Charleston, WV jobs, layoffs and employers

76 open professional jobs in Charleston. Charleston is in Kanawha County.

Jobs in Charleston

TITLE 5 SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MANAGER GS-0018-12 (GS-12)Air National Guard Units
Remote General Liability Claims Examiner Growth & ImpactSedgwick
Clinical Research CoordinatorCharleston Area Medical Center
Controls Account ManagerTrane U.s.
Portfolio ManagerUnited Bank
Product SpecialistUnited Bank
Specialty Account Manager, Long Term Care (Charleston, WV)Axsome Therapeutics
Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Regional HospitalsConfidential
Deputy Director, Rural Health Transformation Program ( RHTP )West Virginia Departments of Health, Health Facilities and H...
Director of OperationsGMB Powerline Services

Employers hiring most in Charleston

Nexstar Media Group4 open roles
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys3 open roles
Powerx3 open roles
Sinclair3 open roles
Worley Group3 open roles
Army National Guard Units2 open roles
Aspen Careers2 open roles
Charleston Area Medical Center2 open roles
CyberCoders2 open roles
Graybar2 open roles

Charleston layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Charleston in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Colleges in Charleston

Colleges in Charleston
College	Type	Students
University of Charleston	Private nonprofit 4-year	1,000–4,999

Job fairs and business events in Charleston

Hiring events, career workshops and business events in Charleston.

Starting a businessOct 28, 2026 · Charleston, WV
WVSU Economic Development Center Fall Open House
College: West Virginia State University

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Charleston. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Region III Workforce Development Board of Kanawha County, Inc.
Kanawha

Workforce WV - Charleston
Charleston · Comprehensive
Monday through Friday 8:30 to 4:30

Kanawha County economy

4.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.4% the month before
77,933
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
178,198
people in Kanawha County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$58,887
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from West Virginia’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.