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Open Date 09/18/2026 Requisition Number PRN46254B Job Title Graduate Student Coord III Working Title Law Career Counselor Career Progression Track E Track Level FLSA Code Professional Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hours per Week 30 hours average a week Full Time or Part Time? Full Time Shift Day Work Schedule Summary

This is a 0.75 FTE position, around 30 hrs per week. Work schedule could include evenings, and weekends.

VP Area Academic Affairs Department 00096 - College of Law - Dean Location Campus City Salt Lake City, UT Type of Recruitment External Posting Pay Rate Range $75,000 - $80,000 Close Date 12/31/2026 Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time) Job Summary

The S.J. Quinney College of Law is a top-ranked public law school with a national reputation for academic excellence, student success, and strong employment and bar-passage outcomes. The College of Law seeks a motivated and student-centered Career Coach to help JD students identify and pursue meaningful employment opportunities and successfully transition into the legal profession.

Working within the Career Development Office (CDO), the Career Coach will provide individualized career advising, job-search support, and professional development programming tailored to the legal employment market. The position will advise students across all three years of law school, with particular responsibility for helping graduating students and recent graduates secure post-graduate employment.

The Career Coach will help students evaluate legal and law-related career paths, develop effective application materials, prepare for interviews, build professional networks, and navigate the recruitment practices and timelines associated with different legal sectors. The position will also work closely with colleagues, faculty, alumni, and employers to identify opportunities and improve student employment outcomes.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of law school and a practical understanding of the legal profession and legal employment market. The ideal candidate will be an effective advisor and communicator who can build trust with students, provide candid and constructive guidance, and work proactively with students at different stages of career readiness.

Responsibilities

1. Individual Career Advising: Maintain an assigned student caseload and provide individualized advising on career goals, practice-area interests, employment options, and job-search strategy.
2. Employment Planning: Help students develop and carry out individualized employment plans, including appropriate timelines, target employers, networking strategies, and follow-up activities.
3. Application Materials: Review and provide substantive feedback on legal resumes, cover letters, writing samples, professional biographies, and other employment materials.
4. Interview Preparation: Conduct mock interviews and prepare students for screening interviews, callback interviews, judicial interviews, and other legal hiring processes.
5. Legal Career Guidance: Advise students on employment pathways in private practice, government, public interest organizations, judicial clerkships, business, compliance, and other JD-advantage settings.
6. Recruitment and Job-Search Support: Help students navigate on-campus interviewing, employer recruitment programs, job fairs, direct applications, networking-based searches, and other hiring processes.
7. Experiential Opportunities: Assist students in identifying summer employment, internships, judicial externships, public interest opportunities, and other experiences that strengthen their qualifications for post-graduate employment.
8. Graduating Student and Graduate Support: Provide intensive outreach and job-search assistance to graduating students and recent graduates who are seeking employment, including support during the period following graduation and the bar examination.
9. Career Programming: Develop and deliver workshops, panels, and other programs addressing legal employment markets, recruitment timelines, networking, interviewing, professional identity, and career readiness.
10. Employer and Alumni Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with legal employers, alumni, faculty, and other professional contacts to identify employment opportunities, strengthen referral networks, and connect students with relevant practitioners.
11. Employment Outcomes: Contribute to the College’s employment-outcomes strategy by monitoring student progress, identifying students who need additional support, and recommending targeted interventions.
12. Data and Reporting: Maintain timely and accurate advising records in 12Twenty or other Career Development Office systems and assist with the collection, verification, and reporting of graduate employment data required by the ABA, NALP, and the University.
13. Collaboration and Outreach: Collaborate with Career Development Office colleagues, faculty, student organizations, and other University partners to expand student participation in career services and support institutional employment goals.
14. Participate in relevant professional development activities to remain current on legal hiring practices, employment trends, and effective career-advising strategies.
15. Perform other duties as assigned.

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience).

4 years’ of related experience.

Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences

• Juris Doctor degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Admission to a state bar and experience practicing law.
• Experience advising law students, lawyers, or other professionals regarding career development or employment.
• Knowledge of legal recruiting practices and hiring timelines across multiple sectors of the legal profession.
• Experience working with law firms, courts, government agencies, public interest organizations, or other legal employers.
• Experience developing and presenting professional development workshops or group instruction.
• Familiarity with 12Twenty or comparable career-services, applicant-tracking, or customer-relationship-management systems.
• Familiarity with ABA and NALP graduate employment reporting standards.
• At least three years of experience in legal practice, legal recruiting, law-school career services, judicial clerkships, professional development, or another area providing substantial familiarity with the legal profession and legal employment market.
• Demonstrated ability to provide thoughtful, practical, and individualized professional guidance.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to manage a student caseload, maintain accurate records, and follow through consistently on advising and employment-related matters.
• Ability to work effectively with students, colleagues, alumni, and employers from a wide range of backgrounds and professional settings.

Type Benefited Staff Special Instructions Summary

This is a 0.75 FTE position, generally equivalent to 30 hours per week. Some early morning, evening, or weekend work may be required for programs, recruiting events, and other College activities.

Priority review of applications will begin on 10/12. This position is open until filled.

Additional Information

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

The University of Utah values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education.

Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities.

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