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The Democratic Civic Engagement Coor.

Position Summary

The Democratic Civic Engagement Coordinator will serve as the point person for non-partisan democratic civic engagement efforts at Michigan State University, under the auspices of the Center for Community Engaged Learning and the Office of Community and Student Relations. The coordinator will work to increase and sustain student participation in the democratic process and to support the institution in closing gaps in voting rates, through voter mobilization and civic education. A primary focus of this role is to support the MSU vote Campus and Community Initiative, comprised of faculty, staff, students, and community organizations involved in promoting voter engagement efforts at MSU.

Characteristic Duties:

• Manages and facilitates events, meetings, conferences, voting registration drives, and voting programs and projects.
• Supervises interns, fellows, and scholars working on democratic engagement efforts.
• Provides administrative support for the MSUvote initiative.
• Develops and coordinates educational materials for use in classrooms and in the co-curriculum. Coordinates resources and opportunities with multiple national organizations and networks of engaged colleagues.
• Facilitates training sessions on democratic engagement and voting.
• Manages updates to the MSUvote website.
• Maintains MSUvote Social Media Accounts.
• Designs promotional materials.

Responsibilities:

Supports Democratic Engagement work with the strategic goal of increasing student participation in the democratic process through voter and civic engagement efforts.

Provides support for campus-wide voter registration, elections, and engagement efforts.

Develops and supports on-campus processes to increase student voter registration and participation.

Actively builds partnerships with campus and community partners to grow the coalition to support goals.

Drafts campus communications, oversees social media, and works in tandem with the SLE, UOE, and University Communications teams.

Creates reports that summarize voter engagement activities, successes, and future planning to be shared with many national, local, and campus partners including the All In Action Plan and Voter Friendly Campus.

Coordinates in-person and online voter registration efforts, collaborates with student groups to train and staff tabling events, and partners with SLE, University Communications and other campus units to create and deliver social media content, event promotions/plans.

Partners with campus units to establish student voter registration as a key element of the campus culture, via new and transfer student orientation and at major fall/spring events.

Represents MSUvote in network calls with the following national groups including the Big Ten Voting Challenge, All in Democracy Challenge, Voter Friendly Campus, and Campus Vote Project. Supports the Big Ten Voting Challenge and utilizes NSLVE (National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement) and other data and reports to tell the story of MSUvote, as well as to illustrate challenges and opportunities in democratic civic engagement.

Collaborates and supports CCEL to foster civic and democratic engagement and develop and implement new training/workshops to educate and prepare students to participate in the democratic process more fully.

Engages via Community & Student Relations to collaborate with municipal and public-service leaders.

Facilitates relationships with community partners for the development and educational programs and presentations.

Develops learning outcomes for workshops, training sessions and program specific goals and measurements for success; administers assessments and makes program changes as needed. Ident