Career and Business Development Coordinator

The Career and Business Development Coordinator plays a key role in supporting student success, graduate employment, and employer engagement for Arclabs Welding School. The position connects graduates with employment and training opportunities, develops and maintains relationships with hiring partners, supports new student orientation, tracks student progress through graduation, and documents student outcomes.

This position provides individualized job-placement support, employer outreach, internship development, career-readiness programming, alumni follow-up, and business-development activity. The coordinator works with students, graduates, employers, and internal teams to strengthen placement opportunities and support successful transitions from training into employment.

The Career and Business Development Coordinator is also responsible for maintaining accurate placement and outcome documentation in support of accreditation and institutional requirements. The position is expected to support an 80% completion rate and an 85% placement rate for program graduates, while maintaining awareness of accreditation benchmarks of at least 67% completion and 70% training-related job placement.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in new student orientation and provide ongoing student support throughout the program to promote successful completion and career readiness.
• Track student progress through graduation and collaborate with academic and administrative staff to identify and address student-success needs.
• Provide individualized job-placement assistance to graduates, including employment leads, follow-up, and support aligned with each graduate’s skills and employment goals.
• Conduct job-readiness interviews with graduates to assess skills, employment goals, readiness, and appropriate placement opportunities.
• Facilitate resume-building sessions, employability workshops, interview preparation, and other career-readiness activities.
• Identify graduate employment opportunities through company visits, networking, employer outreach, online resources, and job-board postings.
• Conduct regular outreach to employers to maintain, strengthen, and expand hiring partnerships and training-related placement opportunities.
• Coordinate weekly job site visits and maintain appropriate documentation of employer outreach and business-development activity.
• Conduct employer satisfaction surveys and use feedback to support continuous improvement of career services and employer relationships.
• Develop internship opportunities for the student body and achieve a goal of at least ten (10) internship opportunities per year.
• Plan, coordinate, and host three (3) Career Fairs annually to connect students and graduates with employers and employment opportunities.
• Maintain current student and graduate placement records in internal systems and student files, including employment outcomes and supporting documentation.
• Maintain student and alumni contact records and support ongoing communication and follow-up with graduates.
• Assist graduates seeking to re-enter programs or update their skills and support returning students through applicable re-enrollment and training-update processes.
• Maintain documentation and prepare reports required for accreditation, compliance reviews, institutional reporting, and student-outcome tracking.
• Collaborate with academic, administrative, and campus staff to verify student completion and placement outcomes and resolve documentation gaps.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of career services, business-development, student-success, internship, and employer-engagement initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Performance Expectations & Role Allocation

• Maintain an 80% student completion rate and an 85% graduate placement rate as institutional performance expectations.
• Maintain awareness of accreditation benchmarks that typically require at least a 67% completion rate and a 70% job placement rate in training-related positions.
• Allocate work activities approximately as follows: 60% employer and community outreach/business development, 20% student and graduate engagement, and 20% administrative, documentation, and reporting responsibilities.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, and professional communication skills for working with students, graduates, employers, and community partners.
• Ability to develop and maintain employer relationships and identify employment, internship, and training opportunities.
• Ability to provide individualized career guidance, conduct job-readiness interviews, and facilitate resume and employability workshops.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to balance outreach, student engagement, documentation, reporting, and event coordination.
• Ability to maintain accurate student and graduate records and consistently document placement, employer, and outreach activity.
• Ability to prepare reports and maintain documentation in support of accreditation, compliance, and institutional performance requirements.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with academic, administrative, and campus teams to support student completion and placement outcomes.
• Ability to work independently in the field, conduct employer and job site visits, and represent Arclabs professionally in the community.
• Ability to use internal systems, online job resources, and standard office technology to manage contacts, opportunities, records, and reports.
• Strong follow-through, customer-service orientation, and commitment to student and graduate success.