Purchasing Coordinator
Purchasing Coordinator
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Job Description
ACC Careers: Where You Can Move Mountains
Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains sits one of the oldest community colleges in Colorado Arapahoe Community College. With a rich history of educational excellence ACC embraces a culture that values diversity individualized support and unwavering commitment to student success without exception.
Job Summary
Join a missiondriven institution where your expertise in procurement and compliance can make a lasting impact. Arapahoe Community College is looking for a detailoriented and proactive Procurement & Travel Card Program Coordinator to support critical purchasing operations ensure compliance with state regulations and manage key financial programs that directly support faculty staff and students.
In this role youll evaluate and process purchase requests in alignment with state procurement rules and institutional policies manage both formal and informal solicitations and serve as a key liaison between internal departments and vendors. Youll oversee the colleges travel card program including training audits and issue resolution and assist with the procurement card (Pcard) program and Official Functions processing. This position also involves reconciling discrepancies in purchasing documents maintaining auditready records preparing required reports and fostering crossfunctional collaboration to improve procurement processes and ensure compliance. Your ability to interpret regulations build internal relationships and leverage state price agreements will help drive efficient valueadded purchasing across campus.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Business Administration or other closely related field OR four years of purchasing accounting or business processes experience may substitute for the required degree but will not count towards the experience requirement below.
- Two years of professional purchasing experience.
- Higher education experience or experience managing programs requiring detailed analysis.
- Familiarity with the State of Colorado Procurement and Fiscal Rules.
- Analytical thinking andproblem solvingskills combined with excellent customer service.
- Five years of experience working in higher educationpurchasing.
- Experience managing fleet cardspurchasingcards corporate purchasing or credit cards.
- Experience using Banner and CORE.
Progressive professional experience in procurement accounting or otherbusiness relatedfield thatdemonstratesprogressively increasing professional level work.
Application Instructions
All applicants mustsubmit:
Resume
Detailed letter of interest (cover letter) addressing the job announcement. Please include any experiences you may have embedding equity and inclusion in your work see below.
At ACC weseekto hire candidates thatdemonstratea commitment to and experience with embedding equity and inclusion into their professional role. Please address this specifically in your cover letter explaining what diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) means to you and how you may have incorporated DEI into your current orpreviousprofessional responsibilities.
Reach out to us at if you have any questions.
ACC seeks applicants who understand and have firsthand experience working with diverse populations which may include but are not limited to historically marginalized populations such as people of color LGBTQ community members veterans first generation graduates and people with disabilities.
Notice to all Applicants
- Final candidate will be subject to successful completion of a background check and if applicable a motor vehicle record review.
- Former employees of the Colorado Community College System or one of its 13 colleges who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose this information in their application material.
- Final candidate may be required to submit unofficial transcripts to verify education.
- Direct deposit of payroll is a condition of employment.
- Arapahoe Community College participates in EVerify.
- All ACC employees except student employees contribute to Colorado PERA at a fixed percentage of their earnings and do not contribute to Social Security.
- Finalist must be willing to make Colorado their primary workplace.
CCCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The Colorado Community College System believes when all human qualities are regarded with dignity and respect and when everyone has access to the individualized support they need all will have the opportunity to thrive. In all aspects of the employment process decisions are made based on merit competence performance and business need without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy creed ancestry national origin marital status genetic information military status or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our Accommodations and NonDiscrimination policies plus other helpful information can be found publicly at
Reasonable Accommodation Statement
Arapahoe Community College provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities on a casebycase basis. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process or during the course of employment contact Angela Johnson Executive Director of Human Resources ator .
For information regarding Arapahoe Community College Security including Clery Act / Crime Statistics for the campuses and surrounding area please see the Arapahoe Community College Annual Security Report. For a hard copy report please contact the ACC Campus Police Department at or Room M2600 at 5900 South Santa Fe Drive Littleton Colorado 80120.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
