Job Description
Associate Director of Public Interest Programs, Career Development Office (4517U), Berkeley Law - 62157 About Berkeley
At the University of California, Berkeley, we are committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging make it a special place for students, faculty and staff.
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We are looking for equity-minded applicants who represent the full diversity of California and who demonstrate a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community. When you join the team at Berkeley, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, staff, students and community partners. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Berkeley, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with our Guiding Values and Principles , our Principles of Community , and our Strategic Plan .
At UC Berkeley, we believe that learning is a fundamental part of working, and our goal is for everyone on the Berkeley campus to feel supported and equipped to realize their full potential. We actively support this by providing all of our staff employees with at least 80 hours (10 days) of paid time per year to engage in professional development activities. To find out more about how you can grow your career at UC Berkeley, visit grow.berkeley.edu .
Departmental Overview UC Berkeley's School of Law is one of the nation's great centers for legal education, ever exploring and pushing new intellectual boundaries while tackling urgent, real-world issues. The law school is also known for its vibrant and engaged community of students and scholars who are committed to providing leadership and making a difference on problems of local, national and global import. Currently ranked among the top law schools in the country, the School of Law has ambitious development goals as it looks to continue producing leaders in law, government, and society.
The Career Development Office (CDO) provides legal career advice to law students and alumni. The office is staffed by eight attorney-counselors, each with legal practice experience. While all of the CDO's attorney-counselors are generalists and can speak to the most common legal career paths, each of the counselors also has areas of specialization, representing the four major categories of legal employers: judicial clerkships, public interest, government, and the private sector.
CDO helps students explore a variety of legal career options—both traditional and nontraditional—and determine how to pursue them.
The Associate Director for Public Interest Programs (“AD”) provides expert career counseling to Berkeley Law's 900 J.D. students and the members of its 10,000+ alumni community, in particular those interested in pursuing public interest legal careers.
The AD utilizes their extensive contacts in the public interest/public sector legal community and their continually updated (and in-depth) knowledge of the rapidly evolving job market in this community (and its likely future direction) to provide individually tailored, client-driven career counseling to our students interested in an internship or career in public interest or the public sector.
The AD also utilizes their knowledge, experience, and the results of their on-going market research and analysis to independently create, plan, develop, and implement cutting-edge programs, networking events, other activities, services, and resources. The goal of these programs, events, services and resources is to educate students about the full range of their public interest/public sector career options and to assist them in developing their job search and networking skill sets in the public interest/public sector setting. The AD also administers programs that offer financial support to students pursuing public interest work (i.e., summer fellowship and post-graduate fellowship programs). They need to continually evaluate existing programs, services and resources for efficacy and make appropriate changes. More importantly, the AD must also autonomously design, develop and implement innovative new ones on an on-going basis in response to emerging trends and evolving student interests.
The AD oversees the delivery of these services, programs and resources through career services staff and through various print, digital, and social media.
The AD must go beyond merely maintaining and enhancing existing contacts with potential public interest employers (and others in the public interest legal community with specialized expertise). They must also cultivate new relationships in order to ensure our students have the best available access to public interest networking and job opportunities as soon as they present themselves. In order to succeed in this, the AD must be an active and involved member of local and national associations that provide access to potential new contacts, such as Equal Justice Works, the National Association of Law Placement, and OneJustice.
As a recognized leader in providing public interest career advice (and expert in the public interest legal job market), the AD would be expected to participate in the leadership of these organizations by offering their services as a presenter or panelist at education conferences and by contributing articles to their publications (and perhaps even to local and national media).
Because the AD needs to have current knowledge of the state (and direction) of the public interest legal job market, the full range of public interest legal career options, potential employers, and potential networking contacts with relevant expertise, they must be familiar with relevant information sources and be a tenacious, exhaustive, and creative researcher.
Application Review Date The First Review Date for this job is: December 15, 2023
Responsibilities - Researches, and analyzes the current state of the public interest legal services and public interest legal job markets and forecasts emerging trends in those markets.
- Identifies existing and up-and-coming career and job options and assesses (on a continuing basis) their short-and long-term feasibility for our students.
- Researches and periodically assesses the evolving career development needs of the attorneys who comprise the alumni community.
- Based on this on-going research, analysis, assessment and trend-spotting, designs and develops, and implements an array of workshops and programs, services, and resources (including online guides and webcasts) to meet the current career development needs of our students interested in public interest legal careers.
- Recommends and manages improvements, revisions, changes, and adjustments to the existing array of career consulting services, programs, and resources AND devises, develops and implements entirely new services, programs and resources.
- Provides one-on-one, individually tailored and client-driven career consulting services to students interested in pursuing public interest careers - or who are seeking public interest internships.
- Assists students in conducting their own (skills and interests) self-assessments.
- Provides students not only with general advice based on their expert knowledge of the public interest legal market, but also specific job leads and networking contacts developed through continuing cultivation and expansion of the Law School's -- and the AD's -- professional network.
- Amplifies and promotes best practices in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging when working with students and when helping to create professional pathways and opportunities for career growth.
- Develops and maintains the Law School's existing professional network of potential employers, other law school legal career professionals, and others in the legal field who may be in a position to provide information and assistance to our students interested in pursuing public interest work.
- Maintains and enhances their own professional network and leverages it on behalf of students.
- Establishes new positive working relationships with public interest organizations, and others in the legal community who may be of assistance to our public interest-oriented students (and who may be of assistance in fundraising and in enhancing the campus's relationship with outside organizations).
- Develops and oversees presentation and delivery of broad and complex career-focused programs and events workshops, and resources.
- Manages career services staff on specific administrative tasks they undertake in support of public interest programming (e.g., room reservations, catering arrangemen]]>
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Full time, Temporary work, Summer work, Internship, Local area, Immediate start,