Veterans Career Services Specialist (part-time)

May 30, 2024
Long Island Campus
Office of Military & Veteran Services

Primary Locations: St. Joseph’s University New York, Long Island Campus & Great River Office

Reports to: Project Coordinator, US Dept. of Education Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success
(CEVSS) Grant

The Veterans Career Services Specialist will serve as the university’s primary point person for career services and professional development for the Brooklyn and Long Island Campuses’ military-affiliated (MA) students and will report to the 3-year Grant’s Project Coordinator. This position will provide all career services functions, including individual military and veteran-centric career counseling, coaching, and utilization of external MA career development and employment resources. The planning, creating and execution of MA-specific career development programs is essential and will include developing an awareness of the services provided and heightened utilization of these services by the university’s military-affiliated cohort.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities Include:

  • Host career/post-graduate guidance appointments for MA students.
  • Connect MA students with the Handshake career platform and assist with job searches
  • Develop and maintain a Veteran-specific Job Bank
  • Administer the Internship Stipend program for veterans partaking in an unpaid internship.
  • Provide career guidance honing resumes, mock interviews, and other related skills; translating military service experience to civilian resume
  • Assist Office of Alumni Engagement in developing an Alumni Veteran Mentoring network.
  • Support usage of SJConnect cultivating an online veteran student-alumni mentorship group
  • Serve as a university liaison/ambassador on campus and in the military/veteran community
  • Assist in gathering feedback and data on grant program usage and survey assessments.
  • Meet with the Grant Project Coordinator bi-weekly and participate in monthly Vet Team meetings

Required Experience/ Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree
  • Experience working in the Career Development/Services field

Preferred Experience/ Qualifications:

  • Higher Ed Career Services experience and/or formal credentials a plus
  • 1 year of prior experience advising those that are military-affiliated in the higher education or employment sector
  • Professional and/or personal experience in military transitions (service to civilian; service to student)
  • Knowledge of and familiarity with NY area military and veteran community resources

Salary: $27,500 annually

Work Hours/Schedule: 18 hours per week

Please submit a Cover Letter and Resume via email to the attention of:
Alyia Perez, Project Coordinator, CEVSS Grant
[email protected]

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The University also provides accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If you need an accommodation during the application process or while employed, please contact Human Resources.

Your employment is contingent upon receipt of proof of eligibility to work in the United States. Please note that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requires that all U.S. employers complete and retain a current Form I-9 for each individual they hire for employment in the United States, verifying the employment eligibility and identity documents presented by the employee and recording the document information. You will be required to complete your portion of the document, with your documentation verifying your identity and eligibility to work, no later than your third day of employment.