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Job Description
Department: Valley Promise
General Statement of Job
The Coordinator of Outreach leads and manages community-based engagement initiatives designed to increase college access, financial aid completion, and early student connection to South Texas College. This position focuses on expanding outreach efforts across the Rio Grande Valley through financial aid programming, campus visit experiences, and community partnerships.
The Coordinator plays a key role in supporting the enrollment pipeline by increasing FAFSA/TASFA completion, strengthening early awareness efforts, and creating meaningful campus and community engagement opportunities that align with institutional enrollment goals and the Valley Promise program.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
Develops, implements, and evaluates financial aid outreach strategies to increase FAFSA/TASFA completion across target populations.
Coordinates and leads financial aid workshops, completion events, and community-based programming in partnership with high schools, libraries, and community organizations.
Collaborates with Student Financial Services and recruitment staff to align financial aid messaging and support student enrollment progression.
Tracks financial aid completion rates and identifies gaps in student progression.
Builds and maintains partnerships with school districts, community organizations, libraries, and external stakeholders to expand outreach efforts.
Coordinates off-campus outreach initiatives focused on increasing college awareness and access.
Represents the College at community events, presentations, and engagement opportunities.
Supports regional initiatives that promote postsecondary education participation.
Oversees the development and implementation of campus visit experiences, including individual visits, group tours, and K–12 engagement programming.
Coordinates campus visit scheduling, logistics, and staffing in collaboration with internal departments.
Develops structured campus engagement experiences that promote college awareness and student connection.
Ensures campus visits align with recruitment and enrollment conversion goals.
Develops and implements early awareness initiatives for elementary and middle school students to promote a college-going culture.
Coordinates interactive programming that introduces students to college pathways, careers, and opportunities.
Aligns outreach efforts with long-term enrollment pipeline strategies.
Works closely with the Coordinator of Recruitment to align outreach efforts with recruitment and enrollment strategies.
Ensures seamless transition of students from outreach engagement to recruitment pipeline.
Shares student data and engagement insights to support targeted recruitment follow-up.
Supports Valley Promise awareness efforts to increase early student commitment to college.
Collaborates on communication strategies that support outreach initiatives and student engagement.
Assists in promoting events and initiatives through various communication channels.
Ensures consistent messaging aligned with college branding and enrollment priorities.
Tracks participation and outcomes of outreach initiatives, including financial aid completion events and campus visits.
Develops reports to evaluate the effectiveness of outreach strategies and inform improvements.
Uses data to identify trends and opportunities to increase student engagement and access.
Ensures compliance with institutional policies and applicable regulations related to outreach and student engagement.
Maintains accurate records of outreach activities and partnerships.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
Strong computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, the Windows environment, and internet research skills.
Maintains familiarity with the College’s programs, policies, procedures and academic standards.
Bilingual, English/Spanish, preferred.
Ability to work independently as well as a team player within department and with others.
Ability to work evenings and/or weekends as needed; willing to travel throughout the college district using own means of reliable transportation.
Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of students, faculty, staff, and the general public.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations
Physical Requirements
Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
Standing particularly for sustained periods of time.
Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Minimum Compensation
$53,445.00
Desired Start Date
September 07, 2026
Posting Close Date (No Close Date if Blank)
22 July 2026 11:59pm
