Associate Director of Career Strategy

🇺🇸 Villanova, PA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $64K - $80K

💻 Academic Advising

🗓️ July 29th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Villanova University is hiring an Associate Director of Career Strategy. This role supports the Assistant Dean of Career Strategy and Advancement in delivering comprehensive career services to law school students and alumni, providing individualized career advising, developing career-related programming, and coordinating employer outreach to enhance employment outcomes.

Highlights

Provide instruction, orientation, and individualized advising to law students and alumni on career and professional development.
Plan and facilitate career programming, including guidance on private practice, public interest, government, and judicial clerkship paths.
Create career guidance materials like resource guides and handbooks for students.
Engage with the legal employment community and participate in employer outreach and recruitment events.
Assist in improving employment outcomes and represent the law school at bar association events and conferences.
Bachelor's degree required; JD preferred (legal recruiting or career coaching experience may substitute).
2-3 years of professional legal experience or legal recruiting experience required.
Knowledge of legal career planning, counseling, mentoring, networking, and marketing skills necessary.
Preferred experience includes attorney recruitment, counseling, marketing, and use of 12Twenty software and Excel.
Salary range is $64,000-80,000, exempt, with a full-time, 12-month schedule and occasional evening and travel requirements.