Employer Engagement Manager – HigherEdJobs

Salary: $58,680.46 – $63,783.11 Annually

Location: Various SLCC locations, UT

Job Type: Exempt Full Time

Job Number: 202500824

Division: Student Affairs

Department: Career Services

Closing Date: 5/20/2026 11:59 PM Mountain

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

All employees are expected to maintain a permanent residence within the State of Utah as a condition of employment. New employees must provide a valid Utah residential address within 30 days of their start date.

Job Summary

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is seeking an Employer Engagement Manager to lead and coordinate strategic employer partnerships that expand career-connected opportunities for students. This role focuses on building and sustaining relationships with industry partners to support internships, work-based learning, and post-graduation employment, with an initial emphasis on supporting First-Generation Students. The position plays a key role in strengthening high school-to-college-to-career pathways, and early college students by aligning employer needs with student interests and academic programs, particularly in financial services, skilled trades, and healthcare.

The Employer Engagement Manager reports to the Director of Career Services and works collaboratively across Career Services, SLCC Workforce Services, the Development Office/SLCC Foundation, and key academic areas, including the Gail Miller Business School, Salt Lake Technical College (Salt Lake Tech), and the School of Health Sciences (though not limited to these areas). This is not a fundraising role. Instead, it centers on employer engagement, partnership development, and aligning workforce needs with career development to advance equitable student outcomes and economic mobility.

This position is a two-year, grant-funded temporary role, contingent upon continued funding.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities & Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Develop and manage (and help coordinate existing)employer partnerships in the financial services, trades, and healthcare sectors that support student workforce pathways.
• Coordinate industry-supported opportunities such as internships, paid work experiences, apprenticeships, and early-career placements for students.
• Support the creation of workforce pipelines for students beginning at high school graduation, continuing during college enrollment, and extending into post-completion employment.
• Collaborate with SLCC Workforce Services, Career Services, and Salt Lake Tech to align employer needs with academic and technical programs.
• Nurture, secure, and sustain sponsored-tuition relationships with employer partners interested in hiring SLCC students and promoting incumbent employees within their organization.
• Assist with the coordination of employer engagement teams and cross-functional meetings focused on strengthening a coordinated approach to intra-organizational employer partner relationship development and management.
• Assist with tracking and organizing employer partnership data to support continuity, accountability, and long-term collaboration.
• Contribute to data-informed planning related to workforce outcomes, student placement, and partnership effectiveness.
• Serve as an external-facing representative of SLCC in conversations with employers and industry partners.
• Support the development of scalable partnership models that can be expanded across sectors and campuses.
• This person must be self-motivated and great with data and technology
• Experience supporting first-generation, low- to moderate-income, or historically underserved student populations.
• Experience coordinating cross-sector partnerships involving education and industry.
• Experience with data
• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Ability to work with all groups from a variety of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 2-5 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• Experience collaborating with colleges and/or technical programs

SLCC Information

Salt Lake Community College is Utah’s largest open-access college in the state. We proudly educate 45,000+ students pursuing degrees in 100+ programs across 8 areas of study, and Utah’s fastest growing industries and four-year baccalaureate programs consistently welcome SLCC graduates. Every SLCC employee has a hand in transforming students’ lives to strengthen its surrounding communities. SLCC employees work at 8 locations across the valley and capital city of Salt Lake with easy access to the beautiful Wasatch Mountains, world-class outdoor recreation, sporting events, museums, history, and arts and entertainment.

Salt Lake Community College seeks and values contributions from each community member and welcomes new perspectives. A respectful work environment is its top priority; academic excellence and lasting transformation occurs when we can collaborate freely. As an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution, SLCC leads the state with the highest enrollment of students from the Latinx/a/o community. SLCC is committed to serving students and being a model for inclusive and transformative education.

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is fully committed to policies of equal employment and nondiscrimination. The College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, religion, protected veteran status, expression of political or personal beliefs outside of the workplace, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

SLCC is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). In addition to URS, SLCC offers several other retirement account options.

This position is subject to a successful completion of a criminal background check.