Title: Student Engagement & Outreach Coordinator

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Pikes Peak State College

Campus: Centennial Campus

Location: Colorado Springs

Salary Range: $52,000.00-$54,000.00

Who We Are:

Pikes Peak State College is the largest and most diverse college in the Pikes Peak region, serving students with a wide range of goals, experiences, and responsibilities. Our students include recent high school graduates, working adults, military-affiliated students, parents, first-generation students, career changers, transfer students, and lifelong learners.

Job Summary:

The Student Engagement & Outreach Coordinator advances student engagement, leadership, and success by leading the Office of Student Engagement & Leadership's outreach, promotional, communications, and creative services efforts. This position develops and executes promotional strategies that increase awareness of campus involvement opportunities, student resources, leadership programs, and events across a multi-campus institution. The role combines creative content development, project management, student employee supervision, and cross campus collaboration to support institutional priorities related to student retention, belonging, equity, and holistic student success.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Creative Services & Content Management

• Lead and coordinate departmental marketing, outreach, and communication initiatives that promote student engagement, leadership, and campus involvement.
• Design and produce student-facing marketing materials, including flyers, brochures, newsletters, digital signage, presentations, and promotional campaigns.
• Develop engaging graphic design, digital media, and written content for print, web, email, and social media platforms.
• Manage and maintain departmental social media accounts, content calendars, and digital engagement strategies.
• Coordinate promotional campaigns and creative projects from planning through implementation, ensuring timely completion and alignment with departmental priorities.
• Support marketing and promotion for campus events, leadership programs, student organizations, student resources, and student success initiatives.
• Maintain consistency with institutional branding, messaging, accessibility, and communication standards across all marketing materials.
• Update website content and coordinate digital communications to ensure timely and accurate information.
• Collaborate with faculty, staff, departments, and community partners to support integrated communication and outreach efforts.
• Support departmental publications, special projects, and campus-wide promotional initiatives.
• Foster an inclusive, welcoming, and student-centered environment through effective communication and outreach strategies.
• Contribute to institutional goals related to student success, retention, equity, belonging, and community engagement through strategic communications and student support. Administrative Duties
• General filing, data entry, record keeping, word processing, managing inventory, ordering supplies and food.
• Support assessment and tracking for departments through tracking data and generating reports
• Assist with annual reports and strategic planning.
• Facilitate communication with Facilities Management for maintenance and repairs and ITSS for technical issues.
• Track, analyze, and report marketing and campaign performance using engagement metrics and data to inform continuous improvement.

Operational Duties

• Support with managing the office email inbox, newsletters, and communication services
• Support with monitoring lounge space and assist with the development and implementation of Centers’ guidelines.

Hourly Supervision

• Supervise student assistants, including the development of training, delegation of projects, and assessment of performance
• Manage all hourly employees’ schedules including monitoring and tracking hours, coverage, and timesheet assistance.
• Coach and assist student workers with student facing outreach opportunities, monitoring social media and advising students content calendaring
• Supervise, train, mentor, and provide daily guidance to student employees supporting marketing, communications, and outreach initiatives.
• Assign projects, monitor progress, review completed work, and provide coaching and performance feedback to student staff.
• Coordinate workflows, project timelines, and deliverables while managing multiple concurrent priorities.
Finances
• Prepare purchasing card reconciliation, purchase requisitions, payroll action requests, budget transfers, transaction reports, and interdepartmental billings.
• Arrange travel plans including airfare, hotel, car rental reservations, ground transportation arrangements, and conference registrations.
Other duties as assigned.

Competencies/KSAs:

• Cultural competence and demonstrated evidence, understanding, and commitment to the concepts of diversity, multiculturalism, and their application in the workplace.
• Familiarity with relevant accessibility best practices.
• Experience working effectively as a member of a team; good interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of community referral resources.
• Ability to travel between campuses and work a flexible schedule as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completed bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, Graphic Design, Multimedia Production, Digital Media/Media Studies, Public Relations, Content Creation, Education, Higher Education Administration (with marketing experience), Business Administration (Marketing emphasis) from a regionally accredited institution OR completed associate degree with two years of professional level experience performing similar duties to those described for this position, OR four years professional level experience performing similar duties to those described for this position.

• Two years experience social media management, marketing, event promotion, graphic design.

• Two years experience in public speaking, facilitating workshops, or small group facilitation.

• One year experience with social media management, marketing, or content creation

• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a diverse environment; must demonstrate cultural humility.

• Experience with computer and software applications relating to office management, including word processing, spreadsheets, and email.

Professional level experience is defined by the Colorado Division of Human Resources: A position that involves the exercise of discretion, analytical skill, judgment, personal accountability, and responsibility for creating, developing, integrating, applying, or sharing an organized body of knowledge. Colorado revised statute (C.R.S. 24-50-135(1) allows colleges to exempt positions from the State Personnel Classified System that are determined to be professional level work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in marketing, Communications, Advertising, Graphic Design, Multimedia Production, Digital Media/Media Studies, Public Relations, Content Creation, Education, Higher Education Administration (with marketing experience), Business Administration (Marketing emphasis).

• Experience working in a higher education setting with traditional and nontraditional college students, student engagement, and/or community outreach.

• Supervisory Experience

• Experience with Canva and Adobe Creative Suite

• Experience with Photography and/or videography

• Data Analytics (Instagram, Facebook, Outlook, etc.)

• Event promotion and project management

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Bilingual in Spanish and English

• Knowledge of campus and community referral resources.

Selection Process:

For full consideration, all application materials must be received by 4:00 p.m. on September 25, 2026.

Must be a State of Colorado resident or able to relocate to Colorado prior to first date of employment.

Visa support is not available for this position.

Application Instructions: 

Application must be submitted online. Incomplete applications may not receive full consideration. A complete application will include:

Cover letter - Address the minimum and preferred qualifications in the order listed on the job announcement. Resume - Reflect experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Unofficial Transcripts - Unofficial transcripts for all degrees conferred. Official transcripts are required if hired for the position.
Professional References - Provide names and contact information for three recent professional references who can address your expertise and background for this position. Pikes Peak State College will conduct reference checks and a criminal background check on the selected candidate. Employment offers and continued employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Additional Information/Benefits:

Work Life Balance

Pikes Peak State College offers a generous amount of annual leave and sick leave. Depending on your employment category and full or part-time status, Pikes Peak State College offers 15 hours a month of annual leave and 10 hours a month of sick leave accrual. There are paid holidays and alternate paid holidays which allow the college to be closed Christmas Day through New Year's Day. Eligibility is defined by your employment FTE status.

Tuition Reimbursement

Education and your success are a priority at Pikes Peak State College. We encourage you to develop job skills and abilities which will benefit you as well as our college. Eligible employees, their eligible dependents, and spouse/domestic partners may enroll in credit courses at any of the Colorado Community College System. Eligibility is defined by your employment FTE status.

Health, Dental & Vision

Pikes Peak State College offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide you and eligible dependents, spouse/domestic partner, with a broad range of employer paid and employee paid benefit options. In addition to medical coverage, the college offers dental and vision insurance plans to choose from. Eligibility is defined by your employment FTE status.

Retirement

Pikes Peak State College participates in Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) contribution rates. State employees are required to a mandatory contribution of a percentage of their salary to the plan, and the college contributes a percentage as well. While you are enrolled in PERA, you do not pay Social Security. In addition, there are supplemental retirement plans available through three other vendors.

Flexible Spending Accounts

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) offer you an easy way to pay for eligible medical and childcare expenses with money that's set aside with a pre-tax benefit. Eligibility is defined by your employment FTE status.

Disability Coverage

Pikes Peak State College offers disability insurance to help you meet needs should you become unable to work due to an illness or injury.

Life Insurance

Pikes Peak State College offers life insurance paid for by the college to eligible employees. Supplemental life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance policies are available for those interested in additional coverage. Eligibility is defined by your employment FTE status.

Additional Leave Programs

Pikes Peak State College offers additional leave programs such as bereavement leave, jury leave, community and parental academic leave, Family and Medical Leave (FML), and Colorado Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI).