About Bellarmine University:

Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.

SmartAsset ranked Louisville among the top 25 U.S. cities for best work-life balance, while workplace insights platform kununu.com named Louisville one of the top five U.S. cities for happy employees. Glassdoor recently recognized Louisville as one of the top 15 cities for jobs, based on hiring opportunity, cost of living and job satisfaction. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 10 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.

Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.

Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.

Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.

Job Description:

The Career Development Center has an immediate opening for a Career Advisor. This position is a full-time, 12-month, exempt position, with the opportunity to work a HyFlex schedule during summer months. Given the nature of the position, some occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

The Career Advisor will work with a dynamic, data-driven team to support the full scope of work related to career education and advising. This position is vital to expanding and enhancing the career development support and resources available to assist students in the pursuit of meaningful work and the continuation of successful first destination outcomes, with 99% of graduates working or continuing education within six months of commencement.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The Career Advisor's major responsibilities will be to provide career advising, outreach and presentations in classrooms, event coordination, and communication with employers. Additional responsibilities include:
• Build rapport with students and alumni while providing career advising to undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni
• Facilitate student, faculty, staff, and alumni communication with graduate schools, employers, community organizations, and representatives of professional associations
• Work collaboratively to expand career advising capacity along with undergraduate student advisors and graduate student advisors
• Demonstrate excellent public speaking and presentation skills while providing career development presentations to classes and student groups; manage outreach presentation requests
• Provide leadership in planning and executing career education programming, such as mock interviews, networking dinners, and alumni/employer panels
• Supervise and develop Career Development Center student staff members as needed in alignment with NACE Career Readiness Competencies
• Implement appropriate information resources, systems, and technologies to manage contacts and opportunities effectively and efficiently, schedule activities and events, track progress and outcomes, and communicate with internal and external individuals and groups
• Provide inclusive support for diverse student populations, including pre-professional programs, learning communities, honors students, student-athletes, international students, students with disabilities, commuter students, veteran students, first generation students, students of color, and LGBTQ+ students
• Teach BU199: Major and Career Exploration and BU299: Internship Preparation and Success courses as needed with additional compensation (master's degree required)
• Attend key Bellarmine programs and events, including Week of Welcome (orientation) and Commencement
• Complete all other duties as assigned to support the mission of the Career Development Center, Division of Student Affairs, and Bellarmine University

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree required; master's degree in student affairs, counseling, or other related field preferred
One to two years of experience in the area of career advising, counseling, or student affairs required; one to two years of experience with event planning, presenting/public speaking, working with diverse populations and customer service preferred
Familiarity with career assessments such as PathwayU and the Strong Interest Inventory required

Candidates must also demonstrate the following NACE Career Readiness Competencies:

1. Critical Thinking: generate new ideas and innovative approaches to advance the mission and vision of the Career Development Center; bring a solution-orientation approach to proactively address problems that may arise
2. Communication: demonstrate professional writing, targeted writing for your audience, and excel in public speaking and conducting workshops
3. Teamwork: work well with others from diverse functional areas and backgrounds and look for opportunities to build and expand partnerships across campus and in the community
4. Equity & Inclusion: advocate for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities; solicit and use feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions
5. Technology: able to learn and implement technology platforms, such as Handshake, PathwayU, Big Interview, and Moodle; seek ways that technology can advance the reach of the Career Development Center
6. Leadership: leverage and build upon the strengths of the team to improve career education and advising; apply interpersonal skills to coach and develop student staff
7. Professionalism: model the highest levels of professionalism and work ethic within the Career Development Center, Student Affairs Division, campus, and the broader community; demonstrate personal accountability, effective work habits, and learn from mistakes
8. Career & Self-Development- articulates personal skills, strengths, and knowledge and advocates for strengths-based opportunities for growth. Seeks professional development and continuous learning to advance toward career goals

Additional Information:

The mission of the Bellarmine University Career Development Center is to empower career-ready students and alumni to successfully live, work, lead, and serve in the global community and our vision is to create a career ecosystem across campus that provides pathways to meaningful work for all students and alumni.

Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.

Application Instructions:

Please submit a cover letter to Jackie McNatt, Director of Career Development, along with a resume and contact information for three professional references by clicking on the appropriate link in this posting. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.