Careers @ MSU

Position Summary

The Assistant Director will lead the college's alumni career development portfolio, serving graduates in their first five years after commencement. The position provides career advising for early career alumni navigating promotion, pivot, and performance challenges; builds structured connections between alumni, current students, and faculty; develops and teaches a credit or noncredit course in workforce reskilling; and establishes the college's first longitudinal outcomes dataset covering alumni 5 to 10 years post-graduation

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Masters -counseling, higher education, student affairs, human resources, business, social science, or a related field

Minimum Requirements

• Masters degree in counseling, higher education, student affairs, human resources, business, social science, or a related field.
• Three years of professional experience in career development, career coaching, talent acquisition, workforce development, or a closely related area.
• Demonstrated experience advising or coaching working professionals, not students alone. 
• Experience collecting, analyzing, and reporting outcomes data.
• Experience designing and facilitating instruction, training, or professional development programming.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships with external partners. 

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in a college based or embedded career services office.
• Experience with longitudinal or post graduation outcomes research and survey design.
• Classroom teaching experience at the postsecondary level.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and their application to professional work.
• Familiarity with career management platformssuch as Handshake or 12Twenty, and with labor market analytics tools such as O-Net.
• Certification in career development or coaching, including NACE or NCDA credentials  

Required Application Materials

1. Cover Letter 
2. CV
3. Statement of Career Development and Teaching Interests and Experiences
4. Names and contact information for at least three (3) references 

MSU Statement

Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.