Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with community partners, nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses to identify collaboration opportunities.
• Build and sustain ongoing relationships with students that facilitate and enhance the student/university connection. Serve as a liaison between EWU students, faculty, and community organizations to facilitate volunteerism, internships, and career-centered learning projects.
• Represent EWU at community meetings, events, and service initiatives.
• Develop and implement strategies to increase student and faculty participation in community engagement programs.
• Organize and manage community-based programs, events, and service projects in alignment with the university’s engagement goals.
• Provide administrative assistance for the office of community engagement, including front desk coverage coordination.
• Be attentive to the EWU Aspire program, ensuring students gain real-world experience through mentoring, leadership, and direct engagement with K-12 students.
• Track participation of students and community partners, and the impact of engagement programs, collecting data to assess effectiveness and inform future initiatives.
• Assist with grant writing and fundraising efforts to develop community engagement programs.
• Develop promotional materials, newsletters, and social media content to highlight community engagement efforts.
• Manage the community engagement website and maintain up-to-date information on available service opportunities.
• Provide reports and presentations to university leadership and stakeholders on community engagement impact.
• Work in partnership with university colleagues to enhance student participation and engagement and community impact efforts.
• Interpret university policies, procedures, and requirements for students.
• Represent EWU on campus and community committees

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in community development, social work, public administration, education, or a related field.
• Minimum two years of experience in community engagement, outreach, program coordination, or a related field.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience managing programs, events, or volunteer initiatives.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and social media platforms.
• Be student-centered with a passion for student success.
• Demonstrated ability to apply a responsive and flexible approach that is supportive of the needs including universal access of our students, faculty, staff and the public

Preferred

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience working in a higher education setting.
• Familiarity with service-learning and civic engagement best practices.
• Bilingual fluency, with Spanish preferred

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package including health insurance and disability insurance and retirement
• generous vacation and sick leave accruals, 13 paid holidays per year and fringe benefits, such as tuition waiver for employees and eligible family members, discounted EWU sports tickets, full access to our campus workout facilities at a minimum fee and free transportation through STA buses
• For additional information regarding insurance benefits please see our Benefits page