Lead Career Coach, Huntley College of Agriculture

Lead Career Coach, Huntley College of Agriculture

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Work type: Staff
Location: Pomona
Categories: Unit 4 - APC - Academic Professionals of California, Temporary, Full Time, Student Services

Type of Appointment
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Full-Time, Temporary (Up to 3 year appointment)

Job Classification
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Student Services Professional IV

Anticipated Hiring Amount: $75,840 annually

Work Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, unless otherwise notified

Recruitment Closing Date
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Open until filled

Priority Consideration Date: February 17, 2026

The Career Center is an integral part of the Office of Academic Innovation (AI) in the Office of Student Success, Equity, and Innovation in the Division of Academic Affairs. AI has as its primary goal to foster and advance a culture of innovation in teaching and learning at Cal Poly Pomona and curate experiential learning opportunities for the campus community. AI is responsible for the strategic, tactical, and operational oversight of the Career Center, Center for Community Engagement, Innovation Incubator, Kellogg Honors College, Office of Undergraduate Research, Student Innovation Idea Lab, and multiple institutional-level initiatives and programs.

The Career Center within AI has as its mission to lead, develop, and connect a diverse Cal Poly Pomona community in career readiness and prepare students for the future of work, human and civic engagement; and as its vision to become a leader in the future of work, human and civic engagement by creating an equity-minded career readiness model while focusing on collaboration and becoming a valued part of the campus community.

The Career Center focuses on reimagining student career and professional readiness and emphasizes personal, career, and professional development across the entire undergraduate experience. The Career Center will play a significant role in the highly visible, campus-wide initiative to cultivate students thriving inside and outside of the classroom, while preparing them for successful future careers and professional engagements. The Career Center integrates existing resources, programs, and creates new initiatives that will benefit students throughout their learning journey as they prepare for meaningful post-graduation opportunities.

• Lead the Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture career team, which will include all the functional areas necessary to support career and professional readiness including FYE career coaches, college career coaches, employer engagement, internship coordinator, job developers, event coordinators, etc. This includes coordinating career team activities and workload.
• Recommend for hire, develop and train the College of Agriculture career team members who will help support and deliver a comprehensive and customized career-readiness model within the College of Agriculture.
• Set strategy for industry aligned career development services that are responsive to student needs and aligned with college, departmental and institutional goals.
• Ensure that day‑to‑day operations of College of Agriculture career team are appropriately directed, efficient and effective.
• Work collectively and collaboratively with the other College Lead Career Coaches to develop innovative approaches and implement new and best practices, share resources, and produce institution-level events such as campus-wide career fairs.
• Design and deploy appropriate assessment activities to measure outcomes and impact.

• Lead programs and services for the Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture that provide personalized, career counseling and advising that focuses on self-assessment, research, job and internship search strategies, reflection, and strategic decision making.
• Develop a comprehensive set of events such as lectures, speaker series, workshops, conferences, trainings, cultural events etc. in collaboration with internal & external resources.
• Build students' career confidence and social capital through College of Agriculture strategic programming and creating career content/materials.
• Conduct classroom and student organization…