First Year Programs is seeking a tech-savvy student passionate about supporting student success through effective communication. As the Communications and Engagement Student Coordinator (Comms StuCo), you will:
- Work collaboratively with staff and student leaders to enhance the first-year experience at UW
- Help manage and implement First-Year Networks
- Create and manage social media content for Instagram using Meta Business Suite
- Develop email communications through Jeto
- Produce photography and short videos
The ideal candidate is energetic, creative, and has strong digital communication skills.
Summary of work
The Communications and Engagement Student Coordinator will:
Communications and marketing (50%)
- Manage and implement a communications and marketing calendar for social media channels and email outreach
- Create marketing materials for social media channels including short video and photography
- Curate photo and video content for First Year Programs
- Develop New Husky Communications including “Tips from Dubs” emails
- Attend events, interview students, and use other outreach methods to promote and develop online engagement with FYP social media accounts
First-Year Networks (40%)
- Plan, implement, and facilitate two Networks events (including Network Event during Dawg Daze) during the 2025-2026 school year
- Create weekly emails that provide first-year students with opportunities to get connected to the UW community and UW resources
- Manage the First-Year Networks discord
- Manage the First-Year Networks sign-up process and form
- Be the primary contact for First-Year Networks students and manage FYEngage shared email inbox
- Conduct data tracking and assessment used to evaluate and improve the program
- Conduct individual reach-outs to caseload students in order to support student transitions
Other duties as assigned (10%)
- Support A&O programs as needed
- Support Dawg Daze as needed
- Be available for general FYP related tasks as assigned.
- Support the FYP Front Desk as needed.
- Actively engage with office activities and provide feedback on our procedures
Dates and hours
Start/end date: 6/16/25–6/12/26
Hourly wage: $20.76 (effective January 1, 2025)
Hours available:
- Summer quarter: 20 hrs/week
- Dawg Daze: 39.5 hours from 9/17-9/26 (including weekend and evening work)
- Autumn quarter: 12-19.5 hrs/week
- Winter quarter: 12-19.5 hrs/week
- Spring quarter: 12-19.5 hrs/week
Required qualifications
- Full-time, degree-seeking, undergraduate student on the Seattle campus with a graduation date no earlier than June of 2026
- Good academic and conduct standing prior to and throughout the entire term of employment.
- Must be able to work June 2025–June 2026 with a minimum of
- 15 hours during fall, winter and spring quarter
- 20 hours during Summer 2025 (beginning June 16)
- Available to work the weekend of September 19-21, hours to be determined.
- 39.5 hours during Dawg Daze (September 17-26) (will flex hours once school begins)
- Must have a high attention to detail
- Must be flexible and able to work in a fast paced environment
- Must be able to effectively communicate thought process, project status, and context to multiple supervisors
Desired qualifications
- Experience crafting detailed written communication that is accessible to various audiences
- Experience planning, implementing, and evaluating social media communications
- Experience with video production
- Comfortable interacting in-person with students and campus partners
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently
- Previous experience running or planning events
- Previous experience with Microsoft Office
Application
Our intent in asking these questions is to gain insight into your perspective and a sense of who you are. Strong responses are thoughtful, sincere, complete, well-organized, and fall between the word limits identified for each question. We encourage you to compose your responses elsewhere and copy/paste into the application text boxes. Your responses are limited to 250 words per question, so please double-check that your responses fit after you paste them into the application.
- Why are you interested in taking on the role of Communications and Engagement Student Coordinator?
- This position is a mix of communications to a general audience and specific groups of students, as well as event management and content creation. Which one of these roles is most exciting to you and why?
- Describe a time when you successfully balanced competing deadlines. What organizational systems did you use?
- What aspects of UW student life are you most passionate about? How would you incorporate this passion into your communications and Networks planning to create authentic connections with first-year students?
In addition to these questions, you will be asked to complete and submit the following event promotion design challenge:
These three events are happening in the same week, and we want to promote them to our new students:
An Evening with Christine Sun Kim (Wednesday, April 30)
Free 1st Thursday Arboretum Public Tour (Thursday, May 1)
Botanical Print-Making Workshop (Saturday, May 3)
Please create a single Instagram post that effectively promotes these three events. You can choose how you would like to convey the information, but it must include at least one image (or multiple if you are creating a carousel format post) and a caption that you will submit after uploading your image(s).
Your design should maintain visual cohesion and establish a clear information hierarchy while adhering to UW branding requirements: UW Brand Resources and Guidelines. Please refer to the image below for recommendations for image dimensions and ratios:
