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Are You a Black Professional Exploring Career Options? There Are Many Jobs for You in Higher Ed!
Your unique experiences and skills make you a strong candidate for a higher-education job. Colleges, universities, affiliated hospitals, and research labs value diverse perspectives, including those from Black professionals, to drive innovation and foster student success.
Not interested in teaching? That’s completely fine. Higher education institutions are like small cities, requiring a variety of roles to function smoothly. Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience, there are opportunities for everyone — from entry-level to senior-level positions.
By working in higher ed, you can contribute your expertise in many areas such as administration, IT, finance, or student services. Your talents are crucial in shaping the future and creating a more inclusive and diverse learning environment for all students.
Use these tools and resources to find your ideal job in higher education:
Career Advice
Explore HERC’s career resources to get help with job searching, networking, leadership, and other articles to support you in advancing your career. HERC also offers free ebooks, such as Having Our Say: Black Voices on Working in Higher Education, which dives into the importance of knowing – knowing your “why”, knowing departmental expectations, and knowing the political landscape.
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Our job posters (i.e., colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions) can search for candidates using our resume/CV database. To be included in our resume/CV database, you need to create a job seeker profile, where you can indicate that you’re a United States military veteran.
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Use HERC’s dual career search to find jobs that meet both your and your partner’s job search criteria. Check out a list of institutions with dual career campus programs.
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HERC’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are vital to the present, and future, of the higher education workforce.
Diverse, inclusive institutions generate innovative solutions, develop organizational resiliency, and reflect our increasingly interconnected world. A diverse workforce is a critical component of inclusive higher education communities. Diverse faculty and staff advances academia’s efforts to expand students’ intellectual horizons, catalyze groundbreaking discoveries, incubate social movements, and spark visionary arts. A diverse learning environment also equips students to navigate, and lead, our pluralistic society.
HERC believes a diverse academic workforce deserves an inclusive academic workplace. To that end, HERC works to ensure higher education institutions are sites of belonging, where all faculty and staff can thrive.
HERC defines diversity as including age, ancestry, class, color, disability (mental and physical, including HIV and AIDS), domestic partnership or marital status, educational background, family status, gender identity and expression, genetic information, ethnicity, immigration status, medical condition, military and veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy), sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. We follow the lead of diverse communities and aim to mirror the ever-evolving language they use to define themselves.
Are You a Black Professional Exploring Career Options? There Are Many Jobs for You in Higher Ed!
Your unique experiences and skills make you a strong candidate for a higher-education job. Colleges, universities, affiliated hospitals, and research labs value diverse perspectives, including those from Black professionals, to drive innovation and foster student success.
Not interested in teaching? That’s completely fine. Higher education institutions are like small cities, requiring a variety of roles to function smoothly. Whether you’re just starting out or have years of experience, there are opportunities for everyone — from entry-level to senior-level positions.
By working in higher ed, you can contribute your expertise in many areas such as administration, IT, finance, or student services. Your talents are crucial in shaping the future and creating a more inclusive and diverse learning environment for all students.
Use these tools and resources to find your ideal job in higher education:
Career Advice
Explore HERC Jobs’ career resources to get help with job searching, networking, leadership, and access to other articles to support you in advancing your career. HERC Jobs also offers free ebooks, such as Having Our Say: Black Voices on Working in Higher Education, which dives into the importance of knowing – knowing your “why”, knowing departmental expectations, and knowing the political landscape.
Job Board
Browse job postings or use our search tool to find faculty, staff, and executive positions, including IT, engineering, logistics, mechanical, administrative, and healthcare jobs. Sign up for a free account to apply for jobs and access other tools and resources.
Job Seeker Profile
Our job posters (i.e., colleges, universities, and other higher education institutions) can search for candidates using our resume/CV database. To be included in our resume/CV database, you need to create a job seeker profile, where you can indicate your interests.
Custom Job Alerts
Once you start a free account, you can create a job alert and get an email notification whenever new jobs fitting your criteria are published on HERC Jobs. You can set up multiple job alerts and change or delete them easily.
Dual Career Resources
Use our dual career search to find jobs that meet both your and your partner’s job search criteria. Check out a list of institutions with dual career campus programs.
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“Having Our Say: Black Voices on Working in Higher Education” features advice from black faculty and staff on navigating a career path in higher ed.
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“I was worried there’d be questions about my experience not being up to par with other people. [An admissions director at my institution said], ‘I can train you how to use our system and on admissions speak, but there are certain things I can’t train, like being comfortable working with students or being comfortable presenting in front of a classroom.’ That was helpful and gave me some insight.” – Kayla Patterson, Events and Communications Coordinator, Columbus State Community College
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HERC Jobs is your pathway to a career in higher education, offering a comprehensive job board and free career resources.
A career in higher education provides meaningful, mission-driven work. Colleges, universities, hospitals, research labs, and related organizations seek professionals like you—individuals with diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences—to drive innovation and empower student success.
We serve as a voice for all job seekers, offering insights that encourage and support higher education institutions in creating a thriving and welcoming work environment.
HERC Jobs is administered by the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC), a nonprofit coalition of higher education institutions and affiliated groups committed to expanding the candidate pool and fostering inclusive workplaces.
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