Graduate Support Associate at Moringa School

Key Responsibilities

1. Career coaching
2. Empower graduates to make reasoned major/career choices and to develop realistic implementation plans.
3. Ability to do career guidance and counselling, and career planning for early career developers.
4. Soft skills and job readiness support
5. 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.
6. Coordinate the dissemination of employment opportunity information to ensure timely reactions to job listings
7. Employer Relations
8. Identify, develop and secure relationships with employers to hire graduates through internship and/or direct hire job opportunities.
9. Data Collection, Tracking and Analysis
10. Ensure that we meet or exceed job placement rate as established by organization
11. Keep detailed and accurate records relating to internship and job search process for each graduate
12. 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
13. Graduate Administrative support
14. 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

Career Growth & Development

We do not believe that an organization can grow without the growth & development of its staff.  At Moringa School, we are consistently building systems to invest in the growth of our employees. We are deeply invested in offering career growth within Moringa, provide actionable feedback through “weekly check-ins” & thorough career reviews.

We will work together with you to craft roles that both support the needs of the organization and that you can be passionate about.