• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $185,000 - $200,000

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Position Summary

Reporting to the Senior Associate Dean of the Career Management Center, the Assistant Dean, Career Education and Advising provides strategic leadership for the career education and advising program at Career Management Center (CMC). The CMC supports all segments of Columbia Business School’s MBA and MS talent pool, including 1800+ enrolled students and more than 49,000 global alumni guided by its mission to empower students and alumni to achieve their lifelong career ambitions.

The Assistant Dean provides strategic direction to a team of 14 professional staff members and serves as a thought leader and institutional representative across student, employer, faculty, and peer school audiences. This role is central to advancing the CMC’s ability to deliver high-impact career education, personalized advising, and employer engagement that prepares Columbia Business School (CBS) graduates to lead and transition effectively throughout their careers.

ABOUT CBS

For over a century, Columbia Business School (CBS) has helped develop leaders and enterprise builders who drive value for their stakeholders and society at large through our MBA, MS, PhD, and Executive Education programs. We are equally committed to cultivating new scholars and teachers and to creating and disseminating pathbreaking knowledge, concepts, and tools that advance the understanding and practice of management through our faculty research and PhD programs. Our vision is simple: to develop ideas and leaders that transform the world, from the very center of business.

Our ever-evolving curriculum, featuring pioneering courses, STEM certification, and immersive experiential learning, prepares students to excel in key areas such as digital transformation, entrepreneurship, innovation, twenty-first-century finance, the intersection of business and society, and climate and sustainability. The CBS administration enables CBS’s educational and scholarly mission through strategic and operational guidance and support, optimizing School resources through well-designed, transparent processes, and fostering a culture of respect for all.

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Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Provides strategic direction for the Career Education and Advising team, ensuring alignment with CMC vision and goals.

• Serves as a core member of the CMC Senior Leadership team, contributing to institution-wide planning and decision making.

• Cultivates a high-performing, collaborative team that includes both managers and professional staff, providing direction, performance oversight, and development support across all levels.

• Partners with the Strategic Partnerships Team to establish employer and alumni engagement strategies, ensuring ongoing communication and alignment with School partners.

Program Development and Advising

• Provides strategic guidance on professional development content and resources for graduate business students. Designs and delivers career education seminars, workshops and panels with senior business leaders; oversee full career education curriculum to ensure alignment with market needs and CMC thought leadership.

• Advises graduate business students, both individually and in groups, on career self-assessment, targeting, networking strategy, resume and pitch development, interviewing skills and job offer management. Evaluate and continuously improve career resources to address the evolving needs of graduate business students.

• Ensure educational offerings and career frameworks are consistently communicated to internal and external audiences.

• Provides strategic guidance to staff managing the Columbia Coaching Program of 25+ alumni coaches and the Career Fellows Program of 70+ student leaders.

Data Management

• Collaborates with the Executive Director of Operations to determine advising, employment, and market data needs.

• Leverages data to inform curriculum development, service delivery , and strategic planning.

Relationship Management

• Liaises with senior faculty and academic centers to align career education offerings with market needs and facilitate programming collaborations.

• Partners with professional student clubs to support employer connections and professional development needs.

• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders across the Dean’s Office, Development & Alumni Relations, Student Affairs, Admissions, Marketing and Communications, and Operations on career programming, school events, and related initiatives.

• Engages external stakeholders including public, private and nonprofit hiring organizations and executive search firms to promote MBA and EMCA students and support placement efforts.

External Representation & Communications

• Represents the CMC at select professional meetings, recruiter meetings, media/press interactions, and with peer schools, as appropriate.

• Participates in thought-leadership events at CBS and in partnership with key professional organizations

• Liaises with faculty and school administrators to determine strategy for professional development

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required and minimum of 7-9 years of related experience including staff management, career advising, and professional development programming and delivery.

• Strategic and analytic mindset with strong knowledge of the business environment and industry landscape

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing professional staff team in higher education, career services, or talent development environment

• Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, include students, faculty, employers, and senior administrators

• Experience advising graduate or professional students on career management, with the ability to work effectively across diverse student populations

• Demonstrated ability to leverage data to inform programming and strategic decisions

• Excellent internal, written, and verbal communication skills, strong presentation skills required.

• Ability to work some evenings, Saturdays, and occasional early mornings; some travel required.

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Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in career services, talent development or related fields.

• Experience working in or recruiting for investment banking, consulting, technology, or other core MBA-recruiting industries

• Familiarity with career coaching models, assessment tools, and evidence-based advising practices

• Proficiency with career services platforms and student engagement technologies

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Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.