Director Of Experiential Opportunities And Outreach

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Director of Experiential Opportunities and Outreach

Duties: Managing public interest and government employer outreach; capstones, externships, and other experiential education requirements and initiatives; and law student participation in study abroad programs. Will provide individual career counseling to current students and alumni/ae and will respond to inquiries from prospective students. Will counsel and advise students about externship opportunities, capstone placements, and study abroad programs. Counsel and advise students about externship and capstone placement opportunities available through the School of Law. Be familiar with the differences between the experiences available at each. Assist students in their efforts to obtain helpful feedback on their work and critiques of their performances at the externship or capstone site. Respond to a wide range of questions from students and public interest/government employers. Ensure compliance with ABA Field Placement requirements for self-arranged full- and part-time externships. Coordinate and assign law faculty liaisons (LFLs) for each experiential placement and follow-up with LFLs for grading and evaluation. Handle communications with externship and capstone placement site personnel and exchange program personnel regarding administrative aspects of programs, including but not limited to emails, phone calls, and drafting correspondence. Coordinate School of Law student enrollment in the school’s exchange and concurrent degree programs. Assist with marketing efforts for exchange programs. Organize informational programming for students related to externship, capstone, and study abroad opportunities. Perform research to identify new employers and alumni for public interest and government employer development and externship program/capstone efforts. Conduct a great majority of all public interest/government employer development outreach, including out-of-state markets and local and regional markets. Maintain relationships with current public interest/government employers in target markets across the country. This includes phone contact and personal appointments. Solicit both new and continued participation by local and national public interest and government employers (alumni and non-alumni) in interview programs, job postings, and externship programs and capstones. Evaluate and approve various externship placement sites for possible inclusion in the externship program. Evaluate sites for possible capstone placement. Ensure a wide range of placements are available to students so that all have adequate opportunities to participate. Communicate regularly with the associate dean, assistant dean and all office staff on public interest/government employers and exchange program information. Counsel a substantial number of students and alumni regarding resumes, cover letters, search strategies, externship program positions, and other job related activities. Attend alumni events locally and nationally to foster relationships with prospective public interest/government employers and externship/capstone placement sites. Work with the law school’s Office of Development and Public Affairs to coordinate alumni contacts. Serve as a representative of the Office of Student Services & Career Development to prospective students. Includes responding to inquiries, and meeting with prospective students on an individual basis and in groups at Admissions events. Serve as the office contact for issues relating to pro bono/public interest initiatives and outreach. Participate in, and lead as appropriate, the activities of the Office of Student Services & Career Development, including interview programs, and the collection and dissemination of employment records and statistics. Assist in the development of strategies for marketing and employer development. Engage with appropriate law school, University, and external committees and organizations.

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