Graduate Student Coord III

Position Details

This is a 0.75 FTE position, generally equivalent to 30 hours per week. Some early morning, evening, or weekend work may be required for programs, recruiting events, and other College activities.

Full Time

Graduate Student Coordinator III

Law Career Counselor

$75,000 - $80,000

Salt Lake City, UT

The S.J. Quinney College of Law is a top-ranked public law school with a national reputation for academic excellence, student success, and strong employment and bar-passage outcomes. The College of Law seeks a motivated and student-centered Career Coach to help JD students identify and pursue meaningful employment opportunities and successfully transition into the legal profession.

Working within the Career Development Office ( CDO ), the Career Coach will provide individualized career advising, job-search support, and professional development programming tailored to the legal employment market. The position will advise students across all three years of law school, with particular responsibility for helping graduating students and recent graduates secure post-graduate employment.

• Individual Career Advising:
  Maintain an assigned student caseload and provide individualized advising on career goals, practice-area interests, employment options, and job-search strategy.
• Employment Planning:
  Help students develop and carry out individualized employment plans, including appropriate timelines, target employers, networking strategies, and follow-up activities.
• Application Materials:
  Review and provide substantive feedback on legal resumes, cover letters, writing samples, professional biographies, and other employment materials.
• Interview Preparation:
  Conduct mock interviews and prepare students for screening interviews, callback interviews, judicial interviews, and other legal hiring processes.
• Legal Career Guidance:
  Advise students on employment pathways in private practice, government, public interest organizations, judicial clerkships, business, compliance, and other JD-advantage settings.
• Recruitment and Job-Search Support:
  Help students navigate on-campus interviewing, employer recruitment programs, job fairs, direct applications, networking-based searches, and other hiring processes.
• Experiential Opportunities:
  Assist students in identifying summer employment, internships, judicial externships, public interest opportunities, and other experiences that strengthen their qualifications for post-graduate employment.
• Graduating Student and Graduate Support:
  Provide intensive outreach and job-search assistance to graduating students and recent graduates who are seeking employment, including support during the period following graduation and the bar examination.
• Career Programming:
  Develop and deliver workshops, panels, and other programs addressing legal employment markets, recruitment timelines, networking, interviewing, professional identity, and career readiness.
• Employer and Alumni Engagement:
  Build and maintain relationships with legal employers, alumni, faculty, and other professional contacts to identify employment opportunities, strengthen referral networks, and connect students with relevant practitioners.
• Employment Outcomes:
  Contribute to the College’s employment-outcomes strategy by monitoring student progress, identifying students who need additional support, and recommending targeted interventions.
• Data and Reporting:
  Maintain timely and accurate advising records in 12
  
  Twenty or other Career Development Office systems and assist with the collection, verification, and reporting of graduate employment data required by the ABA , NALP , and the University.
• Collaboration and Outreach:
  Collaborate with Career Development…