Internship Coordinator

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.