Career Navigator

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Posting Details

Position Title: Career Navigator FLSA: Exempt Job Type: Full-Time Staff Term: 12 Months Staff Work Schedule (hours/dates): Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Academic Year Schedule (dates): Faculty Term: Position Type: Staff Department: Life and Career Design Institute Job Summary/Basic Function: The Career Navigator is committed to assisting each student to reach their full potential while providing a person-centered experience that prioritizes agency, engagement, and preparedness to live an abundant life. Using the principles of Life Design, the Career Navigator supports students in imagining and designing meaningful lives and careers through early discovery, ongoing exploration, and skill development.

1. Career Advising (50%): Using both formal and informal life and career design tools to provide individual counseling, coaching, and advising to students. Assists students in making well-informed career choices, experiential education, and employment decisions. Capture engagement data in Handshake and provide reports to the Director as requested. Refer students to technology solutions and personnel as appropriate.

2. Programming (20%): Support the planning and execution of signature programs and workshops. Deliver customized presentations about LCDI priorities. Will be responsible for teaching one or more sections of the First-Year Experience Lab and providing administrative and programmatic support to the Director of Life and Career Navigation.

3. Supervision of student employees (15%): The Life and Career Design Institute utilizes student employment as a form of experiential learning and as a mechanism to extend the reach and capacity of the office. This role will develop and assess learning objectives and student employee success.

4. Other Duties (15%): Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. Minimum Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

Compensation and Benefits To attract and retain the most talented individuals, Wheaton College maintains a flexible and competitive staff compensation and benefits program.

When determining and establishing hiring rates or recruitment ranges for a position, the College considers a number of factors including the budget for the position, the range of the grade, the external market for the position or similar positions, level and scope of responsibilities, required education, skills and relevant experience as well as internal equity. All salary offers must have the prior approval of the Office of Human Resources.

The anticipated hiring range for this position is $50-$55K. The salary for the selected candidate will be determined depending upon and commensurate with the qualifications, education and experience of the candidate. Physical Demands ADA Statement: Individuals must possess these knowledges, skills and abilities or be able to explain and demonstrate that the individual can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities. Eeo Statement Wheaton College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, race, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, or disability. In a continuing effort to maintain and enrich an intellectually diverse learning environment, the Department and the College actively encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented groups.

Wheaton's core belief is that valuing diversity is pivotal to personal development, intellectual expansion, and societal equity. Our community is united by a shared dedication to equity and access that is essential to providing a transformative education in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Posting Date: 07/24/2026 Closing Date: Open Until Filled Yes Contact(s): Office of Human Resources Contact Phone/Extension: 508-286-8206 Contact Email: [email protected]

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