Career Development Coordinator

**About Queen's University**

Queen’s University is the Canadian research intensive university with a transformative student learning experience. Here the employment experience is as diverse as it is interesting. We have opportunities in multiple areas of globally recognized research, faculty administration, engineering & construction, athletics & recreation, power generation, corporate shared services, and many more.

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**Job Summary**

This position acts as a point of contact for internship and professional experience programs, and facilitates connections between students, alumni, and potential employers. This position maintains regular communication with students and collaborates with employers and other departments and/or units on job opportunities and/or internships. This position guides employers through the employment partnership hiring process including job postings, company information sessions, interviewing, and tracking offers and acceptances. This position also coordinates and implements events including scheduling, promotion, recruitment, and logistics.

The schedule for this position requires the incumbent to work evenings and weekends.

**What you will do**
- Acts as a point of contact for internship and professional experience programs, and facilitates connections between students, alumni, and potential employers.
- Maintains regular communication with students and collaborates with employers and other departments and/or units on job opportunities and/or internships.
- Guides employers through the employment partnership hiring process including job postings, company information sessions, interviewing, and tracking offers and acceptances.
- Coordinates and implements events including scheduling, promotion, recruitment, and logistics.
- Identifies opportunities to improve program efficiency and new partnerships.
- Develops and implements guidelines, procedures, and processes for existing programs.
- Designs, plans, and coordinates professional experience workshops and events.
- Provides customized job search and career advice to students including career exploration, educating students about internship search, and providing feedback on cover letters, resume, and practice interviews.
- Prepares statistical reports, interprets results for reporting, accountability, and planning.
- Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

**Required Education**
- Four-Year Bachelor Degree or equivalent.
- in business administration preferred or
- in communications preferred or
- in marketing preferred or
- in education preferred

**Required Experience**
- More than 3 years and up to and including 5 years of experience.
- Experience working in a comparable client-focused environment considered an asset.
- Experience planning, coordinating and/or managing events or promotions considered an asset.
- Experience developing, coordinating, and implementing student development and/or student experience programs considered an asset.
- Experience in data, trend analysis and reporting considered an asset.
- Experience working with diverse populations/equity deserving groups considered an asset.
- Experience in writing, interviewing, reviewing, editing and/or proofreading internal and/or external communications and documents considered an asset (e.g., social media, policy manuals, newsletters, handbooks, legal documents, forms/templates, blogs, training/reference materials, technical documents, webinars, etc.).
- Knowledge of advertising and/or sponsorship practices and trends in electronic communications and publications considered an asset.
- Experience advising students considered an asset.
- Experience in database administration/management, design and/or technologies considered an asset (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Oracle/DB2, relational databases, warehoused databases, etc.).
- Experience with providing administrative support considered an asset (e.g., document editing, proofing, formatting and production, data entry, scheduling/coordinating meetings and/or travel arrangements, receiving/relaying messages, etc.).
- Experience with web/graphics/audio/video editing tools is considered an asset.
- Previous experience developing and delivering workshops considered an asset.
- Experience working at a post-secondary education institution considered an asset.
- Familiarity with experiential learning theory considered an asset.

**Required Licenses and Certifications**
- G Driver's License required.

Consideration may be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**Job Knowledge and Requirements**
- Practical and applied knowledge of specialized methods and processes that are typically acquired through a combination of technical or academic qualification and/or work experience.
- Provide consultation and advice on non-straightforward and/or complex issues.
- Interaction with others typically requires interpersonal skills and the ability to understand and i