Coordinator, Employment Services

Student Employment Coordinator

This position coordinates full-cycle student employment processes, including job postings, hiring actions, and background checks, ensuring compliance with university policies and applicable federal and state regulations, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The role supports recruitment operations by overseeing hiring workflows from posting through onboarding, promoting efficient, consistent, and compliant practices across the employment lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Executes full-cycle processing of student employment transactions, overseeing all stages pre-employment processing through hire. Reviews and approves hiring actions, background checks and hiring requests to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with university policies and applicable federal and state employment regulations, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
• Partners with Talent Acquisition in review and approval of student postings, to ensure job content accuracy and alignment, compliance to university policy, as well as state and federal guidelines, equitable compensation, consistent posting structure and candidate experience, system and workflow efficiency.
• Coordinates the candidate communications process, providing timely updates on application status and ensuring a positive and consistent candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
• Coordinates and supports end-to-end recruitment workflow efficiency from job posting through candidate hire, ensuring timely progression of requisitions and minimizing delays across all stages of the hiring lifecycle. Monitors workflow activity within the applicant tracking system, identifies bottlenecks, and collaborates with Talent Acquisition and Talent Fulfillment to implement process improvements and ensure consistent, compliant execution.
• Conducts initial screening activities for entry-level and early career roles, including applicant review and preparation of Pay Evaluator assessments to ensure candidates meet required criteria.
• Conducts research on recruitment campaigns and analyzes prospect data to support targeted recruitment strategies in collaboration with Talent Acquisition Specialists.
• Plans and supports student recruitment-related events to enhance organizational visibility, engagement, and pipeline development, as it relates to on-campus student employment.
• Reviews and processes employment-related transactions, including background checks, Graduate Electronic Personnel Action Forms (ePAFs), and Graduate Assistant (GA) position descriptions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with institutional guidelines and federal and state regulations, including FLSA requirements where applicable.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree with no specific discipline. and 2 years of experience in human resources with an emphasis in employment services.

Substitution allowed for Experience: When a candidate has the required education, but lacks the required experience, they may normally apply additional appropriate education toward the experience requirement, at a rate of one (1) year relevant education per year of required experience.

Contract Type

Continuing

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