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University of Wisconsin - Madison is hiring an Engineering Student Engagement Coordinator to design, deliver, and evaluate co-curricular programs that build leadership skills and connections across the College of Engineering. The coordinator supports the College’s new ImagiNEXT initiative by coordinating international and domestic immersion logistics, facilitating career development travel, and leading first-year engineering interest groups. Writing and publishing communications content and managing the college-wide student experience symposium round out the position’s focus on student involvement and success.

Highlights

Design and deliver co-curricular programs that build student leadership and engineering community connections.
Coordinate logistics for international and domestic immersion programs.
Facilitate professional and career development travel for students.
Develop and lead first-year engineering interest groups.
Manage the college-wide student experience symposium and related initiatives.
Write, edit, and publish content for communication and marketing platforms.
Generate and analyze reports on curricular and unit outcomes.
At least two years of professional higher education experience post-bachelor’s required.
Bachelor’s degree in higher education, student affairs, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
Starting salary of $57,000, negotiable based on experience and qualifications.
On-site role based in Madison with the College of Engineering’s Academic Affairs and Student Engagement team.

Engineering Student Engagement Coordinator Full Description

Job Summary

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.

Key job responsibilities

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.

Department

College of Engineering, Academic Affairs, Student Engagement

Compensation

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

Required 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.

Preferred qualifications

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.

Education

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.

Contact information

Beth Brandl, [email protected]

Institutional statement on diversity

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies.

Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct, including sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

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