- Master’s degree and significant (3-5 years) experience in college-level career education, community engagement, experiential education, or a related field
- At least 3 years’ experience directly supervising professional staff
- Experience in program creation, planning, implementation, and assessment
- Experience managing a complex budget encompassing multiple projects and accounts, with funds held in both operating budgets and gift or endowed accounts
- Demonstrated interpersonal relationship-building skills and experience working with a wide range of constituents including employers, grad school reps, community partners, faculty, students, and alumni
- Experience communicating with and supporting people from diverse backgrounds and an expressed commitment to uphold and further Earlham’s Diversity Aspirations Vision Statement and its Principles and Practices
- Clear understanding of and affinity with the purposes and values of a private, residential liberal arts college and a demonstrated ability to work with teaching faculty
- Experience with constituent relations (employers, grad school, CEn partners) and the ability to network and build strategic partnerships
- Experience and comfort with digital tools and technology including social media
- Commitment to high visibility on campus and in the community
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced office
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, particularly in translating the value of the liberal arts into graduate outcomes
- Commitment to and experience fostering long-term, positive, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial relationships with external constituents
Additional Preferred Qualifications: - Professional experience beyond the minimum amounts cited above
- Significant experience in work related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Knowledge of current professional practices and challenges in CEd and CEn programming
- Experience in alumni and/or donor relations
- Knowledge of or experience in liberal-arts settings in higher education
- Familiarity with best practices in risk management for individually arranged internships
- Familiarity with as many of these platforms as possible: Handshake, uConnect, GoinGlobal, Terra Dotta, Big Interview, Give Pulse, PathwayU, Tallo, Trello, Slack, and People Grove
- Familiarity with and certification to administer workshops based on Strengths Finder
- Prior teaching experience and knowledge of current pedagogical approaches to experiential learning, career-discernment education, and/or community engagement
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