Graduate Support Associate at Moringa School

Key Responsibilities

• Career coaching
• Empower graduates to make reasoned major/career choices and to develop realistic implementation plans.
• Ability to do career guidance and counselling, and career planning for early career developers.
• Soft skills and job readiness support
• Improve student preparedness for professionalism in the workplace by assisting graduates with job skills that will allow them to be successful in their job search, including resume and letter writing; interviewing; job search strategies.
• Coordinate the dissemination of employment opportunity information to ensure timely reactions to job listings
• Employer Relations
• Identify, develop and secure relationships with employers to hire graduates through internship and/or direct hire job opportunities.
• Data Collection, Tracking and Analysis
• Ensure that we meet or exceed job placement rate as established by organization
• Keep detailed and accurate records relating to internship and job search process for each graduate
• Analyze data from records to draw out insights and communicate insights and recommendations to both the Access and BD & Outcomes Teams to inform improvements in program design
• Graduate Administrative support
• Evaluate student needs and liaise with the core Access team to ensure students have access to resources to unblock their ability to get into employment.

Key Competencies

• Experience working with post-high school or university students required
• Knowledge of youth empowerment/ skills development programs.
• Ability to conduct Job readiness skills training to students and alumni as they navigate early career realities.
• Ability to form and manage key stakeholder partnerships
• Passionate about Career Coaching
• Data collection and analysis
• Ability to train on Job search strategies and job readiness skills
• Efficient time and task management skills: the ability to plan and integrate a number of different tasks and achieve required outcomes

Qualifications

• Any relevant degree
• 3 years experience in career coaching and job placement
• Strong communication skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced, startup environment.
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized.
• Able to work independently and as a team member, participating in a positive manner toward achieving the mission of the division.
• Ability to analyze and define problems, collect data, establish and evaluate facts, draw valid conclusions, and make and implement decisions.
• Tendency to take initiative- come up with ideas, proactively solve problems, make suggestions to improve processes, etc.
• People-person: good relationship building and management skills.
• Familiarity with and experience using Google products (drive, calendar, etc)
• Basic data analysis and visualization skills