Career Services Coordinator, College of Fine Arts

About this role

Job Posting Title: Career Services Coordinator, College of Fine Arts ---- Hiring Department: College of Fine Arts ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA ---- Earliest Start Date: Immediately ---- Position Duration: Expected to Continue ---- Location: UT MAIN CAMPUS ---- Job Details: General Notes The College of Fine Arts is the college of creativity at The University of Texas at Austin—a home for artists, performers, designers, scholars, educators, makers and creatives ready to change the world.

Benefits package: • 100% employer-paid basic medical coverage

• Retirement contributions

• Paid vacation and sick time 

• Paid holidays 

• Other services and perks .

This job description may not contain all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described. Even if you don't qualify or have specific experience in every facet of this role, we encourage you to apply.

Purpose To support student success by providing individualized career coaching — helping students explore career pathways, prepare for employment, and develop job search skills — while also coordinating student development programs that build engagement, partnerships, and measurable outcomes across campus.

Responsibilities • Career Coaching: Advise fine arts students, including undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni of COFA, on career-related queries, including defining career goals; developing career plans; internship assistance; resume and cover letter critiques; conducting mock interviews and connecting student's with on and off campus resources.

• Programming and Content:  Assist in designing, coordinating, and implementing in-house professional development opportunities for students in the form of workshops, services, events, and programs; enrich all offerings by crafting relevant promotional and educational content. Examples include resume workshops and in-classroom visits about career-specific topics. Support daily Career Services operations by maintaining resources, documenting procedures, tracking participation, and assisting in office initiatives.

• Fostering Career Ecosystem: Build and maintain relationships with internal and community stakeholders. This includes collaboration with the College of Fine Arts staff and faculty, community leaders and creative industry professional. Must also be able to provide timely and effective communication across multiple teams and functional areas.

• Logistical and Communication Support: Support event logistics such as scheduling, room reservation, catering and speaker coordination, registration, set-up, day-of support and follow-up. Additionally, manage communications on main career services email, triage inquires, proactively and independently research solutions. 

• Data Tracking: Assist the Senior Career Coordinator in collecting and interpreting data about student outcomes, program attendance, and satisfaction. This includes the use of Qualtrics (survey software) and 12Twenty (career services platform for student appointments and event attendance). Assists in assembling data for the First Destinations survey, a survey of recent graduates about their employment after graduation.

• Student Funding Committees: Serve on award committees to review applications for student funding opportunities, including the Internship Scholarship fund, and Professional Development Travel fund.

• Student Employee Supervision: Assist with the training and supervision of student employee as needed, including assigning and monitoring the completion of tasks, and providing feedback.

• Other Duties as Assigned

Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

• At least 3 years of experience in career services, higher education, student affairs, recruiting, advising, event planning, communications, program / project coordination, or a related field

• Experience planning and coordinating events, workshops, or programs

• Demonstrated experience working with students in a higher education environment

• Intermediate to advanced working experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams)

• Required Competencies: Initiative, Service Excellence, Effective Communications, Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork, Growth and Development Mindset

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications • Experience in career services, particularly in coaching and advising students

• Familiarity / specialized knowledge in one or more areas within the arts sector

• The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, adaptable, highly collaborative, and effective at prioritizing tasks, and initiatives

Salary Range $50,000 - $53,000

Working Conditions: • This position is student-facing and requires a minimum of four days on-campus

• Prolonged screen time

• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation

• Use of manual dexterity

Schedule Work Shift: • Regular work shift of 8am-5pm, with occasional nights and weekends as needed for events sponsored by Career Services

Required Materials: • Resume / CV

• Letter of Interest

• 3 References with Contact Information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor

Important   for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers:  You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers:  As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Work

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