Manager, Career Coaching

**Position Purpose and Summary**
Serving within the Centre for Calling & Career Development (CCCD), the Manager, Career Coaching works with students to ensure that every graduate is life and career ready. Reporting to the Director of the Centre for Calling & Career Development (CCCD), the Career Coach Manager is a key member of the CCCD team as they develop and deliver presentations to groups of students, create and manage programming and curriculum that facilitates career development, provide individual career coaching to students and recent alumni of Trinity Western University and execute core services of the Center for Calling & Career Development. (CCCD.)

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Key Areas of Accountability*
- Creates and presents career education curriculum inside and outside of the classroom, with a particular focus on reaching students in a matter that reflects the global diversity of TWU.
- Builds strong partnerships with faculty and other campus offices to facilitate student engagement in career development and functions as a thought leader to help build a wider culture of vocational stewardship at Trinity Western.
- Facilitate and conduct one-on-one career coaching sessions with students and recent alumni.
- Thinks creatively about how to increase interactions with students and track that engagement to measure effectiveness of effort.
- Spearheads the planning and execution of career education programming as part of the CCCD’s efforts to reach all students.
- Stays informed about key employers and trends in industries applicable to students for which coach is responsible.
- In partnership with TWU Alumni builds and maintains a diverse network of Trinity Western alumni to serve as resources to students and CCCD team.
- Participates in larger Career Education initiatives including engagement with the CCCD Ambassador team to provide supervision to these students, lead Career Communities, and provide training to equip them for their role.
- Maintain active role in professional associations to remain current with employer/college trends and establish/maintain relationships with recruiters.
- This job description is intended to represent key areas of responsibilities; specific assignments may vary from time to time, and other duties may be assigned.

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The Person*
**Skills and Abilities**
- Adaptability in a dynamic and growing environment.
- Experience working with university-age students; experience developing programs for ethnically diverse students, First Generation students, and other underserved student populations.
- Team player with excellent written and oral communication, organizational, and presentation skills who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, student-focused environment. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, be creative, and self-motivate.

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Personal*
Driven and inspired by the idea of positively impacting the various marketplaces of life through the development of godly Christian leaders by serving the Trinity Western University community.
A dedicated and mature evangelical Christian with an earnest desire to serve in family, church, work, and community. Affirm and support TWU’s mission, values, Statement of Faith, and Community Covenant. Strength of character and reputation, integrity, focused. A winsome personality with a positive and friendly attitude.
**Servant-Leader Way of Life**: Act in a manner that exemplifies Jesus Christ in all on and off-campus contacts thereby living out the servant leadership mission of the university and contributing effectively towards achieving the institutional and Kingdom goals of the organization.

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Key Internal Interactions*
**Reports**:Student Employees
**Reports to**:Director of the Center for Calling & Career Development

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Standards & Requirements*
**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree required; liberal arts preferred.
- Certified Leadership/Career/Life Coach desired.

**Experience**:

- Minimum of two years’ experience in the marketplace.
- Duties and responsibilities that do not constitute a major change may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of the supervisor either orally or in writing._

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Benefits of Working at TWU: *
- A comprehensive benefits package which includes extended health, dental, and insurance and an RRSP matching program.
- Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
- Tuition Benefit for TWU undergraduate and graduate level courses to enhance knowledge and professional competency.
- Torch tuition scholarship for dependents of eligible employees attending TWU.
- Free access to TWU’s fitness/gym facilities and the Norma Marion Alloway Library.
- Discounts and perks for the on-site Trinity Western Outfitters bookstore and cafeterias, as well as shops and restaurants in Fort Langley.
- Wellness benefits (i.e., counselling, sick days, personal days, and reimbursement for annual wellness/recreation related purchases).
- Free recreational equipment rentals (e.