This Douglas County Kansas job guide highlights credible employment pathways across local government, healthcare, education, public safety, and state and local workforce resources serving Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, and communities throughout the county.
Job-volume badges: A “10+ jobs” badge means that ten or more openings were observed during the most recent review. These badges can help identify employers that may be more likely to have current opportunities, but they do not guarantee that the same number of jobs is still available.
This Douglas County Kansas job guide highlights credible employment pathways across local government, healthcare, education, public safety, and state and local workforce resources serving Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, and communities throughout the county.
Job-volume badges: A “10+ jobs” badge means that ten or more openings were observed during the most recent review. These badges can help identify employers that may be more likely to have current opportunities, but they do not guarantee that the same number of jobs is still available.
Douglas County government employs staff across public works, planning, elections, administration, courts, corrections, emergency communications, and community services. Its central employment page also carries openings for the Sheriff’s Office and Seventh Judicial District.
Lawrence is the county’s largest municipal employer, with careers spanning utilities, public works, parks and recreation, planning, finance, information technology, transit, solid waste, and community-facing services. The city uses a centralized online application system.
Eudora provides municipal services for one of Douglas County’s growing communities. Its employment page posts openings tied to city administration, public works, utilities, parks and recreation, public safety, and other local-government operations when positions are available.
Baldwin City’s municipal workforce supports administration, utilities, streets, parks, public safety, and community services. The city maintains a dedicated jobs page for paid openings and also identifies volunteer public-safety opportunities separately.
LMH Health is Lawrence’s community health system, anchored by its hospital and supported by outpatient, specialty, rehabilitation, diagnostic, and physician services. Its careers site covers clinical, technical, support, administrative, and provider opportunities throughout the organization.
Bert Nash is Douglas County’s community mental health center and a major behavioral-health employer. Its teams support outpatient care, crisis response, community-based services, case management, psychiatry, recovery programs, and the county’s Treatment & Recovery Center.
Heartland Community Health Center is a Lawrence-based federally qualified health center providing integrated medical, dental, behavioral-health, pharmacy, and pediatric services. Employment opportunities span licensed clinicians, nursing, dental care, patient services, technology, administration, and leadership.
DCCCA is headquartered in Lawrence and provides behavioral-health treatment, prevention, recovery, family-support, and community services across Kansas. Its employment opportunities include counseling, case management, residential and recovery services, program operations, administrative work, and other human-service careers.
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health provides local public-health services including clinical care, WIC, disease prevention, health education, planning, and community programs. Its own job board can include nursing, clinic-support, public-health planning, outreach, and contract service opportunities.
Lawrence Public Schools USD 497 is the county’s largest K-12 district, serving elementary, middle, and high school students across Lawrence. The district hires educators, paraeducators, administrators, operations staff, transportation personnel, food-service workers, custodians, and specialized student-support professionals.
Baldwin City USD 348 serves Baldwin City and surrounding southern Douglas County communities. Its employment system covers licensed teaching, special education, paraprofessional, coaching, transportation, food service, custodial, maintenance, substitute, and district-support positions.
Eudora Schools USD 491 operates the public schools serving Eudora and nearby areas of eastern Douglas County. The district recruits licensed educators and support staff while maintaining separate information for substitutes, paraprofessionals, and special-education employment pathways.
Baker University, founded in Baldwin City, is a private university with undergraduate, graduate, professional, and online programs. Its employment opportunities include faculty, administrative, student-support, admissions, advancement, technology, facilities, and other university staff roles.
Haskell Indian Nations University is a federal tribal university in Lawrence serving American Indian and Alaska Native students. Faculty and staff are federal employees, and Haskell’s Human Resources office directs applicants to USAJOBS for current university vacancies.
The University of Kansas Lawrence campus is the county’s largest higher-education employer, with work across teaching, research, libraries, student services, information technology, facilities, administration, athletics, museums, and campus operations. KU maintains dedicated searches for faculty, staff, and student positions.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office recruits sworn and civilian personnel for patrol, investigations, corrections, emergency communications, records, court security, and agency support. Its hiring information explains the screening, testing, interview, and application process for prospective employees.
The Lawrence Police Department employs sworn officers and professional staff serving the county’s largest city. Police hiring runs through the City of Lawrence employment system, which provides the current application pathway for law-enforcement and supporting municipal positions.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical provides integrated fire suppression and emergency medical services for Lawrence and much of Douglas County. Its recruitment information outlines qualifications and application requirements for firefighter, EMT, advanced EMT, paramedic, and related emergency-response careers.
The Lawrence Workforce Center is the local KANSASWORKS access point for Douglas County, connecting job seekers with employment search assistance, training programs, career guidance, résumé support, and other workforce services available through the state’s American Job Center network.
KANSASWORKS is Kansas’s statewide workforce system, combining a large searchable job database with résumé tools, training-program information, job fairs, career services, and connections to local Workforce Centers. It is free for job seekers and employers.
The State of Kansas careers system lists vacancies across agencies, institutions, public safety, health and human services, transportation, administration, and other state functions. Applicants can search current openings and apply through the state’s centralized recruiting portal.
Please submit feedback or report link errors by emailing info@worklooker.com. Sources are reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis, and your feedback helps improve this directory.
