Manager, Center for Career and Graduate Success

Workplace Circumstances

• Environment: Educational (schools / universities etc.)
• Languages: English, Khmer
• Location: Phnom Penh

Position Summary

Supervisor: Vice President, Growth & Development

Description: The Manager of the Center for Career & Graduate Success Center provides strategic leadership for student career readiness, internship programs, graduate outcomes, postgraduate pathways, employer recruitment activities, and alumni career engagement.

The Manager is responsible for ensuring that AUPP students and graduates successfully transition into professional careers, further education, and entrepreneurship. The position serves as the University's lead for career development and graduate success initiatives while working closely with the Partnerships Department to convert institutional relationships into meaningful opportunities for students and graduates.

The Manager also serves as the institutional owner of career readiness programs, internship programs, graduate outcomes data, and employability initiatives that support student and graduate success, enrollment growth, accreditation, and university reputation.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership
• Develop and implement AUPP's Career & Graduate Success Strategy.
• Establish annual goals, plans, performance metrics, and assessment measures.
• Develop systems that support career readiness throughout the student lifecycle.
• Prepare annual reports on graduate outcomes and career success initiatives.
• Ensure alignment of career initiatives with university strategic priorities.
• Career readiness & student success through internships and experiential learning
• Design and oversee career readiness programs for students from first year through graduation, especially for third- and fourth-year students.
• Establish career development milestones for each academic year.
• Oversee career coaching, workshops, mentoring initiatives, and professional development activities.
• Develop programs that prepare students for employment, postgraduate education, entrepreneurship, and lifelong career success.
• Identify and proactively engage students who may benefit from additional career support.
• Develop and expand internship opportunities across all academic programs.
• Coordinate internship placement and tracking systems.
• Work with academic departments to increase experiential learning opportunities.
• Ensure quality standards for internships and employer-supervised learning experiences.
• Track internship participation and outcomes.
• Employer engagement & opportunity development
• Serve as the University's lead coordinator for career-related employer engagement.
• Collaborate with the Partnerships Department to leverage existing university partnerships for internships, mentoring, recruitment, industry projects, guest lectures, and experiential learning opportunities.
• Develop relationships with employers specifically for student recruitment, internship placement, mentorship, and career development purposes.
• Organize career fairs, employer information sessions, networking activities, recruiter visits, and industry engagement programs.
• Facilitate employer participation in student career development initiatives.
• Graduate school & professional pathways
• Develop support services for students pursuing Master's, JD, PhD, fellowship, scholarship, and professional certification opportunities.
• Coordinate graduate school preparation programs and application support initiatives.
• Promote international postgraduate pathways and scholarship opportunities.
• Alumni Engagement
• Collaborate with alumni, the AUPP Alumni Association, and university stakeholders to build professional networks to benefit students and graduates.
• Establish alumni mentoring and networking programs.
• Engage alumni as speakers, mentors, recruiters, and industry advisors.
• Support alumni career development and lifelong engagement with the university.
• Graduate outcomes & institutional analytics
• Design and manage graduate destination surveys and outcomes tracking systems.
• Track graduate employment, entrepreneurship, postgraduate study, professional certifications, and other post-graduation outcomes.
• Maintain accurate graduate outcomes databases and reporting systems.
• Produce annual Graduate Outcomes Reports.
• Provide employability and graduate success data for accreditation, rankings, marketing, recruitment, and institutional planning.

Languages

• English - Fluent

Qualifications

• Master's Degree

Work History

• Progressively responsible experience in career services, workforce development, employer engagement, talent development, higher education, recruitment, partnerships, or related fields for 3 to 5 years as a minimum

General & Technical Skills

• Master's degree from an accredited institution.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining external relationships.
• Experience designing programs and initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical, communication, and project management skills.
• Experience in career development, employability, internship management, or student success initiatives.
• Knowledge of graduate outcomes reporting, labor market trends, and workforce development.
• Experience working with employers, industry associations, international organizations, or government stakeholders.