Career Services Coordinator

The Opportunity

Lesley University is seeking a Career Services Coordinator to support our Threshold Program. Reporting to the Executive Director of the Threshold Program, the Coordinator will play a key role in designing and facilitating skill-building workshops that align with students’ evolving needs and progress toward employment readiness. In this position, the Coordinator will deliver skill-building workshops about employment, create detailed internship plans tailored by industry, place students at internship sites, visit internship sites, and oversee student’s development through collaboration with site supervisors.

This role also involves presenting the Threshold internship program to partner organizations, maintaining strong external relationships, meeting regularly with program administrators, attending weekly staff meetings and program-wide events, and providing one-on-one advising to assigned students each semester to support their internship and employment goals. This position is ideal for a student-focused professional with a passion for career development and inclusive education.

Qualities and Capabilities

A successful candidate will have:

Bachelor's degree in vocational rehabilitation, special education, business administration, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred

2+ years of experience working in vocational rehabilitation, integrated employment, case management, or special education

Demonstrated ability to understand individual students’ skills and adapt workshops appropriately

Experience working with adults with special needs

Travel to local employment sites regularly; Ability to work occasional evening and weekend hours if needed

Demonstrated success using digital technology and the internet to achieve program goals

Why Lesley

Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance. In addition, we offer significant paid time off, a generous retirement plan, and tuition programs that enable employees and their dependents to expand their knowledge and skills.

Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence at Lesley. In doing so, Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference. Given an evolving national context and the rapid change in the demographic profile of our country, the University has made a significant commitment to addressing and enhancing its campus climate and diversity capabilities as an institution.

Expressing Interest

A letter of interest, CV/resume, and a statement addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching, professional activity, and/or service must be included for full consideration.

At Lesley University we strive for a supportive and equitable environment where people -- regardless of race, ethnicity, color, sex, physical ability, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, veteran or military status, membership in uniformed services, and all other categories protected by applicable state and federal laws -- can participate equally and fully as their true selves in all aspects of university life. Accordingly, the University prohibits discrimination based on these protected categories in any education program or activity that it operates, including in admission and in employment. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the fabric of our institution. Individuals may submit concerns or questions related to discrimination to the University's Director of Equal Opportunity. Please visit the Office of Equal Opportunity's webpage for the University's entire notice of nondiscrimination and for additional information.

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