Career Readiness Coordinator

Career Readiness Coordinator
Columbus State University – Center for Career Coaching
Location: Columbus, GA
Salary: $60,000 annually, plus full benefits
Position Type: Full-Time

Position Overview
Columbus State University’s Center for Career Coaching is seeking a Career Readiness Coordinator to help students recognize, develop, and articulate the skills they are gaining through their academic, employment, leadership, service, and co-curricular experiences.

Reporting to the Director of Career Coaching, the Career Readiness Coordinator will support campus-wide initiatives that advance student success and career readiness. This position will focus on integrating the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Career Readiness Competencies into student employment, classroom learning, faculty partnerships, workshops, and professional development efforts.

Position Responsibilities
The Career Readiness Coordinator will:

• Develop tools, workshops, resources, and reflection-based activities that help students connect their experiences to career readiness competencies.
• Support on-campus student employees in identifying and articulating transferable skills gained through their work experiences.
• Partner with student employee supervisors to embed career readiness language into the student employment experience.
• Coordinate the Student Employee of the Year award process and recognition ceremony.
• Assist in designing and launching a Career Champions Network for faculty, staff, supervisors, and campus partners.
• Support faculty in integrating career readiness competencies into course assignments, syllabi, projects, presentations, labs, fieldwork, and other learning activities.
• Create presentations, guides, toolkits, and digital resources that promote career readiness across campus.
• Track participation, collect feedback, assess program impact, and prepare reports that support continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications
Candidates should have:

• Master’s degree or an 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.
• Ability to work collaboratively with students, faculty, staff, supervisors, 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 at the same time.
• Proficiency with technology used for communication, presentations, data tracking, and resource development.
• Commitment to supporting student success and career readiness.

Preferred Qualifications
Preferred candidates may also have:

• Familiarity with the NACE Career Readiness Competencies.
• Experience working with college students or student employees.
• Experience developing training materials, workshops, 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.

Additional Information
This position may require occasional evening or weekend hours to support career readiness programming, student employee recognition events, faculty development sessions, workshops, and Center for Career Coaching initiatives. Occasional travel may also be required.

How to Apply
Interested applicants should apply through Columbus State University’s online Careers portal.

For more information, please contact Patrick Keebler | keebler_patrick@columbusstate.edu.