommodate flexible hours - for example: may attend events, deliver workshops or provide training some evenings and weekends.

Undertake other related duties as assigned.

Consequence of Error/Judgement
Responsible for developing, planning and implementing relevant and effective career education programs and resources for students and disseminating accurate information. Ineffective recruitment or career-related advice and support would have a serious negative impact on relationships with UBC students, faculty and departments, employers, and alumni. Dissatisfied prospective and current students and/or alumni may contribute to poor public relations for the University, which in turn would have a negative effect on the University s ability to raise funds and attract and retain outstanding students.

Supervision Received
The incumbent acts independently, often without direct supervision, but within established guidelines. Keeps the Manager, Career and Professional Development informed through informal and formal communication. The incumbent must exercise strategic initiative and sound judgment in making decisions and planning and executing services and programs. Must demonstrate tact and diplomacy with faculty, staff, students, alumni and the public. Works in close cooperation with other career education and student engagement staff within Student Development and Services and within the Faculties.

Supervision Given
May train and supervise support staff, student assistants and volunteers. Assists in training of new professional staff in the UBC Career Centre.

Minimum Qualifications
Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Minimum of three to four years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one's own

Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one's own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

· Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Graduate degree an asset.

· Certified Coach (from verified credentialing body) preferred.

· Certification in StrengthsFinder, or other human capital assessment tools is an asset. Minimum of three to four years of related experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Coaching or advising experience - ideally in a career development context; experience in a post secondary environment.

· Four or more years experience working with faculty, students and staff in a post secondary institution.

· Experience in career education, university/college student affairs, human resources, business or related field.

· Knowledge and understanding of career learning theories, trends and principles, and student engagement best practices required.

· Facilitation or teaching experience.

· Experience in designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating career related content in workshop or group settings.

· Experience using design thinking methodology and facilitation.

· Knowledgeable of career trends in the changing world of work.

· Industry knowledge and expertise; awareness of labor market trends.

· Experience in creating content for online spaces. Experience using web-based platforms and instructional technology to teach and engage students in career development.

· Demonstrated experience providing career support for racialized student populations, students with disabilities, Indigenous students, and/or students who identify as queer, transgender or two spirited is considered an asset.

· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

· Proven ability to coach and advise students one-to-one and in group settings.

· Exceptional presentation and public speaking skills.

· Ability to communicate effectively in an intercultural environment.

· Demonstrated commitment to the principles and values of a diverse and inclusive campus community.

· Demonstrated process design facilitation skills, and familiarity with a wide variety of facilitation approaches and techniques.

· Demonstrated project management skills, with strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders and ability to prioritize work effectively under competing deadlines.

· Demonstrated competence in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs or events.

· Ability to find, synthesize, and translate literature, research material, trends, and best practices for capacity building amongst colleagues and stakeholders.

· Ability to work both independently and within multiple team environments.

· Ability to think strategically and exercise diplomacy, tact, and discretion.

· Demonstrated ability to conduct respectful consultation and collaboration with stakeholders.

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