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Arizona College of Nursing is hiring a Career Services Specialist. This role involves verifying employment outcomes, maintaining accurate graduate placement data, and developing relationships with healthcare employers to connect graduates with career opportunities. The specialist proactively supports graduates through follow-ups and resources, ensuring high job placement rates and contributing to the college's employer network.

Highlights

Verify job placements to achieve a verified job placement rate of 90% or higher for BSN graduates.
Maintain employment data in line with college and accreditation standards.
Support graduates with job leads, placement assistance, and overcoming vocational challenges.
Develop and maintain relationships with healthcare employers and community partners.
Report graduate placement statistics to campus administration.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent skills and experience required.
Minimum 2 years experience in registrar, career services, or related post-secondary roles; 1+ year in career services preferred.
Preferred skills include inside sales and business development with 3-5 years successful sales support experience.
Excellent communication skills required for interactions with students, faculty, staff, and employers.
Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects effectively.

Career Services Specialist Full Description

Why You Should Work With Us::

Please note that this position requires availability during Pacific Time Zone hours. The schedule is Monday through Friday, with flexibility to work between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM Pacific Time for an 8-hour shift.

Arizona College of Nursing is seeking a Career Services Specialist who is passionate about supporting graduate career success. In this role, you will verify employment outcomes, maintain accurate placement data, and build relationships with healthcare employers to help connect our graduates with career opportunities. The ideal candidate enjoys working with people, building partnerships in the healthcare community, and playing a meaningful role in helping new nurses launch their careers. If you’re excited about helping graduates launch their careers and building strong employer partnerships, we encourage you to apply. We’d love to speak with you!

Arizona College of Nursing is a rapidly growing, nursing school that transforms people’s lives by preparing them for careers in nursing and improving communities through the care its graduates provide. As a leading nurse educator, Arizona College of Nursing offers students the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s in nursing in 3 years or less with qualified transfer credits. Our quality nursing curriculum prepares students for an in-demand career to help communities overcome the chronic, well-known, and increasing nursing shortage. Through the execution of a targeted growth strategy, the college plans to meet the growing demand for nurses by launching campuses in markets where bachelor’s prepared nurses are needed.

Putting students first, we are dedicated to providing students with an exceptional education in growing healthcare fields; teaching them relevant, required skills for today and the future. Our culture is positive, supportive, and collaborative. As a team, we continually embrace our core values:

Passion: We love helping others succeed.
Excellence: We strive to be the best.
Adaptability: We learn, in part by trying new ideas.
Accountability: We own our results.
Integrity: We do the right thing.

What You'll Do:

The Career Services Specialist verifies job placements and ensures accurate job placements rates for the graduates of Arizona College of Nursing and its affiliated schools (the “College”). This is achieved by adhering to the policies and procedures put forth by the College and the Manager of Career Services and through building relationships with prospective employers for the College’s graduates.

Essential Responsibilities:

Verify employment through established policies and procedures to achieve a verified job placement rate of 90% or greater for BSN program graduates each reporting period.
Collect and record graduate employment information and maintain information in accordance with College and accreditation standards.
Proactively contact graduates and respond to graduates regarding job leads, job placement assistance, and general post-enrollment follow-up regarding Career Services.
Provide resources to graduates to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational obstacles.
Report graduate placement rates and verification status to campuses.
Develop new partners in the medical community through networking and outreach activities, including hosting campus events.
Maintain current knowledge of job placement opportunities with local employers and provide key employer contacts with information about the College and opportunities to visit the campus.

Other duties as assigned. What We Need From You::

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent skills and experience required.
2+ years’ experience in registrar, career services, or related department for a post-secondary institution.
At least one (1) year experience providing career services or employment assistance required, three (3) years preferred.
Inside sales and/or sales support skills preferred-- ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of successful demonstration of business development and/or sales competencies.
Excellent communication skills required to effectively communicate general information to students, faculty, staff, externship preceptors and other stakeholders.
Results-oriented and able to manage various projects or numerous tasks at one time.

Original Job Description

Why You Should Work With Us::

What You'll Do:

Verify employment through established policies and procedures to achieve a verified job placement rate of 90% or greater for BSN program graduates each reporting period.
Collect and record graduate employment information and maintain information in accordance with College and accreditation standards.
Proactively contact graduates and respond to graduates regarding job leads, job placement assistance, and general post-enrollment follow-up regarding Career Services.
Provide resources to graduates to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational obstacles.
Report graduate placement rates and verification status to campuses.
Develop new partners in the medical community through networking and outreach activities, including hosting campus events.
Maintain current knowledge of job placement opportunities with local employers and provide key employer contacts with information about the College and opportunities to visit the campus.

Other duties as assigned. What We Need From You::

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent skills and experience required.
2+ years’ experience in registrar, career services, or related department for a post-secondary institution.
At least one (1) year experience providing career services or employment assistance required, three (3) years preferred.
Inside sales and/or sales support skills preferred-- ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of successful demonstration of business development and/or sales competencies.
Excellent communication skills required to effectively communicate general information to students, faculty, staff, externship preceptors and other stakeholders.
Results-oriented and able to manage various projects or numerous tasks at one time.

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