Engagement Coordinator - Materials Science and Engineering

Duties & ResponsibilitiesCurrent Student Engagement: • Plan and execute events, including the undergraduate picnic, awards banquet, graduation brunch, holiday party, and senior design poster session. • Partner with undergraduate student organizations, including Material Advantage and Keramos, to support their efforts, including event planning and participation in professional conferences. • Actively engage with current students to determine and respond to their changing academic needs by attending meetings with students, building rapport, collecting job placement and graduate school data, and discussing these needs with the department head and faculty to further the educational experience for undergraduate students • Manage the communication platform for undergraduate students. • Build relationships with industry partners to establish regularly occurring professional development seminars and on-site visits for students. • Collaborate with industry partners to establish an annual Materials Science & Engineering focused career fair and other ways to support post-grad job search efforts. Undergraduate Recruiting & Outreach: • Support the undergraduate recruiting committee by organizing and hosting meetings with prospective and admitted high school students. ◦ Arrange events that bring prospective students together with MatSE staff and faculty to enhance undergraduate recruiting efforts, including virtual meetings, demonstrations, and in-person visits. ◦ Work with College and departmental communications staff to advertise events. ◦ Maintain a working knowledge of engagement efforts in other departments throughout the College to share best practices. ◦ Create and publish recruiting materials, including social media content, physical mailers, and handouts. ◦ Build relationships with targeted high schools and their faculty for recruiting top students. • Lead logistical planning for Getting Excited about Materials & Middle School Generation Learning about Materials Science camps for students. • Departmental Support: • Complete scholarship entries in DAWS for incoming and current undergraduate students. • Build relationships with the communications team to develop content about events for social media. • Plan and execute faculty investitures. • Partner with the alumni board to program biannual meetings and with student leadership to organize, coordinate and execute the alumni-student mentorship program. Other Related Duties • Assume additional appropriate duties to further the mission of the Department.