Engineering Student Engagement Coordinator

The Engineering Student Engagement Coordinator plays a vital role in enhancing student involvement, leadership growth, and academic success within the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering. Through the design, delivery, and evaluation of co-curricular programs, this position enriches the undergraduate experience by helping students discover their interests, develop key skills, and build connections across the engineering community.

As a key contributor to the College's new ImagiNEXT initiative, the coordinator helps broaden access to transformative hands-on opportunities that foster experiential learning, leadership development, global immersion, and engagement with industry and community partners. In collaboration with others, this role coordinates logistics for international and domestic immersion programs, facilitates professional and career development travel for students, develops and leads first-year engineering interest groups, and manages the college-wide student experience symposium and other initiatives. By creating meaningful pathways for involvement and growth, the coordinator advances the College's commitment to preparing engineers who are equipped to lead with empathy, purpose, and impact in a rapidly changing world.

• Organizes student-focused programming and resources to promote new and ongoing educational initiatives

• Writes, edits, and publishes content for various communication projects and marketing platforms to align with strategic initiatives and established communication campaigns

• Creates and maintains schedules, logistics, and resources for one or multiple student affairs programs, activities, and/or services

• Generates and analyzes reports of curricular and unit outcomes

• Serves as a subject matter expert regarding student affairs to internal and external stakeholders

College of Engineering, Academic Affairs, Student Engagement

The starting salary for the position is $57,000 (but is negotiable based on experience and qualifications).

At least two years of professional experience in higher education post-bachelor's degree in one of the following areas:

• Experience developing, coordinating, or implementing programs, events, and/or initiatives that enhance the student experience

• Experience working directly with college students to promote engagement, personal development, and/or academic success

• Experience planning and managing program operations, such as scheduling, communications, registration processes, event logistics, and/or post-event assessment

• Experience working with students interested in pursuing STEM fields

• Experience promoting, marketing, or communicating student opportunities and programs to increase student awareness and participation

• Experience facilitating co-curricular, leadership, student engagement, or student success programming for college students

Required: Bachelor's degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, education, sociology, psychology, engineering or STEM or a related field

Preferred: Master's degree in higher education, student affairs, counseling, education, sociology, psychology, engineering or STEM or a related field

To apply for this position, select either "I am a current employee" or I am not a current employee" under Apply Now. You will then be prompted to upload a letter of qualifications and resume/CV. Important: The application has only one attachment field. Upload the required documents in that field, either as a single combined file (PDF preferred) or as multiple files in the same upload area.

Please submit a letter of qualifications and resume/CV that demonstrates how your experience meets the Required and Preferred Qualifications. Include specific examples of your experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Experience developing, coordinating, or implementing programs, events, and/or initiatives that enhance the student experience

• Experience working directly with college students to promote engagement, personal development, and/or academic success

• Experience planning and managing program operations, such as scheduling, communications, registration processes, event logistics, and/or post-event assessment

Please be aware that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their continuous eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment. This position is an ongoing position that will require continuous work eligibility. If you are selected for this position you would have to provide proof of work authorization and eligibility to work.

The College is not an E-Verify employer and therefore we cannot accept F-1 OPT STEM Extensions for employment eligibility.

Beth Brandl, beth.brandl@wisc.edu

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