Advise and assist students in laying the educational, social, and vocational foundations to choose and succeed in career paths after graduation. Evaluate student interests and aptitudes to guide them in course and program selection. Encourage students to explore learning opportunities, develop new skills, and identify new interests and aptitudes. Provide career counseling for students, alumni and community constituents, and facilitate the development of professional skills, including business networking, professional development, and entrepreneurship. Conduct class presentations, workshops, and information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning. Address community stakeholders, making them aware of CIU's career services, and identify opportunities to enhance student and alumni education and career readiness, such as identifying potential mentors for students, partners for job placement, and other resources for students. Collaborate with faculty and education administrators to plan or revise school programs to enhance student career awareness, career readiness, and entrepreneurship. Administer the Business & Career Development Center (BCDC), ensuring its operations and offerings are in accordance with CIU administrative parameters, and serving students, alumni, and the community. Manage a team of part-time student workers and graduate assistants to both staff the BCDC, and to provide them with practical training and career preparation. Prepare, maintain, and present reports and records in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, CIU policies, and as may be requested by CIU administration. Plan and coordinate outreach, recruitment, and retention activities for incubator/accelerator programs to connect students with programming partners for future employment opportunities following graduation. Sponsor and attend events to support students' engagement and career development in the startup community, such as coordinating invitations and logistics for BCDC events, programs, and services.
Education and Experience:
Requirements Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in marketing, business, or related field; plus 60 months of experience in job offered or in a position involving entrepreneurship and management of business startups. Experience must include 60 months of management and supervision, program creation, and project experience with an innovation center, incubator, startup, NGO, or entrepreneurship program. Requires demonstrated experience in: Career counseling and mentoring of students, alumni, and community constituents in a university setting; Development and startup of university Business Development programs; Leadership/steering committee experience for incubator programs; Developing diverse partnerships with both international and community constituents; Engaging corporate volunteers as part of social responsibility programs; Startup scaling, fundraising, and project management; and Ability to communicate and effectively coach a broad range of constituents of varying levels of sophistication, ranging from new students to established professional alumni. Must be able and willing to abide by CIU core values and mission as a Christian institution, and requires agreement to CIU's Biblical Standards and Doctrinal Statement. Please copy and paste your resume in the email body (do not send attachments; we cannot open them) and email it to candidates at with job reference in the subject line. Thank you.
