Recruiting Specialist (Grant Funded)

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Recruit eligible students, nontraditional learners, incumbent healthcare workers, adult learners, displaced workers, individuals seeking entry or advancement in healthcare careers, and other priority populations through grant objectives.
• Develop and implement a strategic recruitment plan for Health Science Professions programs and grant-supported healthcare pathways.
• Assists with recruitment activities with high schools, early college high schools, community organizations, healthcare employers, workforce partners, adult education programs, and regional stakeholders.
• Represent the Division of Health Science Professions at recruitment events, career fairs, school visits, employer meetings, community presentations, and grant-related outreach activities.
• Promote healthcare pathways to all Health Science Professions programs.
• Maintain a recruitment calendar and document outreach events, campus tours, attendance, contacts, referrals, and follow-up actions.
• Provide first-level guidance to prospective students healthcare career pathways.
• Conduct intake and follow-up with prospective students to identify any educational barriers including but not limited to academic, financial, transportation, childcare, technology, language, employment, or scheduling barriers.
• Refer students to appropriate institutional departments, including admissions, advising, financial aid, counseling, testing, tutoring, disability services, career services, and program faculty.
• Track participant progress from inquiry to application, admission, enrollment, program participation, completion, credential attainment, and employment or continued education.
• Support the U.S. DOL grant deliverable by increasing the number of eligible participants recruited, enrolled, retained, and successfully progressing in Health Science Professions pathways.
• Maintain documentation required for grant compliance, including outreach logs, participant contact records, eligibility documentation where applicable, referral records, enrollment data, progress updates, completion data, and employment-related information.
• Assist with the preparation of quarterly, annual, and final grant reports by providing accurate recruitment, enrollment, retention, completion, and participant outcome data.
• Support recruitment of incumbent healthcare workers into upskilling, reskilling, bridge, apprenticeship, and credential pathways.
• Support targeted communication campaigns for prospective students, applicants, stop-outs, incumbent workers, and community partners.
• Maintain accurate and auditable records of recruitment activities, participant contacts, referrals, events, follow-up contacts, and student outcomes.
• Collaborate with Health Science Professions program chairs, faculty, staff, advising, admissions, financial aid, testing, student support services, continuing education, workforce programs, and employer partners.
• Support division-wide recruitment priorities that expand access to healthcare education and strengthen the regional workforce pipeline.
• Serves as Campus Security Authority
• Attends departmental and divisional staff meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required. Health Science or healthcare preferred.
• At least two (2) years of experience in Healthcare, or Educational setting preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish).
• Strong computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, the Windows environment, and internet research skills.
• Critical thinking and data analysis skills.
• Knowledge of student information systems.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and complete multiple tasks with attention to detail, within stated deadlines.
• Ability to work independently as well as a team player within department and with others.
• Ability to adapt to constant change and periods of fast-paced, high-intensity work situations.
• Ability to work evenings and/or weekends as needed; willing to travel throughout the college district using own means of reliable transportation.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries from groups of students, faculty, staff, and the general public.
• Ability to apply practical understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Security Sensitive position: All applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
• Must have or qualify for a valid Texas driver's license and proof of liability insurance.

Physical Requirements

• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Mobility to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Organization

Founded in 1993, South Texas College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and offers more than 120 degree & certificate options, including associate degrees in a variety of liberal art, social science, business, math, science, technology, advanced manufacturing and allied health fields of study. Additionally, South Texas College is the only community college in the State of Texas to offer four baccalaureate degrees. South Texas College has a faculty and staff of more than 2,700 to serve the college's five campuses, two higher education centers, and one virtual campus.

Since 2000, the Dual Credit Programs has served over 100,000 high school students at 70 high school sites, saving families over 200 million dollars in tuition.

South Texas College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the Baccalaureate and Associate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of South Texas College.