About Bellarmine University:
Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of approximately 3,200 students and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 387 Colleges and is recognized as a top U.S. university in rankings published by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world.
SmartAsset ranked Louisville among the top 25 U.S. cities for best work-life balance, while workplace insights platform kununu.com named Louisville one of the top five U.S. cities for happy employees. Glassdoor recently recognized Louisville as one of the top 15 cities for jobs, based on hiring opportunity, cost of living and job satisfaction. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 10 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population.
Deeply embedded in the heart of Louisville, Bellarmine is an engaged partner expanding learning opportunities, enhancing career networks and economic growth, and advancing equity and quality of life for its neighboring communities. By connecting the campus, the community, and the curriculum through engaged scholarship and action, we enhance social and civic engagement, including faculty, staff, and student-led, asset-based initiatives.
Bellarmine is committed to core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Bellarmine will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of its increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential.
Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply.
Job Description:
The Career Development Center has an immediate opening for a Career Advisor. This position is a full-time, 12-month, exempt position, with the opportunity to work a HyFlex schedule during summer months. Given the nature of the position, some occasional evening and weekend work may be required.
The Career Advisor will work with a dynamic, data-driven team to support the full scope of work related to career education and advising. This position is vital to expanding and enhancing the career development support and resources available to assist students in the pursuit of meaningful work and the continuation of successful first destination outcomes, with 99% of graduates working or continuing education within six months of commencement.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree required; master's degree in student affairs, counseling, or other related field preferred
One to two years of experience in the area of career advising, counseling, or student affairs required; one to two years of experience with event planning, presenting/public speaking, working with diverse populations and customer service preferred
Familiarity with career assessments such as PathwayU and the Strong Interest Inventory required
Candidates must also demonstrate the following NACE Career Readiness Competencies:
Additional Information:
The mission of the Bellarmine University Career Development Center is to empower career-ready students and alumni to successfully live, work, lead, and serve in the global community and our vision is to create a career ecosystem across campus that provides pathways to meaningful work for all students and alumni.
Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.
Application Instructions:
Please submit a cover letter to Jackie McNatt, Director of Career Development, along with a resume and contact information for three professional references by clicking on the appropriate link in this posting. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.