Career Services Director jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Who Are We: Carrington College helps students achieve success by providing them with "hands-on" training that uses the technologies and processes that are used in the field, allowing them to build their confidence while they "learn by doing". Our focus is to help change the lives of our students for the better through education. That's more than our purpose; it's our promise to you and our students!

What we're looking for: Director of Career Services position at our Phoenix Campus.

Summary: In relation to contributing to Carrington's mission and goals, Director of Career Services works with autonomy, responsibility, and authority to provide leadership in the areas of Placement, Externship, and Career Services Seminars to meet or exceed placement goals. This requires knowledge and understanding of the career services process, the ability to proactively identify problems and seek solutions, highly refined critical thinking skills and the ability to distinguish between facts and inferences. The Regional Career Services Director directs activity by obtaining, analyzing and applying data utilizing various resources including our activity-based management system.

What We Offer: Flexible schedules, a variety of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, leadership opportunities, and professional development, and you teach the future professionals of the communities we live in.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience - BA/BS degree. 5 or more years experience in career services, sales, professional recruiting or other similar roles. Proven ability to set priorities and deadlines to ensure projects are completed and goals are achieved. Self-motivated and willing to take ownership of, and quickly resolve complex issues. Communicates with impact, both verbally and written, in an accurate, understandable and succinct manner while adapting communication styles to their audience. Proactively solves problems through asking questions, listening to responses, verifying information, considering alternate conclusions and staying solution-focused