Career Services Coordinator Job Listing at Pima Medical Institute in Phoenix, AZ (Job ID 3D261AD9-AD9B-4C22-9ED1-E33F7B597107)

Description

Facilitate externship placement for all certificate program students, assist all graduates with procurement of employment, oversee all efforts relating to externship and job placement to ensure positive placement outcomes; evaluate and develop career services staff on a consistent basis.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develop and implement plans and strategies to achieve graduate employment goals.
• Attend new student orientations to discuss and present the role of PMI's Career Services Department.
• Update database of employers / externship sites with all new opportunities, as well as externship placements and job placement information.
• Monitor ongoing externship and graduate placement efforts provided by all Career Services Advisors; assist Advisors with externship placement, as required.
• Ensure every new site is qualified, following ABHES/PMI standards, and all necessary paperwork is complete prior to any student commencing externship with the site.
• Communicate externship requirements to students prior to externship and ensure all externship requirements are met before externship commences.
• Provide job placement assistance, as necessary, for all not-yet-placed graduates.
• Counsel and assist new and current extern and graduate students with job-related issues.
• Counsel Career Services staff to ensure student success. 
• Collaborate with campus staff and faculty to resolve student concerns with externship and graduate placement.
• Conduct site visits to ensure student progress via Mid-term Evaluations.
• Assist with exit interviews with all students upon completion of their externship. 
• Conduct job search workshops to assist and train students with networking, resume and cover letter writing, on-line job searches, soft skills and interviewing techniques.
• Assist with coordination of certification testing for graduates.
• Generate ABHES Graduate and Employer Surveys and compile data for benefit of Advisory Boards, PMI Education Department and reporting requirements.
• Maintain Clinical Extern Affiliate Surveys (questions completed by Site Supervisors on annual survey). Summarize survey results and follow up with participants.
• Maintain Student Externship Surveys (completed by all Certificate students at their Exit Interview immediately following externship). Summarize survey results and follow up with participants.
• Generate follow-up calls, e-mails, texts, to all not-yet-placed graduates to ensure ongoing contact and update of graduates' employment information in database.
• Maintain current data and generate reports to monitor externship and job placement statistics and ongoing progress; prepare job trend analysis and surveys.
• Coordinate Advisory Board meetings, including entry of requisite data in employer database; select new members for the Board and work with Faculty Coordinator to facilitate meetings.
• Coordinate and attend Job / Career Fairs, and externship site and agency appreciation events; participate in campus and off-campus events, including graduation and marketing events.
• Conduct weekly site visits for the express purpose of enhancing existing relationships with employers / sites and establishing new partnership opportunities.
• Serve as a liaison between PMI students and clinics, hospitals, laboratories and medical facilities for the purpose of establishing and continuing ongoing partnerships with extern sites and employers.
• Complete preliminary performance evaluations for all Career Services Advisors (Campus Director to review, sign off and forward to Human Resources) and counsel Career Services staff with job-related issues.
• Monitor work of all Career Services team members to ensure minimum 70% placement rate in all programs.

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Minimum three (3) years of recruiting/placement, marketing, public relations and/or teaching experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Computer and word processing skills
• Networking skills
• Any equivalent combination of training, education or experience that meets the minimum qualifications.