Purchasing Coordinator

Department Information

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.

Description of Job

Job Summary

Arapahoe Community College is seeking a detail-oriented and service-focused Purchasing Coordinator to support the procurement of goods and services across the college. This role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with State procurement rules while helping departments efficiently meet their purchasing needs.

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Purchasing, the Purchasing Coordinator serves as a campus resource and subject-matter expert for purchasing methods, systems, and workflows. The role balances hands-on transactional work with analysis, vendor coordination, training, and continuous improvement—all in a collaborative, customer-focused environment.

This position is ideal for a purchasing professional who enjoys problem-solving, working cross-functionally, and helping organizations maximize value while maintaining regulatory integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and process procurements by evaluating purchase requests, determining appropriate procurement methods, and ensuring compliance with State rules, CCCS requirements, and internal policies.
• Manage competitive solicitations and vendor interactions, including documented quotes, researching products, evaluating bids, and communicating outcomes.
• Administer purchasing programs and systems, including oversight of the travel card program, support of the purchasing card program, official function requests, and maintenance of accurate procurement records.
• Provide college-wide support, training, and customer service by advising faculty and staff on procurement processes, delivering training, and collaborating on purchasing projects.
• Analyze spending and support planning efforts through expenditure analysis, cost-saving recommendations, reporting, audits, and participation in the annual budgeting process.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent combination of education and/or relevant purchasing experience. The equivalency will not count towards the experience requirements listed below.
• Relevant purchasing experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Ability to identify problems, determine accuracy and relevancy of information, and use sound judgement to evaluate and make recommendations.
• Ability to organize work, set priorities, determine resource requirements, coordinate with other areas, monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes.

Supplemental Information

Application Instructions

All applications must be submitted at https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/arapahoecc

All applicants must submit:

• 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, we seek to hire candidates who are committed to fostering respectful, welcoming, and supportive environments for all individuals. In your cover letter, please describe how you have worked to create such environments in your current or previous roles, and share what this commitment means to you in your professional practice

Reach out to us at HRrecruitment@arapahoe.edu if you have any questions.

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 E-Verify.
• 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.

Benefits

At ACC, we value and uphold a commitment to a workplace that focuses on employees. Our mission is to provide innovative and responsive educational and economic opportunities in an accessible, inclusive environment that promotes success for students, employees, and the communities we serve. In addition to rewarding and meaningful work, we offer a comprehensive selection of benefits to support our employees, including:

• Strong, flexible retirement benefits including Colorado PERA’s Defined Benefit Plan or Defined Contribution Plan. A Supplemental retirement plans are also available including 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and flexible savings benefits.
• Employee assistance services such as counseling, professional coaching, financial planning, and more, are available to you and members of your household at no cost through the Colorado State Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP).
• Generous paid time off benefits including up to 15 hours of annual leave and 10 hours of sick leave per month, 10 paid holidays per year, and up to 18 hours for academic and volunteer activities.
• Tuition assistance for employees and their eligible dependents at any community college within the Colorado Community College System or CCCOnline.
• State employees are eligible to participate in BenefitHub which offers discounts for retailers and services and other benefits resources.
• Employees may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Additional information about this program can be found on the Colorado Division of Human Resources website.
• New hires for full-time positions may be eligible for a relocation assistance benefit if relocating at least 100 miles to work at ACC. Information about this can be found in AP 3-160.

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 Non-Discrimination policies, plus other helpful information, can be found publicly at arapahoe.edu

Reasonable Accommodation Statement

Arapahoe Community College provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities on a case-by-case 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, at (303) 797-5715 or angela.johnson@arapahoe.edu.

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 (303) 797-5800, campus.police@arapahoe.edu, or Room M2600 at 5900 South Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, Colorado 80120.