Description:
The Director of Public Interest/Public Sector (PIPS) Programs leads the Career Development Office's PIPS team, which includes career counselors and a program coordinator. Responsibilities include overseeing PIPS programming, events, and resources while providing tailored career counseling to J.D. students and alumni pursuing public interest and public sector legal careers. The Director also manages summer and post-graduate fellowship programs.Key duties involve:
- Career Services: Delivering expert counseling informed by extensive PIPS legal practice experience and market knowledge.
- Programming: Designing and assessing innovative workshops, panels, and networking events.
- Employer Outreach: Building and maintaining relationships with PIPS employers, bar associations, and legal professionals to enhance job opportunities.
- Resource Development: Continuously updating and creating tools and services to address evolving job market trends.
- Collaboration: Partnering with Berkeley Law faculty, research centers, and alumni networks to support diverse student needs.
The Director must hold a J.D., possess significant PIPS experience, and excel in market analysis, relationship cultivation, and strategic program development to support students' career aspirations in a competitive and dynamic legal landscape.
Application Review Date
The First Review Date for this job is: January 2, 2025
Responsibilities:
- Provides one-on-one, individually tailored and client-driven career consulting services to students interested in pursuing PIPS careers (a particularly complex area that requires specialized expertise). Assists students in conducting their own self-assessments.
- Provides students with general advice based on their expert knowledge of the PIPS legal market, as well as specific job leads and networking contacts developed through continuing cultivation and expansion of the Law School's -- and the Director's -- professional network.
- The incumbent will be expected to amplify and promote best practices in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging when working with students and when helping to create professional pathways and opportunities for career growth.
- The Director will lead the office's ongoing research and analysis of the current state of the PIPS legal services and legal job markets and observation of emerging trends in those markets.
- Will ensure that the PIPS team is continuously identifying existing and up-and-coming career and job options, assessing (on a continuing basis) their short-and long-term feasibility for our alumni attorneys, and exploring alternatives to traditional legal practice.
- Based on this on-going research, analysis, assessment and trend-spotting, the Director will oversee and lead the PIPS team through the design, development, and implementation of an array of workshops and programs, services, and resources (including online guides and videos) to meet the career needs of our students interested in pursuing PIPS careers.
- Ensures that all logistics are in place for successful programs.
- Develops communications and promotion strategy for all PIPS programs.
- The Director will lead the PIPS team through the assessment process for managing improvements, revisions, changes, and adjustments to the existing array of career consulting services, programs, resources and will make recommendations to the Deputy Director on the plan for the development and implementation of entirely new services, programs and resources.
- The Director will provide ultimate oversight over the PIPS team's administration of the Summer Fellowship Program and the two post-graduate public interest fellowship programs.
- Serves as the CDO's ambassador to key PIPS stakeholders, including the Public Interest Working Group, the organizers of Public Interest/Public Sector Day, public interest fellowship funders, law school centers, and student group leaders.
- Participate alongside the Assistant Dean and Deputy Director in leadership meetings with key law school stakeholders and PIPS employers and will step in and lead those meetings when the Assistant Dean and Deputy Director are not available.
- Establishes new positive working relationships with PIPS employers, (and others who may be of assistance to our PIPS oriented students (and who may be of assistance in fundraising and in enhancing the campus's relationship with outside organizations).
- Utilizes expertise to determine, based on knowledge of technical systems, the most innovative and effective media for delivering content – online, print, blogs, social networking website posts, zoom programs, etc.
- Practices best practices and trains the PIPS team members on how to use all of these resources for their own programming and content development.
- Leads effort to coordinate with PIPS Program Coordinator and Work Study Student on specific administrative tasks to support PIPS programming (e.g., room reservations, technology, catering arrangements, drafting and posting event announcements, RSVP forms, etc.).
- Develops and oversees presentation and delivery of broad and complex career-focused programs and events workshops, and resources.
- Works closely with the Employer Relations Manager and Deputy Director to ensure that the PIPS Program Coordinator and Work Study Student are actively engaged in continuous administrative support of the entire PIPS team on programming and events.
- Utilizes expertise to determine, based on knowledge of technical systems, the most innovative and effective media for delivering content – online, print, blogs, social networking website posts, zoom programs, etc.
- Develops best practices and trains the PIPS team members on how to use all of these resources for their own programming and content development.
- Develops and maintains the Law School's 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 PIPS work.
- Maintains and enhances their own professional network and leverages it on behalf of students and alumni.
- Participates in panel discussions and presentations and researches and writes articles relating to the PIPS legal job market and the provision of PIPS career services through local and national recruitment associations, like the National Association for Law Placement and Equal Justice Works.
- Provides career counseling in particularly complex areas that require specialized expertise, such as Ph.D. students who are investigating careers inside or outside academia and in legal clinical settings, including other students obtaining terminal professional degrees such as J.D.s, M.D.s, etc.
- Serve as a key member of the office's PIPS strategic planning efforts, including the collection and analysis of data and outcomes from existing on-campus interview programs and the evaluation of trends in PIPS hiring and the subsequent opportunities for change and growth.
- Engages in professional development and training opportunities as needed.
- Performs additional duties within the scope of this classification as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced knowledge of career development theories, adult development theory, counseling processes, career coaching techniques, career decision making, learning styles, and job search techniques.
- Advanced knowledge of needs assessment theory, processes, and practice; workshop and program design.
- Advanced knowledge of and/or ability to quickly learn UC programs, career services, employer, alumni, and faculty needs and expectations, recruiting and staffing methods, employment trends.
- Highly effective problem identification and solving skills, presentation skills, verbal communication, written communication, and organization skills.
- Strong ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and levels of experience.
- Detailed knowledge of the PIPS legal employment market (and general knowledge of the private sector job markets)
- Extensive professional network of practicing attorneys and potential employers.
- Creative, entrepreneurial, forward-looking, and energetic approach that can identify and pursue new potential programs and innovative ways to present and deliver their content.
- Highly developed knowledge of principles and processes for providing outstanding client and personal services. This includes client needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of client satisfaction.
- Excellent knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; and learning and motivation.
- Excellent computer skills and the ability to quickly adapt to new software programs and on-line resources.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated commitment to and understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), and ability to apply and integrate core concepts of DEIB into everyday practice.
- Must be committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included.
- Must demonstrate a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community.
- Significant (3+ years) PIPS sector legal practice experience.
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