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General Statement of Duties:  The Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator for Graduate and Continuing Education (GCE) is responsible for relationship building with regional employers, community colleges and other related agencies for the purpose of promoting Graduate and Continuing Education credit and non-credit programs that contribute to the workforce development of the region and the Commonwealth.  The Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator will track partnership activities and share updates regarding their work on a routine basis.  In addition, this position will reach out to prospective students, applicants, re-admits, and matriculated students in specified programs. This position serves as a liaison between the GCE academic divisions, admissions and other student service departments to coordinate communication to prospective and current students and manage internal communication between departments regarding enrollment and service.  This position contributes to the strategic enrollment planning process by providing recruitment strategies for the programs and audiences they work with and also managing the implementation and on-going communication of approved strategies for their assigned programs. This position is also responsible for coordinating a variety of activities in GCE, including webinar development and facilitation, coordinating degree completion and transfer student specific GCE communication, performing unofficial transcript evaluations, assisting with online orientation and other duties as assigned.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Travels to regional employers, community agencies, community and scholastic events and community colleges to promote SGOCE programs and services and establish on-going relationships, including community colleges (in coordination with admissions).
2. Researches partnership opportunities and regional events to identify and recommend activities for GCE outreach.
3. Seeks out opportunities to expand non-credit offerings and customized programming.
4. Responsible for developing and managing the protocol for recruitment at events in terms of table set-up, recruitment materials and the collection, storage and uploading of contacts collected at events in collaboration with the Director of Enrollment for SGOCE.
5. Responsible for maintaining relationships with community colleges and serving as the primary SGOCE contact for community college outreach. Updates and maintains information within SGOCE to support transfer students and prospective students including review of on-boarding materials, website resources, collateral etc.
6. Responsible for conducting pre-advising for prospective students including conducting unofficial transfer evaluations on request.
7. Assists with managing the 2-year course rotation schedules with the academic departments and reviewing the seats list to ensure accuracy in course listings.
8. Develops, implements and assesses communication to assigned prospective student audiences.
9. Fields phone calls, walk-in visits and online chat with prospective and current students across programs as needed.
10. Responsible for conducting on-going follow-up with assigned admitted not-registered and current students who are not registered each semester.
11. Assists with the development and facilitation with online orientation.
12. Assist with the facilitation of the New Student Phone Outreach campaign to welcome students to the university and help assure a smooth transition.
13. Serves as a liaison to assigned academic divisions, attends academic department meetings and coordinates communication between academic divisions, SGOCE, Admissions and other student service departments.
14. Assists with strategic enrollment planning by providing input on recruitment strategies for assigned programs, communicating information between departments and helping to meet program enrollment goals.
15. Responsible for planning and participating in recruitment activities for assigned program including attending career, transfer or graduate fairs, meeting with local employers and other community events or activities as needed.
16. Other assigned duties