Job Details

Career Readiness Coordinator

Position Number: 7259531
Location: Columbus, GA
Position Type: Career Counseling and Placement

Career Readiness Coordinator

Job ID: 300180
Location: Columbus State University
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

About Us

Great universities inspire the very best in us. They nurture new ideas, fresh perspectives, and creative problem-solving. They challenge students to discover their passions - and to turn those passions into thriving careers that improve our world.

Columbus State University is exactly that kind of place. With exceptional facilities, ideal class sizes, and unique field experiences, our students have room to create. Here, every faculty and staff member is part of the educational process, actively mentoring students and championing each new step in their journey.

Located just 100 miles southwest of Atlanta, CSU is part of the University System of Georgia and offers a variety of benefits to full-time benefits-eligible employees and some of our half-time (or more) employees. Benefits that may be elected could include health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, Teachers Retirement System (or Optional Retirement Plan), as well as earned vacation time, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays (if applicable). Also, our full-time employees who have been employed with us successfully for more than 6 months can be considered for the Tuition Assistance Program. Consider applying with us today!

Department Information

Center for Career Coaching

Job Summary

Student Success is identified as the number one strategic priority in Columbus State University's Better Together: 2030 plan. The Career Readiness Coordinator will play a key role in advancing CSU's commitment to ensuring that all students are career ready and able to clearly recognize, develop, and articulate the skills they are gaining through their collegiate experience.

Reporting to the Director of Career Coaching, the Career Readiness Coordinator will be responsible for developing strategies and initiatives that help students identify and articulate the National Association of Colleges and Employers' (NACE) Career Readiness Competencies through both curricular and co-curricular experiences. This position will work collaboratively with faculty, staff, campus partners, student employees, supervisors, and the Center for Career Coaching team to create a campus-wide culture of career readiness.

The Coordinator will support the integration of career readiness language and reflection-based learning across student employment, classroom assignments, co-curricular programming, and campus-wide professional development initiatives. This role will also assist in building institutional literacy around the NACE Career Readiness Competencies so that faculty, staff, and supervisors are equipped to help students connect their academic, employment, leadership, service, and campus engagement experiences to their future career goals.

Responsibilities

Significant Duties & Responsibilities include:
1. Career Readiness Strategy and Competency Integration
Develop and implement strategies that help students identify, develop, and articulate the NACE Career Readiness Competencies through curricular and co-curricular experiences. Create tools, resources, workshops, and reflection-based activities that help students connect classroom learning, campus involvement, leadership roles, student employment, service, internships, and other experiential learning opportunities to career readiness. Collaborate with the Director of Career Coaching to align career readiness initiatives with institutional student success priorities and the Center for Career Coaching's strategic goals.
2. Student Employment Career Readiness Initiatives
Design and provide reflection-based activities for on-campus student employees to help them connect their work experiences to the NACE Career Readiness Competencies. Partner with student employee supervisors to embed career readiness language into the student employment experience and help students better understand how their campus employment builds transferable skills. Develop resources that support student employees in articulating their skills through resumes, interviews, performance conversations, and professional networking.
3. Student Employee of the Year Award and Recognition Ceremony
Coordinate a Student Employee of the Year award process and recognition ceremony. Develop nomination materials, selection criteria, and communication plans that highlight student employees' application of the NACE Career Readiness Competencies. Work with campus supervisors and university partners to identify and celebrate student employees who demonstrate excellence in areas such as communication, teamwork, leadership, professionalism, critical thinking, technology, and career and self-development.
4. Career Champions Network Development
Partner with the Director of Career Coaching to design and launch a Career Champions Network that creates a campus-wide level of literacy, awareness, and adoption of the NACE Career Readiness Competencies. Develop training, resources, and engagement opportunities for faculty, staff, supervisors, and campus partners so they are empowered to help students recognize and articulate the skills they are developing through academic and co-curricular experiences. Support ongoing communication and engagement with Career Champions across campus.
5. Faculty Support and Curricular Integration
Assist in designing and delivering programming that supports faculty in using the NACE Career Readiness Competencies through course assignment mapping, syllabus integration, and instruction-based articulation activities. Collaborate with faculty to identify where career readiness competencies naturally align with course outcomes, assignments, projects, presentations, research, clinical experiences, labs, fieldwork, and other learning activities. Provide practical examples and resources that help faculty make career readiness more visible and explicit to students.
6. Program Development, Communication, and Resource Creation
Develop workshops, presentations, toolkits, guides, and digital resources that promote career readiness and competency articulation across campus. Support communication campaigns that increase awareness of the NACE Career Readiness Competencies among students, faculty, staff, and supervisors. Collaborate with the Center for Career Coaching team to ensure career readiness messaging is consistent across programs, platforms, events, and student-facing resources.
7. Assessment, Data Collection, and Reporting
Track participation, engagement, learning outcomes, and program impact related to career readiness initiatives, student employment activities, faculty support, and the Career Champions Network. Collect feedback from students, faculty, supervisors, and campus partners to improve programs and resources. Prepare reports and summaries that demonstrate the value and effectiveness of career readiness initiatives and support continued improvement.

Required Qualifications

Required Qualifications include: Master's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.; Two or more years of experience in career development, student success, higher education, academic advising, student employment, faculty development, training, human resources, or a related field.; Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.; Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with faculty, staff, students, and campus partners.; Familiarity with career readiness, student learning outcomes, experiential learning, reflection-based learning, or competency-based education.; Ability to design and deliver workshops, presentations, and professional development sessions.; Strong organizational and project management skills.; Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.; Proficiency with technology platforms used for communication, presentations, data tracking, and resource development.; A demonstrated commitment to supporting student success and career readiness.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications include: Familiarity with the National Association of Colleges and Employers' Career Readiness Competencies.; Experience working with college students or student employees.; Experience developing training materials or educational programming.; Experience supporting faculty or staff professional development.; Experience using platforms such as Handshake, LinkedIn, SteppingBlocks, Banner, learning management systems, or other student success and career development technologies.

Proposed Salary

The proposed annualized salary for this position is $60,000 and includes full benefits.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, please contact Patrick Keebler, Hiring Manager, via email at keebler_patrick@columbusstate.edu.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Institutional Values

Excellence: Actively engaging outstanding methods in teaching, academic discovery, creative pursuits, student success, cultural enrichment and the overall campus community.
Creativity: Pursuing distinction through inquiry and innovation, challenging convention and focusing on solutions.
Engagement: Dynamic civic involvement and participation of students, faculty, staff and alumni in the university experience.
Sustainability: Advancing fiscal responsibility, well-being, innovation, lifelong learning and environmental stewardship.
Inclusion: Cultivating and championing a campus environment that welcomes diverse backgrounds, ideas, perspectives and practices.
Servant Leadership: Leading through ethical empowerment and service.

Conditions of Employment

All selected candidates are required to submit and successfully pass a background investigation to include reference checks and verification of academic credentials (if applicable). Other additional requirements may be required based upon specific position duties:

A credit check completed for Positions of Trust and or approved departmental Purchase Card usage;
Pre-employment drug testing for positions with high-risk responsibilities.
Motor vehicle reports are required for positions that are required to drive a Columbus State University fleet vehicle or other vehicle designated as a fleet vehicle. A successful drug screening will be required as a condition of employment a randomly thereafter.

*Applicants for positions of trust may be asked to disclose criminal record history during the initial screening process and prior to a conditional offer of employment. *

For Faculty Hires: Final candidates will be required to provide proof of completed academic degree(s) as well as post-secondary coursework in the form of original transcript(s). Those candidates trained by a foreign institution will also be required to provide an educational/credential evaluation.

All employees are responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of sensitive information by exercising sound judgment and adhering to cybersecurity and privacy policies during their employment and beyond. Additionally, all members of the USG community must adhere to the USG Statement of Core Values must also be aware of and comply with the Board of Regents policies on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Columbus State University is proud to be an equal employment, equal access, and equal educational opportunity institution. It is the policy of our institution to recruit, hire, train, promote and educate persons without regard to race, color, national or ethnical origin, age, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or veteran status as required by applicable state and federal laws.

Other Information

This position may require occasional evening or weekend hours to support career readiness programming, student employee recognition events, faculty development sessions, campus-wide workshops, and Center for Career Coaching initiatives.
Ability to travel as needed.
As part of their everyday job duties, the individual hired may be asked to support career readiness instruction, presentations, workshops, or classroom-based activities connected to first-year experience, student employment, faculty development, or other campus-wide career readiness initiatives.

Background Check

Position of Trust + Education

Special Applicant Instructions

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