Description:

The Opportunity:
The Director of Judicial Clerkships oversees the clerkship process for A Private Ivy League University students and alumni applying to federal and state courts. The Director is responsible for the following:

Delivering comprehensive career advising to students and alumni interested in pursuing post-graduate clerkships with state and federal judges.
Enhancing clerkship opportunities through personal interactions with judges, former clerks, and faculty, as well as networking with peer schools and colleagues nationwide.
Supervising on-campus and virtual events featuring state and federal judges.
Developing and presenting programs to educate candidates on employment opportunities with the judiciary.
Managing the clerkship recommendation letter process by editing letters, corresponding with recommendation writers, and overseeing an administrative assistant's work in support of this process.
Developing electronic resources including weekly eNewsletter and website content.
Serving on the Law School Clerkship Committee.

The Director also works with colleagues in JD student advising offices to coordinate career-development efforts, programming, and student support strategies.

While position responsibilities vary, as an individual contributor you will model and support a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellbeing and continually seek to understand how your role, behaviors, and actions impact the success of this culture.

What We Need:

Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of experience, or equivalent professional experience in higher education administration or legal practice.
Thorough understanding of the legal field to facilitate the counseling of students and alumni.
Creativity and initiative to develop new programming and enhance existing offerings.
Organizational and analytical skills to capture and evaluate statistical data.
Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
Ability to maintain tact under pressure.
Experience in supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
Demonstrated skill in understanding of cultural differences.
Proven experience connecting diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing practices to business goals.

If you possess these experiences and skills this may be the role for you! There are a few other qualifications that we would view as incredibly helpful in this role, to include:

JD or equivalent law school degree. Prior service as a judicial law clerk highly desired.
Comprehensive understanding of the judicial-clerkship hiring process as well as career-counseling skills to assist clerkship applicants.
Leadership or engaged membership in NALP or similar industry organizations.
Experience in and knowledge of legal professional development programming.
Excel, Qualtrics, and web-content editing skills.