Professional Experiences Coordinator
Requisition Number:
68688
Location:
Boulder, Colorado
City
Boulder
State
Colorado
Employment Type:
University Staff
Schedule:
Full-Time
Posting Close Date:
30-Nov-2025
Date Posted:
17-Nov-2025
Job Summary
Career Services is committed to enhancing students’ exposure to professional experiences, helping every CU Buff understand their life goals and build confidence in pursuing those goals. The Professional Experiences Coordinator will serve a critical role in supporting currently enrolled students and recent alumni in accessing and participating in work-based learning.
We are looking for an organized and motivated individual who is excited to harness their program coordination strengths to provide experiential learning opportunities that help CU Boulder students to build and articulate their workplace-readiness skills. This position is both administrative and collaborative, partnering internally with a large, dynamic Career Services’ department and externally with campus and employers to provide a variety of programs and services.
From industry-recognized certificates to work simulations to employer-hosted professional projects and startup internship pitch nights, the Professional Experiences Coordinator will be centrally involved in administrating a robust portfolio of offerings – all aimed at building experience and honing competencies.
In addition, this role will be focused on ensuring programming has effective workflows, students know about opportunities and participants have an inviting contact in Career Services who is committed to seeing them successfully navigate experiences meaningful to their professional development.
A successful Professional Experiences Coordinator will be able to identify gaps and meet the needs of Buffs as we serve students both in person and online.
CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Who We Are
The Division of Student Life consists of 30 departments that provide student support and services dedicated to helping students become successful, curious, competent individuals during their time at CU Boulder.
The work in Student Life supports all factors of the student experience, no matter what department a staff member may work in. This includes where students live, eat, make friends, build professional skills and find help if they need it. Many departments provide involvement opportunities, educational resources and support services to help students find their community and build lifelong skills. Student Life also has shared services departments that support the work and staff of our student-facing areas, including areas like center for assessment, insight and research, business services, finance, employee experience, communication and marketing and technology solutions.
Career Services
Career Services prepares CU Boulder students and alumni for their current and future goals through developing skills, facilitating connections and increasing self-knowledge. The team leads a comprehensive career-focused infrastructure for campus through tailored career planning, programs and resources for all colleges as well as providing access to professional experiences for students. Additionally, the department acts as an entry-point for hiring needs while cultivating strong employer partnerships to serve the university.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
Coordinate and help to scale Professional Experiences programming:
- Support and administrate relevant initiatives, programs, and events including Career Academy, Forage, Work Simplr, Startups2Students, LinkedIn Learning, and the Forever Buffs Network mentorship program.
- Identify and provide administration for new initiatives including both in-person and online experiential learning.
- Collaborate with other teams in Career Services to incorporate career education, events, and employers where relevant.
- Develop key resources for students participating in professional experiences including onboarding, offboarding, and professional advice.
- Coordinate with faculty and program administrators to implement professional experience offerings within their courses and services.
- Support the development and growth of professional experience initiatives across campus.
Promote professional experiences to students and recent graduates:
- Leverage campus partners, content, events, and other means to increase awareness and convert students to participants in Career Services’ professional experience offerings.
- Collaborate with key partners to develop materials, both physical and digital, to amplify messaging around professional experiences.
- Through data, narrative, and storytelling, build interest in professional experiences at CU Boulder.
- Identify and execute on promotion at appropriate times for each professional experience, ensuring that all students are presented with the right experiential learning opportunities throughout their pursuit of degrees.
Track and report on participation and outcomes for professional experience offerings:
- Collect data and narrative from students participating in professional experiences.
- Collaborate with the Skills and Experience team to accurately monitor and track participation in professional experiences.
- Determine underlying reasons for successes and areas for improvement in professional experience engagement.
- Work with assessment and Career Services stakeholders to determine correlative or causational outcomes for identifying populations of students who participate in Career Services professional experience offerings.
- Share successes upline, to campus, and where appropriate, externally related to professional experiences.
- Identify populations of students underutilizing professional experiences (i.e. major, first-generation, transfer, first-year, etc.) and take appropriate actions to raise awareness and address identified gaps in experiential learning.
Provide Assistance to the Office of Career Services and Student Life Divisional Needs:
- Participate in training, assist with events such as Career Fairs, Open Houses, and Fall Welcome, and serve on working committees.
- Participate in meetings for the Skills and Experience team and provide support in the pursuit of team goals and initiatives.
- Occasional campus-level and liaison meetings.
- Given the changing nature of work and Career Services’ commitment to be adaptable, innovative, and resilient as the nature of work changes, staff will need to shift gears, jump in, and try new things, even when those things fall outside of a formal job description.
What You Should Know
- This position will work throughout the year under the guidance of full-staff appointments for days off and holidays. The position will follow guidance of Student Life, Career Services, and CU Boulder for a hybrid schedule, currently at 3 days in person per week with 2 days available to work from home.
What We Can Offer
- The salary range for this position is $52,000 - $55,000 per year.
- Onboarding assistance is available within the Student Life division guidelines.
Benefits
At the University of Colorado Boulder, we are committed to supporting the holistic health and well-being of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and retirement plans; generous paid time off; tuition assistance for you and your dependents; and an ECO Pass for local transit. As one of Boulder County’s largest employers, CU Boulder offers an inspiring academic community and access to world-class outdoor recreation. Explore additional perks and programs through the CU Advantage program.
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What We Require
- A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- 1+ years of relevant experience, which can include student work, internships, and volunteer opportunities
- Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
What You Will Need
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in interacting with diverse audiences.
- High degree of customer service including responsiveness, professionalism, and enthusiasm for supporting constituents.
- Resourcefulness and problem solving.
- Program administration and coordination.
- Knowledge of the value of experiential learning and particularly, work-based learning.
- Data collection and reporting.
- Resource development.
- Ability to utilize enterprise systems to coordinate, administer, and/or manage projects and programs.
What We Would Like You to Have
- Experience participating in at least one high impact undergraduate professional experience including internships, research, or on-campus employment.
- Skills in data and analytics related to collecting data, effectively sharing and presenting data, and identifying patterns in data.
- Demonstrated experience proposing, implementing, and administering educational programming.
- Experience promoting and/or marketing products or services.
- Experience in Career Services, Higher Education, and/or workforce development.
Special Instructions
To apply, please submit the following materials:
1. A current resume.2. A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.
We may request references at a later time.
Please apply by November 30, 2025, for consideration.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.
In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
Posting Contact Information
Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources
Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu