Georgetown Law is seeking a Director of its Externship Program to start on July 1, 2016. The person who is selected for this job will work closely with the experiential education team and play a substantial role in shaping the program. The job description is below. To apply go to Georgetown University's job website and identify job number 20160329.
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Director, Externship Program – Experiential Education
Georgetown Law’s Experiential Education offers three types of learning courses, each designed to help students apply the theories and skills they have learned in the classroom to a real lawyering context – Externships, Practicum Courses, and Clinics.
The Director of the Externship Program administers the largest experiential curricular offering at the Law Center, managing the advising and enrolling students in externships, the evaluating of their placements and learning goals, and monitoring compliance and quality. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Experiential Education, the Director has duties that include but are not limited to:
Advising and Enrolling
- Advises students on the externship program.
- Assists in enrolling students in the externship program.
- Monitors students’ experience during the semester or summer.
- Resolves problem placements or student performance failures.
- Ensures appropriate evaluation of placement and seminar component.
- Assigns students to appropriate seminars.
Instruction Evaluation
- Selects and hires as many as 17 adjunct professors per semester for subject-matter specific externship seminars.
- Assists in developing syllabi.
- Arranges room and time for seminars in advance.
- Conducts periodic site evaluations.
- Ensures training for externship supervisors
- Ensures appropriate evaluation of externship experiences and makes recommendations for continuation.
- Recommends proposals for other experiential offerings based on successful externship experiences.
Compliance and Quality
- Monitors compliance with ABA Externship standards.
- Creates proposals to faculty if changes are needed in the program to accomplish compliance.
- Performs year-end report on externship program.
- Works with experiential education team to ensure that all experiential offerings are excellent and work together seamlessly.
- Interacts on the national level with other externship programs.
- Establishes and monitors best practices for externship program.
Requirements
- J.D. degree
- Experience managing large organizational tasks
- Project management experience
- Preference for knowledge of the DC public interest community and/or some teaching experience
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