The Executive Director is a full-time leadership position in the Division of Student Affairs that holds responsibility for both the full administrative oversight of the Career Center, as well as campus-wide career services leadership and coordination with academic colleges and Alumni Association. The Executive Director reports directly to the Vice President of Student Affairs and serves as a member of the Vice President’s Council responsible for division-wide strategic planning, program development, information sharing, and policy development.
Career Center
The Career Center is divided into three units, Career Education, Employer Relations, and Operations, that serves all students at CSU, houses 42 professional employees and an average of 35 student employees year-round, with a 2.5M dollar operating budget generated through multiple funding sources. The Career Center impacts thousands of students per year and over 700 unique employers across hundreds of initiatives, events, and services. These critical initiatives, events, and services ensure that all CSU students have ready access to professional development, internship, student employment, and full-time job opportunities.
Campus-Wide Career-Services Leadership and Coordination
Leadership responsibilities of the Executive Director span beyond the Career Center across campus. This includes leading the Career Services Network, a collection of faculty and staff engaged in career-services-related work to develop community and coordinate processes, policies, and events. Additionally, the Executive Director regularly liaises with campus administrators, deans and associate deans, faculty, staff, alumni, students, student organizations, parents, and employers to ensure continuing positive relationships and collaborations critical to providing career services for CSU students. The Executive Director serves as a member of the university CORE team of Associate Deans and key campus partners for implementing and charging action teams to realize university student success priorities.
Responsibilities of the Executive Director are accomplished successfully through meaningful and collaborative relationships, visionary leadership, and the ability to effectively communicate, problem-solve, and lead a large and competent staff. The Executive Director promotes and facilitates the Career Center team and the broader career campus team to do career-services-work through a social justice lens, work to creatively integrate career services throughout campus, and promote student academic success and graduation goals while working to close equity achievement gaps.