Executive Director, Professionals Career Management

Grade 15

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary:
  Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard
  
  Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $155,000 - $175,000

Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean of the Career Management Center, the Executive Director, Working Professionals Career Management, serves as a senior member of the Career Management Center (CMC) leadership team, providing strategic direction and programmatic oversight for career management offerings for working professionals and alumni. The Executive Director leads the development of career education, professional development programs, and online learning initiatives tailored to experienced professionals, including Executive MBA (EMBA) students, navigating internal mobility and external career transitions.

The Executive Director also partners with the Career Education and Advising team, incorporating the Columbia Industry Coaches in various efforts, and manages select strategic projects and thought‑leadership initiatives. On an ongoing basis, they advise students and alumni on various aspects of the job search process, internal career mobility, professional development, and manage select strategic projects and thought‑leadership initiatives. Student and recruiter contact is an integral part of the position, requiring a high degree of executive presence, deep knowledge of business environments and talent markets, and the ability to build and sustain relationships across a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Provides strategic leadership for the working professionals team, setting direction, establishing key metrics, and ensuring alignment with CMC vision, School priorities, and market needs.
• Serves as a member of the CMC senior leadership team, contributing to School‑wide strategic planning and decision‑making.
• Supervises a team of staff supporting working professionals; may also supervise staff on select cross‑functional projects.
• Partners with the Strategic Partnerships Teams to establish employer and alumni engagement plans and ensures ongoing communication and alignment with key school partners.

• Conceptualizes professional development and lifelong learning offerings for alumni. Designs career education seminars and workshops for working and experienced professionals. Manages the development of online content related to these topics.
• Advises graduate business students and alumni, both one‑on‑one and in groups, on various aspects of the career mobility process, including movement within a professional’s current organization as well as external job changes. In particular focuses on best practices for career self‑assessment and research, effective self‑marketing including pitch and resume development, networking strategy, interviewing skills, job offer management, and socially intelligent behaviors around making career transitions, as well as the international job search.
• Advises graduate business students and alumni on professional development and career leadership issues such as navigating workplace politics and managing work relationships, effective stakeholder management, negotiating salary and performance reviews, executive presence & communicating with impact, dealing proactively with change in the workplace, and other topics related to key success factors at work.

• Collaborates with the Executive Director of Operations to identify and define advising, employment, and market data needs.
• Leverages data and market intelligence to inform curriculum development and strategic planning.

• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders (including and not limited to public, private and nonprofit hiring organizations, Dean’s Office, Development and Alumni Relations, Faculty, Office of Student Affairs, Admissions, Marketing and Communications, Operations, and student leadership) to support a variety of initiatives including career related programming and projects as well as School related events and outreach.
• Partners with Strategic Partnerships team to enhance international,…