Associate Director of Judicial Clerkships and Advising

About The Department

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America's great cities, UChicago Law offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind.

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America's great cities, UChicago Law offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind.

The University of Chicago Law School seeks an Associate Director of Judicial Clerkships and Advising to join its team of professionals, providing a comprehensive range of career services to students and alumni of the University of Chicago Law School, with emphasis on advising and judicial clerkships. This position reports to the Director of Judicial Clerkships.

• Supports the Director in managing the Law School’s judicial clerkship and internship programs, including strategic planning, program development, and collaboration with judges, faculty, staff, alumni, students, and others.
• Plans and delivers a wide range of career counseling, individual coaching and advising, outreach, programming, and support for students and alumni applying for judicial clerkships and judicial internships of all types.
• Tracks and analyzes data and supports reporting on judicial clerkship applications, interviews, hiring, and experiences.
• Partners with the Director to prepare agendas, materials, and reports for the Faculty Clerkship Committee and for other requests for data that arise.
• Creates and updates judicial resources and communications across platforms, including the Job Search Guide, clerkship web pages of the Law School website, and Symplicity.
• Develops alumni and other job contacts for students and conducts environmental scanning to identify market trends and job possibilities for students and alumni.
• Pursues involvement and education through NALP, including membership in the Judicial Clerkship Section, and represents the Office of Career Services to internal and external audiences.
• Contributes to the work and goals of the Office of Career Services generally, including providing career counseling and advising, coaching, and programming services for JD and LLM students.
• Maintains records to assist the Career Services team in providing comprehensive services to students and alumni and in fulfilling internal and external reporting obligations.
• Conducts job search and career management related large lectures, hands‑on workshops, special events, training programs, and one‑on‑one career coaching sessions. Acts as a resource for and directs students to other career resources as needed.
• Analyzes markets and trends as they relate to job searches. Assesses student feedback and evaluations and collaborates with other career services staff members, student organizations, or other staff to determine program offerings and innovations.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.