External Partnerships Specialist

Serves as a central coordinator for community focused engagement by connecting the University with nonprofit, community, and regional partners. Coordinates, prioritizes, and advances partnership requests across academic units. Supports structured engagement frameworks and advances strategic goals related to community impact, transparency, and the University’s role as an anchor institution.

• Serves as a primary operational point of contact for community and nonprofit partners by coordinating and triaging partnership requests.
• Routes requests to appropriate academic units, staff, or administrators and supports consistent, responsive communication to reduce duplicative or uncoordinated outreach.
• Supports structured engagement processes for community facing academic units by assisting with coordination, follow up, and documentation of community engagement activities.
• Ensures timely and accurate documentation of community partnerships and engagement activities in institutional data systems to support transparency, reporting, and data informed decision making.
• Supports data collection and reporting efforts related to the University’s community engagement activities.
• Assists in coordinating experience driven learning opportunities by connecting faculty, students, and community partners.
• Supports alignment between community identified needs and appropriate academic or co curricular programs.
• Provides coordination support for community coalitions and regional initiatives aligned with the University’s anchor institution role.
• Performs additional coordination and administrative duties as assigned to support external engagement initiatives.

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

• Bachelor's degree in related field from an accredited institution, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Two years' relevant experience.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong relationship management skills.

• Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours, including evenings and weekends
• Ability to travel.

Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.

Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2026-06-02