Careers At UNC

Employment Opportunities

UNC Classified Vacancies: To view UNC vacancies, scroll down to University of Northern Colorado and select the arrow to show current positions available. Applications must be submitted by the ‘apply by’ date as instructed in the announcement.

Job Evaluation and Compensation

Applicants and current employees can visit the following sites to find information on Class Descriptions, Job Minimum Qualifications, and Compensation Plans for the State of Colorado Classified positions.

• Class Descriptions & Minimum Qualifications
• Compensation Plan

Conditions of Employment

• All candidates who are extended an offer of employment must complete and pass a background check. Some positions, depending on the job duties will need to complete a physical evaluation to be hired.
• All new-hires must be able to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States within 3 days of hire.
• All Employees are required to have direct deposit of your paycheck.
• For positions requiring a degree, candidates must provide original transcripts within 30 days of hire.

Employment Opportunities

Faculty contracts are of three types and are denominated term, tenure-track, and tenure.   Academic ranks used for faculty consist of lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor, and rank(s) associated with special status.  UNC requires original college transcripts to be submitted within 30 days of job offer and conducts educational verifications for faculty positions.

All Faculty position require completion of the online application. Unless otherwise stated, all application materials are to be submitted through our job portal.

International Candidates

In addition to all other requirements for a contract, faculty or staff who are not holders of American passports or Legal Permanent Residents will require immigration paperwork. Depending on the country involved, this could take up to 90 days for processing. For any country other than Canada, please contact the Human Resources Department to find the current requirements.

Conditions of Employment

All candidates who are extended an offer of employment must complete and pass a background check. Some positions, depending on the job duties will need to complete a physical evaluation to be hired. All new-hires must be able to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States within 3 days of hire. All Employees are required to have direct deposit of your paycheck.
For positions requiring a degree, candidates must provide original transcripts within 30 days of hire.

Employment Opportunities

Professional Administrative Staff position require completion of the online application. Unless otherwise stated, all application materials are to be submitted through our job portal.

International Candidates

In addition to all other requirements for a contract, faculty or staff who are not holders of American passports or Legal Permanent Residents will require immigration paperwork. Depending on the country involved, this could take up to 90 days for processing. For any country other than Canada, please contact the Human Resources Department to find the current requirements.

Conditions of Employment

• All candidates who are extended an offer of employment must complete and pass a background check. Some positions, depending on the job duties will need to complete a physical evaluation to be hired.
• All new-hires must be able to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States within 3 days of hire.
• All Employees are required to have direct deposit of your paycheck.
• For positions requiring a degree, candidates must provide original transcripts within 30 days of hire.

Employment Opportunities

The Office of Student Employment at UNC is a part of the Office of Financial Aid and serves students seeking employment on and off campus during the academic year and summer term.

Please visit Financial Aid to learn more about opportunities for student employment.

Student Employee Leave Programs

Student employees are not eligible to receive paid vacation leave, holiday pay, shift differential, unemployment compensation, or university closing leave pay. Students are also not eligible to receive
compensation while attending jury duty from the University; however, the department can opt to pay
scheduled hours for jury duty if their budget allows.

Effective 1/1/2021 in accordance with Healthy Families and Workplace Act, all student employees will
accrue sick leave. Colorado Senate Bill 20-205 requires all employers with 16 or more employees to offer paid sick leave in the amount of one hour for every 30 hours worked, to a maximum of 48 hours per year. Up to 48 hours of unused sick leave will roll over to the next year and unused leave will not be paid out. An employer may satisfy the accrual requirements by providing employees with sick leave that meets or
exceeds these requirements. Federal regulations prohibit institutions from utilizing Federal Work-Study
funding to cover fringe benefits, including student sick leave. Consequently, any sick leave taken by students under the Federal Work-Study program must be paid out of individual departmental budgets.

FAMLI

Colorado implemented FAMLI in January 2024 which provides paid family medical leave for eligible Colorado residents. Most Colorado employees become eligible to take paid leave after they have earned at least $2,500 in wages subject to FAMLI premiums, over a period of about a year. UNC has chosen SunLife as our private FAMLI plan administrator. Employees interested in applying for FAMLI benefits will need to apply through SunLife. FAMLI is designed to run concurrently with FMLA. If FAMLI leave is used for a reason that also qualifies as leave under FMLA, then the leave also counts as FMLA leave.

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