Job Description

Position Summary:

The Career Education Manager is a full-time, year-round position that serves as the Career Center’s lead for career education in the Warner College of Natural Resources (WCNR). The Career Education Manager designs, coordinates, and delivers career curriculum to: educate all CSU students (with a focus on WCNR students) about career paths; engage them in experiential learning opportunities and career planning; prepare them for their job search; and connect them with potential employers. The Career Education Manager establishes and maintains successful relationships with colleagues and employers to lead people toward a common vision of supporting student career readiness, connects multiple offices and departments together to accomplish program goals, maintains relevant industry knowledge, and operates within a framework of building structures and systems to support students in reaching career readiness. This position functions as a key member of the university-wide Career Center and the WCNR Dean’s Office. The role dually reports to the Senior Director of Career Education and Student Success in the Career Center and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in WCNR.

For full consideration, please apply by Friday, December 4, 2026, 11:59 PM (MT).

Description of Work Unit:

The Career Center is part of the Division of Student Affairs with strong and broad-reaching relationships and responsibilities throughout campus, including the academic colleges. Divided into four units (Career Education; Employer Relations; Campus Experiential Learning; and Operations and Assessment), the Career Center not only provides career-related-advising and -services to students, it fills many additional functions critical to the success of the university and students, including, but not limited to, campus-wide career education integration and consulting, campus-wide career fair coordination and job/internship postings, employer relations, institutional career outcome reporting, and student employee development leadership.
 
Warner College of Natural Resources (WCNR) is comprised of five academic departments, with a focus on earth systems and the sustainable use, management, and stewardship of natural resources and the environment. The college is deeply committed to fulfilling the University’s land grant promise of access, and through that effort, playing a significant role in diversifying the fields of natural resources. Enrolling approximately 2,400 total students and in existence for more than a century, WCNR has fostered a tight-knit, passionate sense of community among its dedicated students, faculty, and staff; that spirit of community is integral to the College’s culture and success

Essential Job Duties:

• Develop and lead an inclusive career education strategy tailored to Warner College of Natural Resources (WCNR) students and aligned with Career Center priorities. 
• Design and deliver career programs, workshops, presentations, and events that reflect WCNR students’ interests, identities, and career needs. 

• Build and sustain employer relationships to expand student access to industry insights, career events, internships, jobs, employer visits, and experiential learning. 

• Strengthen partnerships with WCNR faculty, staff, and internship coordinators to integrate career education and connect students with relevant internships and other opportunities. 

• Cultivate relationships with alumni and donors, in collaboration with WCNR partners, to grow the alumni network, create student connections, and support college-to-career initiatives. 

• Advise students individually and in groups on career exploration, job and internship searches, applications, interviewing, negotiation, and graduate school. 

• Develop and maintain career resources, online learning, communications, and WCNR outcome data to inform students, faculty, employers, and other partners. 

• Hire, train, supervise, and evaluate student staff and the WCNR Career Education Coordinator, including managing related HR processes and performance feedback.

Conditions of Employment:

• Pre-employment Criminal Background Check (required for all new hires).

Supervision:

• 1-2 WCNR student ambassadors.

Minimum Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of two years of full-time, relevant experience in career education, career services, career counseling, higher education, natural resources, or related fields.
• Experience managing large-scale programs (one year of professional experience or two years of graduate assistantship experience). 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree.

• Experience in visioning, planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative career programs.

• Understanding of how various identities impact career choices and development.

• Two years of experience providing career-related coaching/advising.

• Experience working in a higher education career services environment.

• Experience working in natural resources or related fields.

• Experience creating and delivering presentations to various stakeholders. 

• Demonstrated ability to build partnerships across a university campus.

• Demonstrated ability to build partnerships with external partners, such as employers or alumni.

• Experience directly supervising professional or student staff (one year of professional experience or two years of graduate assistantship experience).

Additional Information:

• Search contact: Esther Kemp, esther.kemp@colostate.edu.

Salary Range

Required Application Documents

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Background Check Policy Statement

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EEO

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