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.
- Designs and delivers student training supports for internships in other units on request, such as workshops and internship manuals.
- Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.
Required Education
- Four-Year Bachelor Degree or equivalent.
Required Experience
- More than 3 years and up to and including 5 years of experience.
Required Licenses and Certifications
- Satisfactory Criminal Records Check required.
- Vulnerable Sector Screening 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 influence.
- Adapt messages to meet the needs of the intended audience.
- Build relationships, trust and credibility.
- Manage own work and may train and review the work of casual employees, work study students and/or volunteers, to see commitments through to completion.
- Contribute to setting work priorities and direction, supporting the team in achieving goals and objectives.
- Participate in project team meetings and develop individual project plans.
- Lead procedural or technological change within a unit.
- Identify new problems and seek information and input to fully understand the cause of problems.
- Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work processes.
- Draw logical conclusions and provides opinions and recommendations.
- Research equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion resources and best practices relevant to the job and unit operations in order to inform evidence-based planning.
- Commitment to principles of equity, diversity, accessibility, inclusion, Indigenization and human rights for equity deserving groups.
