At the heart of our work is a simple belief: We are passionate about education and student success. We’re hiring to help bring that belief to life through thoughtful execution, partnership, and a strong commitment to the people we serve. Job Title: Director of Career Services Status: Exempt Location: WFH flexible, candidate must reside in California to be considered.

Reports to: VP, Compliance Employment Type: Full-time Summary Under the general direction of the Vice President of Compliance (VPC), the Director of Career Services (DCS) is responsible for planning, directing, and evaluating a comprehensive program that delivers a wide range of career planning and placement services to students, alumni, community, and employers. The DCS will make management decisions, which can be comprehensive, difficult, and complex and will be required to formulate operational policies at the campus-wide level, subject to the VPC approval in matters related to broad policy considerations, campus-wide coordination, and long-range planning. The DCS exercises full responsibility of meeting Completion and Placement numbers in accordance with ACCET.

The DCS oversees Career Counseling, Career Services, and Job Fairs. In addition, the DCS provides significant assistance to the academic programs and assumes ultimate responsibility for the delivery of career and employment services to CIAT students (Current and Graduates). The DCS will oversee all daily operations of the Career Services Department including new hire recruitment, team coaching, policy and procedure creation, systems integration and automation, student escalations, event participation, and student records management to successfully reach growth-centered goals each term.

Requirements

to ensure all Federal, State, accreditation, and institutional policies and procedures are being met Promote communication guidelines to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and professionalism Embody CIAT’s mission, vision, purpose and values Student Success, Placement Compliance: Maintains primary responsibility for collection, verification, tracking, and reporting of all completion and placement outcomes Oversees the collection and maintenance of employment verification documentation, graduate records, and employer verification records Ensures accurate preparation and submission of ACCET Annual Reports, including completion and placement reporting under Document 28.1 Ensures compliance with all accreditation, state, federal, and institutional reporting

related to student outcomes Collects, analyzes, and reports graduate and employer survey results Develops strategies to improve student retention, completion, graduate outcomes, and placement rates Works collaboratively with Education, Industry and Employer Partnerships, Student Services, and Compliance to support student success initiatives Career Readiness Student