University of Kentucky
Career Center Director
🇺🇸 Lexington, KY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $63K - $104K
💻 Other
🗓️ October 24th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Provide strategic leadership and operational management of the Stuckert Career Center.
- Manage staff, budgets, and develop key partnerships to enhance student and alumni career success.
- Coordinate career services programming including fairs and exploration initiatives.
- Build strong relationships with campus departments, employers, and community stakeholders.
- Develop staff through mentorship and training to ensure high-quality service delivery.
- Use assessment and data-informed decision making to improve services and demonstrate impact.
- Required to have strong skills in communication, planning, organization, analysis, collaboration, and leadership.
- Requires a Master’s degree and at least 7 years of related experience.
- Supervisory responsibilities included; position involves occasional evenings and weekends.
- Salary range from $62,941 to $103,834 per year.
Career Center Director Full Description
Requisition Number | RE52068
Working Title | Stuckert Career Center Director
Department Name | 1B210:Career and Academic Support
Work Location | Lexington, KY
Grade Level | 48
Salary Range | $62,941-103,834/year
Type of Position | Staff
Position Time Status | Full-Time
Required Education | MA
Click here for more information about equivalencies: | https://hr.uky.edu/employment/working-uk/equivalencies
Required Related Experience | 7 yrs
Required License/Registration/Certification | None.
Physical Requirements | May require some lifting, pulling objects up to 50 lbs., sitting for long periods of time.
Shift | 40 hours/week. Monday-Friday; 8:00 AM-5:00 PM; and
may require occasional evening and week-end hours.
Job Summary | The Director of the Stuckert Career Center provides strategic leadership and operational oversight, managing staff, budgets, and key partnerships to advance student success. The role emphasizes building strong relationships across campus, employers, and community stakeholders, while ensuring high-quality service delivery to students, alumni, and employers. Key responsibilities include staff development, assessment and reporting, and coordination of career programming such as fairs and exploration initiatives. The position requires strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement skills to balance operational efficiency with student-centered outcomes.
Student Success will, from the time of early college outreach to graduation and beyond, support students in living a life of meaning and purpose. From a student-centered framework, our practice will be grounded in peer-reviewed literature, national best practices, and data-informed decision making. Collaborating with the campus and community, Student Success will work through a holistic lens to support a community of learners in achieving success.
Skills / Knowledge / Abilities | Communication, planning, organization, analysis, collaboration, and leadership.
Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? | Yes
Preferred Education/Experience |
Deadline to Apply | 10/29/2025
Our University Community | We value the well-being of each of our employees and are dedicated to creating a healthy place for everyone to work, learn and live. In the interest of maintaining a safe and healthy environment for our students, employees, patients and visitors, the University of Kentucky is a Tobacco & Drug Free campus.
The University follows both the federal and state Constitutions as well as all applicable federal and state laws on nondiscrimination. The University provides equal opportunities for qualified persons in all aspects of institutional operations and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnic origin, religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, uniformed service, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, genetic information or social or economic status.
Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by University of Kentucky Human Resources. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen.
- * Please describe your approach to leading a student focused career services team. How do you set direction and engage staff?
(Open Ended Question) - * How have you used data or assessment results to improve services or demonstrate impact in your current or past role?
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