Program Manager I, Career Services – Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Under the direction of the Director of Student and Postdoctoral Affairs, the Program Manager for Career Services & Alumni Relations provides career guidance and counseling to graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, builds and maintains relationships with potential employers, coordinates professional development and other special events, partners with Mount Sinai Innovation Partners on entrepreneurship training opportunities and other special programs, and works with the ISMMS Alumni Office to track and maintain relationships with student and postdoctoral alumni.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance to graduate students in Master’s and Doctoral degree programs and to postdoctoral trainees on matters related to career planning, job searches, and career development. Coach and guide students and trainees regarding job readiness, through mentoring sessions, presentations, mock interviews, resume/CV guidance, and other means.
- Build and maintain relationships with potential employers. Perform ongoing networking online and in-person with employers and other relevant organizations.
- Coordinate on-campus and virtual employment events that engage academic and non-academic employers.
- Work with the ISMMS Alumni Office to maintain communication and good relations with alumni, to field inquiries, and to organize special alumni events. Serve as a point of contact for alumni to the Graduate School.
- Through a variety of mechanisms, collect and track data related to outcomes and placement of students and trainees. Prepare reports for internal and external distribution summarizing placement outcomes and career progress of former students and postdoctoral trainees. Identify trends and opportunities for improvement/optimization.
- Maintain familiarity with developments in the career advising/career development field, especially as related to scientific and healthcare fields.
- As a member of the Student and Postdoctoral Affairs team, work closely with other team members, support projects and events managed by the team, and perform other related duties.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree and three years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Preferred: Ph.D.
- Knowledge of career advising/career counseling field and practices. Experience providing career and job readiness coaching. Experience preparing and delivering presentations.
- Understanding of fields pertinent to GSBS students/trainees, such as biomedical sciences, neuroscience, and data science. Experience as a student or postdoc in a scientific field is a plus.
- Strong communication, networking, and relationship management skills.
- Comfort with relevant metrics and ability to demonstrate and report on measurable outcomes
Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $58661 – $98827 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals, receiving high “Honor Roll” status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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