Student Engagement Coordinator

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Description

Join our team as a Student Engagement Coordinator at Berea College!

Are you an experienced higher education professional looking for a new opportunity? Do you have a passion for fostering a vibrant, inclusive campus community? Berea College is looking for a Student Engagement Coordinator. The Student Engagement Coordinator creates environments and programs to facilitate student involvement and cocurricular engagement within Berea’s co-curricular engagement model. Working out of the Office of Student Involvement & Engagement, the person in this position will participate in cross-functional programming, work with student organizations, and share administrative and student service responsibility across the Student Life areas.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Supervise and manage late-night events, ensuring a vibrant, inclusive, and engaging environment for students. This includes planning, coordinating, and promoting Mountaineers After Dark programs and other late-night activities.
• Build strong, proactive relationships with student leaders, fostering their development through mentorship, leadership training, and creative problem-solving opportunities to help them cultivate their leadership potential.
• Provide guidance and oversight for student organizations, including facilitating leadership training, managing the re-registration process, and supporting new organization approvals. Ensure that student organizations adhere to budget and spending guidelines.
• Serve as the primary advisor for the ICC, guiding student leadership in elections, budget allocations, conflict resolution, and the approval of new organizations. Foster self-governance and a strong, collaborative student organization community.
• Oversee the Anthology student organization software platform, ensuring that content is up-to-date, relevant, and actively used by students, faculty, and staff to support co-curricular engagement.
• Collaborate with Student Life and campus partners to design and implement a diverse calendar of events, emphasizing late-night, weekend, and community-building programs. Ensure all events meet risk management and contractual guidelines.
• Lead the creation and execution of targeted marketing campaigns to promote student events, programs, and student organization initiatives across campus, fostering maximum engagement.
• Train, evaluate, and provide ongoing mentorship to student employees in Campus Life, ensuring a positive and enriching work experience that promotes skill development and leadership growth.
• Actively promote and support programming that highlights and celebrates cultural diversity, such as Black History Month, Latin Heritage Month, Women’s History Month, Indigenous Peoples Day, and others.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee major campus events like Welcome Week, Homecoming, Mountain Day, and other major campus events, ensuring they are inclusive, successful, and in line with institutional goals.
• Assess the success of events and programs in relation to student learning outcomes, the mission of the Student Life division, and the broader vision of the college.
• Supervise, schedule, and mentor students in Campus Life labor positions, helping them develop important workplace skills and contributing to the overall success of Campus Life initiatives.
• In support of Berea College’s great commitments this position requires student supervision. The fourth great commitment is to promote learning and serving in community through the student labor program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. The Supervision would include scheduling, assigning and approving work performed. Developing students about common workplace acumen and giving them tangible work experience is an expected outcome. To learn more about the student labor program and requirements on this position see: Labor Program Goals
• Other roles/duties will be assigned as necessary to assist the College in the attainment of the goals set forth and the enhancement of a positive, respectful learning environment for all staff, faculty and students.
  
  

What You'll Bring

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Bachelor’s Degree, required
• Master’s Degree in student personnel, higher education administration, or a related field is preferred.
  
  

Experience Required To Ensure Success In This Position

• Two years’ work experience in higher education including student development, program development, and/or administrative experience.
  
  

Special skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Strong desire to build relationships with students, colleagues, and college partners.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Excellent programming skills to plan and implement events.
• Commitment to inclusion and desire to work with diverse groups of people. Experience working with culturally diverse populations.
• Integrity, sound judgment, and the ability to make values-based decisions.
• Ability to work as part of a collaborative team. Strong desire to build relationships with students, colleagues, and college partners.
• Knowledge of accounting principles (i.e., constructing and balancing budgets).
• Must be punctual and follow through on commitments.
• Ability to provide good customer service.
• Ability to work effectively in a team.
• An understanding and appreciation for the liberal arts and residential colleges.
• Experience advising student organization(s) is desirable.
• Experience working with Campus Labs, Anthology, or another similar student organization online resource is desirable.
• A propensity for creativity and innovation, positive attitude, cultural competence, and creative problem solving.
• Knowledge of Student Development Theory or Higher Education Philosophy/Pedagogy
• Ability to attend, monitor, and lead events and meetings as late as 12:00am as needed
  
  

License, certification, or registration necessary:

• Valid Driver’s License
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends
• Must have the physical dexterity and visual and auditory acuity to freely negotiate campus environments to supervise and assist students preparing facilities for various program uses.
• Requires stooping, bending, and lifting up to 25lbs.
  
  

Environmental Conditions

• Most work is performed in office settings with heavy foot traffic and frequent interruption
• Must be willing to work in shared space environments as part of a team structure
• The position has regular evening and weekend office hours and on-call responsibilities
  
  

Ability To Operate The Following Vehicles Or Equipment

• Motor vehicle
• Computing technologies
• Standard office equipment
  
  

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal /College Pulse college rankings , 2023 . The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023 . Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Our Benefits

Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the

Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.

To learn more details, visit our benefits page at

Our Unique Culture

Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of

Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

Labor Supervision

In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link