Associate Director of Public Interest Programs, Career Development Office , Berkeley Law

Associate Director of Public Interest Programs, Career Development Office (4517U), Berkeley Law

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UC Berkeley’s School of Law is one of the nation’s great centers for legal education, exploring new intellectual boundaries while tackling urgent, real‑world issues. The law school is known for its vibrant community of students and scholars who are committed to providing leadership and making a difference on problems of local, national and global import.

• Researches and analyzes the current state of the public interest legal services and public interest legal job markets and forecasts emerging trends.
• Identifies existing and up‑and‑coming career and job options and assesses 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 ongoing research, designs, 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 its 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 its 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 the 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 arrangements, drafting and posting event announcements, etc.).
• Determines, based on its knowledge of technical systems, the most innovative and effective media for delivering content – online, print, blogs, social networking website posts, twitter, live webcasting, etc.
• Liaises with various other Law School departments, in particular its several multi‑disciplinary research centers (especially the Henderson Center for Social Justice), faculty members, student organizations,…