Career Development

**Regular/Temporary**
- Regular

**Job Title**
- Career Development & Relationship Manager - STE or CGO Opportunity

**Job ID**
- 67492

**Location**
- HSC- Central Campus

**Open Date**
- 02/14/2025

**Job Type**
- Short Term Employee

**Close Date**
- 02/27/2025

**Employee Group**
- Unifor Unit 1, Staff

**Favorite Job**

**Department**
- Biochemistry

**Salary Grade/Band**
- Grade 9

**Salary Range**
- $29.51 - $45.60 (hourly)

**Contract Duration**
- 8.1 Months

**Hours per Week**
- 35

**Posting Details**

**Schedule**
- Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 4:30 PM (Hybrid)

**Education Level**
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

**Career Level**
- Requires 4 years of relevant experience.

**Unit/Project Description**

Ranked as one of the world’s top 70 universities, McMaster University is renowned for teaching and research excellence. In our teaching, research, and scholarship, we are committed to creativity, innovation, and excellence. We value integrity, quality, inclusiveness, and teamwork in everything we do. We inspire critical thinking, personal growth, and a passion for lifelong learning. We serve the social, cultural, and economic needs of our community and our society.

The Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), within the Faculty of Health Sciences, integrates education, research, and community partnership at the core of our mission. Our faculty, staff, and students are dedicated to excellence, aiming high and supporting each other’s success.

We are seeking a Career Development and Relationship Manager to work within the Masters Biomedical Discovery and Commercializatoin Program (MBDC). This is an** 8-month Contract Position**, with the potential for a **Career Growth Opportunity** for employees who qualify.

The BDC program is a multidisciplinary training program, concentrated in the biomedical sciences that will produce graduates with combined strengths in discovery research and in commerce. The format of the BDC program is a '4+1' Bachelor plus Master’s program. Students in the Master's program are required to complete an internship course. This role will be focused on the delivery of employer development and career supports for BDC students, primarily graduate students. The successful applicant will be responsible for developing relationships with a wide range of industry partners; planning, organizing and coordinating internship placements; as well as supporting and mentoring students with respect to career exploration and development.

**Job Summary**

Responsible for planning, organizing and coordinating career development placements. Promotes student development, success and retention, and encourages career achievement by conducting interviews with students dealing with career choice, educational direction and goal progress.

**Purpose and Key Functions**
- Identify, develop, and cultivate strategic employer relationships in the business community.
- Interview students to assess suitability and make decisions on admittance to the program.
- Interview employer partners to understand recruitment needs.
- Provide individual coaching services and guidance in developing self-marketing and branding tools including, but not limited to, job search strategies, resume critiques, preparation of cover letters and personal statements, interview skills, networking, portfolio development, and negotiation skills.
- Conduct mock interviews by creating specific questions that are relevant to the field of employment students are pursuing, and then provide constructive feedback to students.
- Conduct post-work placement interviews with students to discuss experiences and future goals.
- Write career and skill development materials, and design interview tools.
- Write a variety of documents including, but not limited to, reference letters, correspondence and workshop plans.
- Create, implement and maintain policies and procedures related to the program and career services offered.
- Facilitate or lead career development workshops.
- Coordinate and accompany students on site visits and discuss work objectives.
- Create promotional materials to market program to potential applicants, visitors, and representatives from other institutions at fairs and open house events.
- Plan and coordinate costs, logistics and resources, including catering and audio visual equipment, for career events, information sessions, workshops and speaker presentations.
- Calculate travel expenses for attendance at site visits, seminars, conferences and professional development.
- Track attendance of students using services and compare statistics from previous years.
- Gather, compile, and analyze information identifying labour market data, trends, and job opportunities.
- Review current labour markets and research current trends within professional careers and employment requirements including skill level and comparable salaries offered.
- Request participation and invite employers to post-employment opportunities w