Salary: $76,114.68 - $91,769.64 Annually
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: EPP-Coordinator-23
Closing: 6/30/2023 11:59 PM Pacific
Location: Norwalk, CA
Department: EPP-Coordinator-23
Division: Educational Partnerships and Programs
Description
Equity and Diversity
The District is strongly committed to achieving staff diversity and the principles of equal opportunity employment. The District encourages a diverse pool of applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation in any of its policies, procedures or practices. In fact, the college encourages applications from all segments of qualified people.
Closing Date:
This position will close on June 30, 2023 at 11:59 PM (or when 150 applications are received, whichever occurs sooner).
College Profile
Cerritos College is ranked 14th among the top 100 schools with the highest Hispanic enrollment in the United States by the United States Department of Education. Cerritos College serves as a comprehensive community college for southeastern Los Angeles County. Communities within the college's district include Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, La Mirada, Norwalk, and portions of Bell Gardens, Lakewood, Long Beach, Santa Fe Springs and South Gate. Cerritos College offers degrees and certificates in more than 180 areas of study in nine divisions. Enrollment currently averages 20,000 students. Visit Cerritos College online at http://www.cerritos.edu.
Department Profile
The Office of Educational Partnerships and Programs is dedicated to planning and coordinating the District's K-16 activities to support collaborative partnerships and create a positive and constructive connection with College, School Districts, and Higher Education Relations in order to best serve our students. Program and Services include the college's Promise Program: Cerritos Complete, Teacher TRAC, Learning Communities/First Year Experience Program, Dual Enrollment Programs, Articulation, and Credit by Exam.
Summary
Coordinates, facilitates, and conducts educational partnership activities for the College, promoting constructive connection with college, school districts, and higher education relations. Coordinates, participates, and assists in special events, on and off campus school activities, and presentations
Distinguishing Career Features
The Educational Partnership Coordinator is a specialized position for promoting the College's educational partnerships to maximize student enrollment. This position requires the ability to identify potential students and student populations, prepare and present formal presentations to prospective students, organize events and conferences that promote the College, and develop promotional materials.
Job Duties
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishes an annual plan and schedule of educational partnership outreach activities and events suitable for College participation in order to enhance exposure in the local service area. Meets with school representatives to learn about and relay information about needs.
• Serves as a college representative and liaison to school-based organizations. Serves as a representative for college departments who want to communicate and promote their programs to K-16 students.
• Coordinates special events involving speakers, special topics, site, and support services. Arranges and sequences logistics and contracted services that support events. Prepares and delivers presentations to prospective students and educational institutions.
• Participates in the design of promotional materials, taking into consideration the intended message, audience, and the need to integrate text, graphics, and artwork. Confers with other College staff to coordinate the production of printed materials.
• Prepares presentation materials that support public speaking engagements such as overheads, pictures, charts, and graphs.
• Participates in, and may coordinate and/or prepare certain aspects of newsletters and other internal and external publications describing events, activities, and giving feature stories.
• Conducts research of student demographics and educational interests. Works with institutional researchers to identify and understand trends.
• Provides support to and may coordinate activities connected with grant proposals and when approved, promoting grant provisions and opportunities to faculty , staff, and students, especially those in special populations or sought after occupations.
• Coordinates and conducts tours of the college campus. Identifies information needs and assembles and/or designs and produces materials suitable for public distribution.
• Coordinates and participates in setting up special events such as those associated with Teacher TRAC programs (e.g., Elementary Pathway, CTE Pathway).
• Maintains currency of knowledge and skills related to the duties and responsibilities.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience
The position requires an a Bachelor's Degree in English, journalism, public relations, marketing communications, or related field and 2 years of experience in public relations, marketing, or communications capacity. Additional relevant experience combined with an Associates degree may substitute for some higher education.
Preferred Qualifications
The candidate must possess strong people, organizational, presentation, verbal and written communication skills and be able to meet the need of an office with a high level of activities, programs and grants.
Supplemental Information
Knowledge and Skills
The position requires working knowledge of educational partnership principles, methods, and formats. Requires a working knowledge of, and skill at sequencing the logistics involved in organizing marketing/communications action plans, special events involving supporting activities, and in-kind support to community events. Requires proofreading and editing skills to review educational and promotional materials. Requires a working knowledge of computer-aided office productivity tools including but not limited to, word and desktop publishing, graphics, internet and intranet web page editing programs. Requires well-developed language and writing skills to prepare professional materials and edit text to be suitable for communications. Requires sufficient English language skills to edit technical and policy copy for grammar, syntax, clarity, and content. Requires well developed human relations skills to prepare and deliver formal presentations to diverse audiences, facilitate group processes, and interact and discuss technical information with a wide range of contacts throughout the College.
Abilities
Requires the ability to learn, explain, and promote College programs and functions. Requires the ability to interpret and apply demographic and other institutional research for purposes of developing recruitment strategies. Requires the ability to identify, organize, and sequence activities that support marketing and communications projects. Requires the ability to develop promotional action plans to support grants and special programs. Requires the ability to conceptualize and prepare layouts for marketing materials. Requires the ability to work under deadline pressure and handle simultaneous projects. Requires the ability to access web site pages to edit and update materials. Requires the ability to troubleshoot problems associated with production of graphics and web page images. Requires the ability to compose written copy from instruction, concept, or hand copy and convert to formats suitable for external distribution. Requires the ability to work cooperatively and productively with diverse populations.
Physical Abilities
Requires ambulatory ability to sit for extended periods of time and stand and walk to remote locations for intermittent periods of time. Requires the ability to lift and carry lightweight materials (under 40 pounds) on an occasion??l basis. Requires hand-arm-eye coordination to operate a personal computer keyboard at an advanced rate. Requires visual acuity to arrange materials, observe movements of people, and read letters and numbers. Requires auditory ability to project voice to large audiences, hear conversation, and carry on conversations in person and over the phone.
Licenses and Certificates
Requires a valid driver's license.
Working Conditions
Work is performed indoors where minimal safety considerations exist.
It is the applicant's responsibility to provide copies of all transcript(s) verifying all educational degree(s) and/or coursework required for the position. A foreign transcript must be evaluated by a NACES certified agency. The web address is www.naces.org. All qualifying educational degrees/training must be from regionally accredited colleges and/or universities.
Salary/Fringe Benefits
Grade 43 on District Classified Salary Schedule ($6,342.89 -$7,647.47/month).
Health and welfare benefits include District contribution for medical/dental/vision benefits and employee life insurance ($50,000). (Cash in lieu option available on medical insurance.)
Participation in the Public Employee's Retirement System that is also integrated with Social Security
Conditions of Employment
This is a full-time, 12-calendar month classified position
Hours of employment are:
Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Initial placement of employees on Classified Salary schedule is at Step 1. After six months of successful probationary employment, employee is placed at Step 2.
Employment is to be effective as soon as possible following completion of the selection process.
Individual who is offered employment shall be required to obtain fingerprints for a criminal history clearance through the State Department of Justice and remit the required fee for processing the fingerprints (no fee if obtained at Cerritos College Campus Police Station) , produce an original social security card, and submit negative TB test results (must be within the past four years or within the last 60 days if not previously employed in a school district in California) before employment.
Proof of eligibility to work in the United States and signing of loyalty oath per Government Codes 3100-3109.
Board Policy 2905 requires mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of employment. The District requires all employees to submit proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC. Full policy details can be found on the website; Cerritos College - Chapter 2 - Board of Trustees. Employees may submit requests for medical or religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate for consideration. Details are available on the District's COVID-19 webpage
**Please note - the District does not provide for immigration sponsorships such as H1B Visas
Application Procedures
Application materials must be submitted by the closing date. Applicants who need special services or facilities due to disability in order to apply or interview for this position must notify Human Resources at the time of application or at least 72 hours prior to the closing date or date of a scheduled interview.
It is the applicant's responsibility to provide copies of all transcript(s) verifying all educational degree(s) and/or coursework required for the position. Transcripts must be from regionally accredited institutions. A foreign transcript must be evaluated by a NACES certified agency. The website address is www.naces.org.
Required Documents
Resume/Curriculum Vitae
Cover Letter
Copy of Transcripts (Must show all coursework completed and conferral date of the degree)
To apply, visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/cerritosedu/jobs/4061007/ft-educational-partnership-coordinator
The District ensures that all qualified applicants for employment and employees have full and equal access to employment opportunity, and are not subjected to discrimination in any program or activity of the District on the basis of national origin, religion, age, sex or gender, race, color, medical condition, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or because he or she is perceived to have one or more of the foregoing characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. .jeid-3240f4daddc5bc4fa9906412a566583c