To provide support to students in work experience placements including internships, coop placements, service learning assignments and community learning activities. As partof the Career Services team, the Student Placement Officer will contribute to thedevelopment and implementation of a community-based experiential and work-integratedlearning strategy while working in collaboration with the academic schools.SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES: Facilitate either paid and unpaid placements, including internships and/or co-opplacements and/or assignments for various programs. Engage with employers in order to develop and foster work integrated learningopportunities for students. Design and implement student work-readiness and career developmentprogramming, including resume development, interview preparation workshops, andjob search techniques. Support students and liaise with faculty throughout the development andimplementation of capstone projects. Manage a large caseload of students and prepare relevant and supporting writtendocumentation. Assist with program promotion, including public speaking and designing writtenmaterials 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 fundingopportunities to hire CBU students, where applicable. Event planning to support initiatives within Career Services and academic schools thatraise the profile of, and opportunities for, student work and experiential learningexperiences. Support faculty with student placements and develop mentoring supports. Support faculty who are implementing an experiential or service learning assignmentin their courses. Assist with program regulation changes that have work-integrated learning. Support ongoing development of volunteer opportunities for students to buildexperiential learning for students and community out