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HR Coordinator roles are among the more accessible entry points for F-1 OPT students in human resources, with many employers already familiar with sponsoring work authorization. Most positions require a degree in HR, business, or a related field, and your 12-month OPT window is typically enough time to demonstrate value and pursue H-1B visa sponsorship.
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- The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
ALL ABOUT TARGET
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
ALL ABOUT FOOD AND BEVERAGE
You support all aspects of a profitable food and beverage business that has one purpose: to help all families discover the joy of everyday life.
You utilize your industry knowledge to influence store leaders to execute food and beverage strategies and processes in store.
You coach and train store leaders to become experts of their areas to consistently deliver sales growth through a clean, fresh and rewarding experience for their teams and guests.
You elevate the Target brand across food by providing market level expertise to execute and amplify key seasons, holidays, and events.
At Target we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Food & Beverage Coordinator can provide you with the skills and experiences of:
- Guest service fundamentals and experience building a freshness and reliability culture in food and beverage areas across a multi-unit market of stores
- Food and beverage business fundamentals, including department sales trends, freshness, food safety and quality, inventory management, product and service reliability, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
- Awareness of competitors; leveraging guest insights to influence store leadership and food teams to drive business initiatives
- Influencing in-store food and beverage processes and leverage food expertise to support business priorities and deliver on sales goals
- Assessing daily business performance and provide store leaders guidance to drive efficiencies in food and beverage departments through in-store walks
- Learning how to prepare for and help stores execute holiday and event plans in a competitive retail environment to build on year over year growth
As a Food & Beverage Coordinator, you are responsible for the business performance of your respective districts in your market. These responsibilities include:
- Support operations, strategies, and food processes in assigned stores by coaching, teaching, and training.
- Partner with field and store leadership, Store Operations, Merchandising, and other stakeholder groups to support and advocate for projects to champion food and grow profitable sales.
- Evaluate, educate, and improve store conditions, guest experience, operational efficiency, waste reduction, and profitable sales through expertise.
- Leverage reporting to evaluate performance in sales, markdowns, inventory productivity, food safety, and other measures.
- Maintain industry knowledge and market trends by benchmarking competitor pricing, promotions, merchandising practices, and processes.
- Utilize innovation, critical thinking, communication, and store partnership to understand and influence future seasons and events with your insight and expertise.
- Represent stores and food operations in advocating for locally requested food items the guest is looking for, including new items, holiday merchandising, and competitor merchandising benchmarking.
- Influence and provide thoughtful feedback to key store and field partners (Team Leaders, ETLs, SDs, and district leadership).
- Utilize your industry knowledge to influence store leaders to execute food and beverage strategies and processes in store.
- Lead and create a service culture utilizing tools and routines that model, train, and coach behavioral expectations to deliver the service standard.
- Ensure execution through detailed training and education of store leadership teams and food and beverage experts, including ordering and managing inventory and supplies, merchandising, freshness, food safety, sampling, and other store-controlled processes.
- Support guest service and profitable sales by assisting stores with guest-centric scheduling and training.
- Encourage and deliver a fresh and safe experience through reinforcing food safety processes, training teams to integrate food safety, product rotation, cleaning and sanitation, and freshness into everyday processes.
- Partner with Stores and Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Vendors to drive DSD sales through on-shelf availability and operational efficiency.
- Partner with Starbucks and Pizza Hut field leaders to drive sales through guiding brand standard execution and operational efficiencies.
- Maintain compliance with policies and procedures defined by all regulatory agencies.
- Challenge teams to develop staffing and contingency plans that ensure coverage and maintain production and service capabilities.
- Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance; lead team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.
- Support Target’s safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, empowering store leaders to correct and/or escalate hazards, and holding team accountable to safety policies, best practices, and training.
- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
- All other duties based on business needs.
The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Food & Beverage Coordinator. But there are a few skills you should have from the get-go:
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of food and beverage experience
- Proven execution skills and ability to drive change
- Operate in an ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment
- Quickly adapt to changing priorities and tasks
- Project and process management/ownership experience
- Work in high intensity situations with composure and ease
- Solution-based mindset with desire to uncover business gaps and solve problems
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Build strong partnerships with key partners
We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:
- Experience leading stores or supporting field organization
- Training experience
- Supervisory experience
- Strong leadership and influencing skills
- Should live in or within driving distance of assigned district market area
- Must be able to travel in assigned district market area
Target will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco and City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
COMPENSATION
- The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
ALL ABOUT TARGET
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
ALL ABOUT FOOD AND BEVERAGE
You support all aspects of a profitable food and beverage business that has one purpose: to help all families discover the joy of everyday life.
You utilize your industry knowledge to influence store leaders to execute food and beverage strategies and processes in store.
You coach and train store leaders to become experts of their areas to consistently deliver sales growth through a clean, fresh and rewarding experience for their teams and guests.
You elevate the Target brand across food by providing market level expertise to execute and amplify key seasons, holidays, and events.
At Target we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Food & Beverage Coordinator can provide you with the skills and experiences of:
- Guest service fundamentals and experience building a freshness and reliability culture in food and beverage areas across a multi-unit market of stores
- Food and beverage business fundamentals, including department sales trends, freshness, food safety and quality, inventory management, product and service reliability, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
- Awareness of competitors; leveraging guest insights to influence store leadership and food teams to drive business initiatives
- Influencing in-store food and beverage processes and leverage food expertise to support business priorities and deliver on sales goals
- Assessing daily business performance and provide store leaders guidance to drive efficiencies in food and beverage departments through in-store walks
- Learning how to prepare for and help stores execute holiday and event plans in a competitive retail environment to build on year over year growth
As a Food & Beverage Coordinator, you are responsible for the business performance of your respective districts in your market. These responsibilities include:
- Support operations, strategies, and food processes in assigned stores by coaching, teaching, and training.
- Partner with field and store leadership, Store Operations, Merchandising, and other stakeholder groups to support and advocate for projects to champion food and grow profitable sales.
- Evaluate, educate, and improve store conditions, guest experience, operational efficiency, waste reduction, and profitable sales through expertise.
- Leverage reporting to evaluate performance in sales, markdowns, inventory productivity, food safety, and other measures.
- Maintain industry knowledge and market trends by benchmarking competitor pricing, promotions, merchandising practices, and processes.
- Utilize innovation, critical thinking, communication, and store partnership to understand and influence future seasons and events with your insight and expertise.
- Represent stores and food operations in advocating for locally requested food items the guest is looking for, including new items, holiday merchandising, and competitor merchandising benchmarking.
- Influence and provide thoughtful feedback to key store and field partners (Team Leaders, ETLs, SDs, and district leadership).
- Utilize your industry knowledge to influence store leaders to execute food and beverage strategies and processes in store.
- Lead and create a service culture utilizing tools and routines that model, train, and coach behavioral expectations to deliver the service standard.
- Ensure execution through detailed training and education of store leadership teams and food and beverage experts, including ordering and managing inventory and supplies, merchandising, freshness, food safety, sampling, and other store-controlled processes.
- Support guest service and profitable sales by assisting stores with guest-centric scheduling and training.
- Encourage and deliver a fresh and safe experience through reinforcing food safety processes, training teams to integrate food safety, product rotation, cleaning and sanitation, and freshness into everyday processes.
- Partner with Stores and Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Vendors to drive DSD sales through on-shelf availability and operational efficiency.
- Partner with Starbucks and Pizza Hut field leaders to drive sales through guiding brand standard execution and operational efficiencies.
- Maintain compliance with policies and procedures defined by all regulatory agencies.
- Challenge teams to develop staffing and contingency plans that ensure coverage and maintain production and service capabilities.
- Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance; lead team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.
- Support Target’s safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, empowering store leaders to correct and/or escalate hazards, and holding team accountable to safety policies, best practices, and training.
- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
- All other duties based on business needs.
The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Food & Beverage Coordinator. But there are a few skills you should have from the get-go:
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of food and beverage experience
- Proven execution skills and ability to drive change
- Operate in an ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment
- Quickly adapt to changing priorities and tasks
- Project and process management/ownership experience
- Work in high intensity situations with composure and ease
- Solution-based mindset with desire to uncover business gaps and solve problems
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Build strong partnerships with key partners
We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:
- Experience leading stores or supporting field organization
- Training experience
- Supervisory experience
- Strong leadership and influencing skills
- Should live in or within driving distance of assigned district market area
- Must be able to travel in assigned district market area
Target will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco and City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a HR Coordinator
Target companies with a history of H-1B sponsorship
Larger employers in healthcare, tech, and professional services file H-1B visa petitions regularly. Prioritizing these companies gives you a realistic path beyond OPT, since HR Coordinator roles at small businesses rarely come with sponsorship infrastructure.
Lead with your SHRM or HR certification progress
Employers sponsoring OPT workers want to see long-term investment. Mentioning active pursuit of SHRM-CP or PHR certification signals you're building a career in HR, not just filling a temporary role, which strengthens the sponsorship conversation.
Apply early in your OPT period, not at the end
Employers need time to evaluate you, start the H-1B process, and meet the April lottery deadline. Joining a company with less than six months left on your OPT makes that timeline nearly impossible to execute without STEM extension coverage.
Clarify your work authorization upfront, professionally
HR teams hire HR Coordinators, so your interviewer likely understands OPT better than most. Stating your authorization status clearly and early removes ambiguity and positions you as someone who understands compliance, which is directly relevant to the role.
Emphasize HRIS and compliance skills in your resume
Workday, ADP, and BambooHR experience signals immediate productivity. Employers weighing sponsorship costs against hiring you want to see you can contribute from day one, not spend months learning foundational systems before becoming a net asset.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for OPT-friendly HR roles
Migrate Mate surfaces HR Coordinator positions at employers open to work authorization. Filtering specifically for OPT-friendly roles saves time you'd otherwise spend applying to companies that won't consider candidates requiring sponsorship now or later.
HR Coordinator OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an HR Coordinator role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
HR Coordinator positions can qualify as specialty occupations, but it depends on how the role is defined. Positions requiring a specific bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field are more defensible than generalist roles. Employers should document the degree requirement clearly in the job description to support an H-1B petition.
Can I work as an HR Coordinator on STEM OPT extension?
STEM OPT is available only to students who graduated in a STEM-designated field. Human resources and business administration degrees are generally not on the STEM OPT list, so most HR Coordinator roles on OPT are limited to the standard 12-month period. If your degree is in information systems, data analytics, or another STEM field and you're working in an HR analytics role, STEM OPT may apply.
How do I find HR Coordinator jobs where employers are open to OPT sponsorship?
The most efficient approach is to focus on employers with documented H-1B filing history in HR-related roles, which indicates familiarity with work authorization processes. Migrate Mate filters HR Coordinator listings by sponsorship openness, so you're not wasting applications on companies that have never sponsored a visa and aren't set up to start.
What should I say when an HR Coordinator job application asks about work authorization?
Select that you are authorized to work but will require sponsorship in the future. Be accurate about your OPT end date and whether you have STEM extension eligibility. Since you're applying to HR departments, honesty here is especially important. Misrepresenting authorization status to an HR team is a significant red flag that will likely end the process immediately.
Is an HR Coordinator role a realistic path to a green card?
Yes, though it typically requires progressing to a more senior title first. Green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 is possible for HR professionals, but employers generally won't initiate the PERM labor certification process for entry-level coordinators. Demonstrating value over one to two years and moving into an HR generalist or specialist role makes the conversation more realistic.