HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH COORDINATOR

About the role

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University—one of the nation's premier mass communication schools—seeks a high school engagement coordinator. Working as part of a dedicated student recruitment team, this role focuses on building and strengthening partnerships with high schools to create a robust pipeline of future media leaders. The coordinator will engage and recruit prospective first-year students through dynamic in-person presentations and relationship-building across Arizona and beyond.

The coordinator will spend significant time on the road, traveling throughout Arizona to high schools to build relationships with prospective students and school officials; they also travel at least four times a year to national youth media conventions, representing and recruiting for the Cronkite School. We seek a passionate, energetic professional with an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for media who embraces extensive travel, excels at both relationship management and event coordination, and is committed to fostering a welcoming environment for our future students. Ultimately, the high school engagement coordinator assumes responsibility for the unit's relationships with high schools and high schoolers across the country, and collaboratively helps drive strategic enrollment at the Cronkite School.

Responsibilities

• Build and strengthen partnerships with high schools to create a robust pipeline of future media leaders
• Engage and recruit prospective first-year students through dynamic in-person presentations and relationship-building across Arizona and beyond
• Travel extensively throughout Arizona to high schools to build relationships with prospective students and school officials
• Travel at least four times a year to national youth media conventions, representing and recruiting for the Cronkite School
• Manage relationships with high schools and high schoolers across the country
• Collaboratively help drive strategic enrollment at the Cronkite School

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved

Desired Qualifications

• Experience as a champion of scholastic media in a teaching, advising or counseling role
• Demonstrated knowledge of Arizona high schools, CTE programs and other youth activities
• Demonstrated knowledge with educational and career opportunities in media, communications, journalism and/or PR
• Experience in student recruitment or admissions for a higher education institution with measurable success
• Evidence of effective written communication
• Evidence of effective public speaking, tour hosting, tabling or similar presentations
• Ability to travel nationally and locally
• Ability to drive and safely operate an ASU vehicle (evidence of a valid driver's license; an MVR check will be conducted)
• Ability to converse in both English and Spanish

Pay

$55,000 - $70,000 DOE

Department Statement

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is widely recognized as one of the nation's premier professional journalism programs. The school, which was named in Cronkite's honor in 1984, prepares the next generation of journalists in both the time-honored fundamentals embraced by Cronkite and the multimedia skills necessary to thrive as journalists in the digital age. Housed in a $71 million state-of-the-art media complex in downtown Phoenix, the school has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London as a leader in 21st-century journalism education.