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Associate Director Neeley Alcon Career Center

🇺🇸 Fort Worth, TX

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Operations

🗓️ August 5th, 2025

CRM

Edtech.com's Summary

Texas Christian University is hiring an Associate Director Neeley Alcon Career Center. This role provides career consultation, develops programming, and offers resources for undergraduate business students to enhance their career and professional development, managing specific student caseloads and collaborating with faculty and employer partners to prepare students for the workforce.

Highlights

  • Provide individual career coaching and conduct small group seminars for targeted undergraduate student populations.
  • Develop and implement career programming strategies involving industry professionals and alumni.
  • Advise students on internship/job opportunities, recruitment trends, and job-search techniques.
  • Assess program effectiveness through surveys and feedback tools.
  • Recruit, hire, and train student workers for the career center.
  • Review students' recruiting documents and assist in job search strategies.
  • Maintain employer relationships and liaise with academic and professional development departments.
  • Use Microsoft Office, online recruiting systems, database, and CRM applications.
  • Required qualifications include a Master’s degree and at least 4 years of experience in corporate recruiting or career services.
  • Supports marketing efforts and collects post-graduation employment data with up to 10% travel.

Associate Director Neeley Alcon Career Center Full Description

Job Summary:
The Associate Director in the Neeley Alcon Career Center is responsible for providing career consultation, programming, and resources for Neeley undergraduate business students to support students’ career and professional development. Each Associate Director supports a unique caseload based on specific BBA majors and/or industries (e.g. Consulting, Investment Banking, Technology) and/or particular student populations (e.g. international students). This position collaborates with Neeley faculty and staff, career services professionals, and employer partners to ensure Neeley’s undergraduate students are career ready.
 
Duties & Essential Job Functions:
1. Provides career consultation to a specific caseload of Neeley undergraduate business students in their career search through individual career coaching and small group seminars. Analyzes national trends and services and adapts accordingly to increase student professional development.
2. Develops career programming strategy to create new opportunities for industry professionals and alumni to integrate into career programming and curriculum.
3. Provides information to students on career-related topics such as internship and job opportunities, employer and recruiting trends, utilization of job-search tools, interview preparation, offer evaluation, salary negotiation, and other relevant career development subjects.
4. Develops surveys and assessment tools for pre/post career programming to determine effectiveness.
5. Assists in recruiting, hiring, and training Neeley Alcon Center student workers 
6. Performs detailed review of students’ recruiting documents (e.g. resumes, cover letters, and other application materials) and assists in creating individual job search strategies.
7. Assists with maintaining employer relationships. 
8. Serves as potential liaison to business student organizations, Neeley Academic Advising and/ Neeley’s Professional Development Center.
9. Works closely with the TCU Career Center, Neeley Graduate Career Center, and other campus departments to collaborate and create effective programming and resources for Neeley students.
10. Assumes shared responsibility for assessing and updating website content. Supports marketing and resource creation efforts for Alcon Career Center. 
11. Assists career programs to enhance professional development and career readiness. 
12. Supports office’s efforts in collecting post-graduation job and internship outcome information. Makes strategic recommendations based on identified trends. 
13. Teaches a Careers in Business course or Business Internship class for undergraduate Business students as needed. 
14. Performs other related duties as assigned.
 
Required Education & Experience:
• Master’s Degree
• 4 years in corporate recruiting, career services field or equivalent.
 
Preferred Education & Experience:
• 5 years in corporate recruiting, career services field or equivalent.
 
Required Licensure/Certification/Specialized Training:
• None
 
Preferred Licensure, Certification, and/or Specialized Training:
• None
 
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Knowledge of corporate recruiting, resume writing and interviewing techniques.
• Knowledge of online recruiting systems, web-based applications, database and CRM systems.
• Skill in the use of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Skill in the attention to detail, organizational and project management techniques.
• Skill in oral and written communication and organizational techniques.
• Ability to facilitate problem resolution, foster confidence and trust, work independently as a team member and manage confidential information and sensitive situations.
• Ability to maintain accurate files and records.
• Ability to prepare reports in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ability to thrive in a high pressure, fast-paced team environment with frequent interruptions where multi-tasking is the norm and to establish policies and procedures is essential.
• Strong ability to priorities competing time-sensitive tasks.
• Ability to establish rapport with students, alumni, parents, faculty, employers, and staff.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the job (local, national, and international)
 
TCU Core Competencies:
University Core Competencies definitions may be found on the Human Resources website and in the staff performance management system.
 
Physical Requirements (With or Without Accommodations):
• Visual acuity to read information from computer screens, forms and other printed materials and information.
• Able to speak (enunciate) clearly in conversation and general communication. 
• Hearing ability for verbal communication/conversation/responses via telephone, telephone systems, and face-to-face interactions.
• Manual dexterity for typing, writing, standing and reaching, flexibility, body movement for bending, crouching, walking, kneeling and prolonged sitting.
• Lifting and moving objects and equipment up to 10 lbs.
 
Work Environment:
• This position is an on-campus, 100% in-person role. 
• Work is indoors and sedentary and is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours and 10% travel.
• There are no harmful environmental conditions present for this job.
• The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate.
 
AA/EEO Statement:
As an AA/EEO employer, TCU recruits, hires, and promotes qualified persons in all job classifications without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnic origin, disability, genetic information, covered veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.