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Michigan State University
Specialist - Curriculum Dev-Continuing (College of Social Science, alumni career development)
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East Lansing, Michigan
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Full-Time
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TBD
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Career Services
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November 13th, 2026
Curriculum
Handshake
Alumni
Edtech.com's Summary
Michigan State University is hiring a Specialist - Curriculum Dev-Continuing (College of Social Science, alumni career development). The role leads the college’s alumni career development program for graduates in their first five years after commencement, offering career advising and connecting alumni with current students and faculty. It also develops and teaches a workforce reskilling course and builds the college’s first dataset tracking alumni outcomes five to ten years after graduation.
Highlights
- Provide career advising to early career alumni working through promotion, career pivot, and performance challenges.
- Build structured connections among alumni, current students, and faculty within the College of Social Science.
- Develop and teach a credit or noncredit course in workforce reskilling.
- Establish the college’s first longitudinal outcomes dataset covering alumni five to ten years after graduation.
- Hold a master’s degree in counseling, higher education, student affairs, human resources, business, social science, or a related field.
- Bring three years of professional experience in career development, career coaching, talent acquisition, or workforce development, including advising working professionals rather than students alone.
- Show experience collecting, analyzing, and reporting outcomes data, designing and facilitating training programs, and sustaining relationships with external partners.
- Preferred: college-based career services experience, postsecondary teaching, survey design, familiarity with Handshake, 12Twenty, or O-Net, and NACE or NCDA certification.
- Full-time (90-100%) continuing academic staff position in East Lansing, Michigan, with salary commensurate with experience.
Specialist - Curriculum Dev-Continuing (College of Social Science, alumni career development) Full Description
Position Summary
The Assistant Director will lead the college’s alumni career development portfolio, serving graduates in their first five years after commencement. The position provides career advising for early career alumni navigating promotion, pivot, and performance challenges; builds structured connections between alumni, current students, and faculty; develops and teaches a credit or noncredit course in workforce reskilling; and establishes the college’s first longitudinal outcomes dataset covering alumni 5 to 10 years post-graduation
Required Degree
Masters -counseling, higher education, student affairs, human resources, business, social science, or a related field
Minimum Requirements
- Masters degree in counseling, higher education, student affairs, human resources, business, social science, or a related field.
- Three years of professional experience in career development, career coaching, talent acquisition, workforce development, or a closely related area.
- Demonstrated experience advising or coaching working professionals, not students alone.
- Experience collecting, analyzing, and reporting outcomes data.
- Experience designing and facilitating instruction, training, or professional development programming.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships with external partners.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a college based or embedded career services office.
- Experience with longitudinal or post graduation outcomes research and survey design.
- Classroom teaching experience at the postsecondary level.
- Working knowledge of AI tools and their application to professional work.
- Familiarity with career management platforms such as Handshake or 12Twenty, and with labor market analytics tools such as O-Net.
- Certification in career development or coaching, including NACE or NCDA credentials
Required Application Materials
- Cover Letter
- CV
- Statement of Career Development and Teaching Interests and Experiences
- Names and contact information for at least three (3) references
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
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