Description of Work Unit
Founded in 1870, Colorado State University is among the nation’s leading research universities and enrolls approximately 32,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Located an hour north of the Denver metro area, Fort Collins is a vibrant community of approximately 157,000 residents that offers the convenience of a small town with all the amenities of a large city. Fort Collins is situated on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains with views of 14,000 foot peaks, and offers access to numerous cultural, recreational, and outdoor opportunities.
The Career Center is part of the Division of Student Affairs with strong and broad-reaching relationships and responsibilities throughout campus, including the academic colleges. Divided into three units (Career Education; Employer Connections; and Operations), the Career Center not only provides career-related-advising and -services to students, it fills many additional functions critical to the success of the university and students, including, but not limited to, campus-wide career fair coordination and job/internship postings, employer relations, institutional career outcome reporting, and student employment leadership.
The Career Center is responsible to a variety of internal and external stakeholders and leverages those relationships to help students investigate the many available professional opportunities with special consideration for finding paths that meet their skills, goals, values, and unique identities. The Career Center proudly embraces and upholds the CSU Principles of Community: inclusion, integrity, respect, service, and social justice. The Career Center offers the option to work remotely for up to two days per week, pushes for a healthy work/life balance, and provides professional development funding. CSU offers generous benefits including tuition remission at the graduate school level. Please apply to join our large, dynamic, collaborative, equity-minded, and authentic team!
Position Summary
The Employer Relations Coordinator is a full-time position responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with employers recruiting CSU students for jobs and internships. The Employer Relations Coordinator creates employer outreach strategies that meet the needs of students while balancing the needs of employers and multiple industries. This position leverages the Career Center’s Rams Recruitment Services Program to create effective recruitment packages for employers, facilitates recruitment intake, strategy, and reflection meetings, manages the asks and invoices of these packages, and follows through on coordinating events, branding, messaging, and other recruitment services. The Employer Relations Coordinator will demonstrate a commitment to valuing social justice and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment through employer education and event planning.
This position leverages relationships with key campus partners including other Career Center staff to ensure commitments to employers are executed and the employers’ recruitment goals are reached. This position supports other Career Center events and programming such as Career Fairs, industry-focused events, site visits, panels, and more. The Employer Relations Coordinator reports directly to the Director of Employer Relations and serves as a key member of the university-wide Career Center and participates in all Career Center activities.
The Career Center proudly embraces and upholds the CSU Principles of Community: inclusion, integrity, respect, service, and social justice. The Career Center offers the option to work remotely for up to two days per week, pushes for a healthy work/life balance, and provides professional development funding. CSU offers generous benefits including tuition remission at the graduate school level. Please apply to join our large, dynamic, collaborative, equity-minded, and authentic team!
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EEO Statement
Colorado State University is committed to providing an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based on race, age, creed, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or pregnancy in its employment, programs, services and activities, and admissions, and, in certain circumstances, marriage to a co-worker. The University will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Colorado State University is an equal opportunity and equal access institution and affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce and complies with all Federal and Colorado State laws, regulations, and executive orders regarding non-discrimination and affirmative action. The Office of Equal Opportunity is located in 101 Student Services.
The Title IX Coordinator is the Director of the Office of Title IX Programs and Gender Equity, 123 Student Services Building, Fort Collins, CO 80523-0160, (970) 491-1715, titleix@colostate.edu.
The Section 504 and ADA Coordinator is the Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity, 101 Student Services Building, Fort Collins, CO 80523-0160, (970) 491-5836, oeo@colostate.edu.
The Coordinator for any other forms of misconduct prohibited by the University’s Policy on Discrimination and Harassment is the Vice President for Equity, Equal Opportunity and Title IX, 101 Student Services Building, Fort Collins, Co. 80523-0160, (970) 491-5836, oeo@colostate.edu.
Any person may report sex discrimination under Title IX to the Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education.
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