To provide support to students in work experience placements including internships, coop placements, service learning assignments and community learning activities. As part
of the Career Services team, the Student Placement Officer will contribute to the
development and implementation of a community-based experiential and work-integrated
learning strategy while working in collaboration with the academic schools.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
Facilitate either paid and unpaid placements, including internships and/or co-op
placements and/or assignments for various programs.
Engage with employers in order to develop and foster work integrated learning
opportunities for students.
Design and implement student work-readiness and career development
programming, including resume development, interview preparation workshops, and
job search techniques.
Support students and liaise with faculty throughout the development and
implementation of capstone projects.
Manage a large caseload of students and prepare relevant and supporting written
documentation.
Assist with program promotion, including public speaking and designing written
materials to ensure program growth with both students and employers.
Customize student/employer matches by instituting competency modelling.
Assist organizations with funding applications for provincial and federal funding
opportunities to hire CBU students, where applicable.
Event planning to support initiatives within Career Services and academic schools that
raise the profile of, and opportunities for, student work and experiential learning
experiences.
Support faculty with student placements and develop mentoring supports.
Support faculty who are implementing an experiential or service learning assignment
in their courses.
Assist with program regulation changes that have work-integrated learning.
Support ongoing development of volunteer opportunities for students to build
experiential learning for students and community out