Specialist - Outreach-Continuing

Specialist
- Outreach-Continuing

Assistant Program Director
- Envision Green

The Michigan State University Office of Undergraduate Education oversees undergraduate academic policies and facilitates institutional wide initiatives focused on enhancing undergraduate learning. We engage in everything from the orientation and welcome of first-year students to the enhancement and oversight of selected academic programs and co-curricular initiatives. Focused around the five opportunity areas for student success, Undergrad Ed seeks to ensure every student MSU admits can learn, thrive, and graduate.

Program Overview

Envision Green is a partnership between Michigan State University and Michigan-based community colleges, with Lansing Community College as its flagship partnership program. Envision Green is designed to support students as they explore, prepare for, and successfully navigate transferring to Michigan State University. Through intentional academic, professional, social, and support connections, Envision Green helps students build a sense of belonging, strengthen transfer readiness, and develop clear pathways toward becoming a Spartan and succeeding at Michigan State University.

The program leverages collaborative partnerships, student engagement strategies, and data-informed practices to improve student participation, transfer success, persistence, and degree attainment. Envision Green contributes to the university's commitment to student success, educational access, and degree completion.

Position Overview

The Assistant Program Director (APD) serves as a key member of the Envision Green leadership team and reports directly to the Program Director to ensure the seamless execution of the Envision Green strategic plan, including student and community engagement goals. The APD provides leadership for Envision Green partnerships and serves as a primary liaison with designated partners.

The APD serves as the primary coordinator of programming activities at Lansing Community College (LCC) and a co-designer of student engagement initiatives and outreach efforts in support of transfer student success.

Working collaboratively with the Program Director, the APD helps develop and implement strategic initiatives that support student participation and transfer readiness. A core responsibility of this role is to closely track students from their time at LCC through their retention and degree completion at MSU and lead program evaluations to measure student engagement and outcomes against established objectives.

This position engages with community college students and work takes place primarily at Lansing Community College.

This position requires transportation of students to and from program events through MSU's Motor Pool services. This position also requires occasional evening and weekend work to support program activities and events.

Outreach (50%) Strategic Leadership, Partnership Development, and Representation

• Support leadership of Envision Green partnership initiatives and contribute to the development and strengthening of strategic partnerships.
• Serve as the programming lead for Lansing Community College partnership and support engagement with other designated partners, as assigned.
• Serve as a key liaison between Lansing Community College and Michigan State University.
• Partner with campus and community stakeholders to develop events that support program goals.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with faculty, staff, and administrators at Lansing Community College and other designated partners, as assigned.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with MSU faculty, staff, and administrators focused on transfer student success.
• Represent Envision Green and Educational Partnerships at university, community, regional, and statewide events.

Other (30%) Student Engagement and Success Initiatives, Operations

• Collaborate with the Program Director on strategic planning, implementation, and continuous improvement of Envision Green initiatives.
• Lead Envision Green student programming and event development at Lansing Community College and with additional community college partners. This function includes developing events and programs from start to finish, accounting for all related logistics such as transportation, necessary supplies, event registration, event promotion (in partnership with communications staff), and programming evaluations.
• Organize and coordinate academic, professional, social, and support-focused programs and events.
• Develop and implement student engagement strategies that support transfer readiness and successful transition to Michigan State University.
• Provide 1:1 student engagement with community college students to foster continued participation in Envision Green activities and services and ensure successful transition to MSU.
• Provide support to and participate in activities related to the Envision Green Advisory Group as directed.
• Assist with budget planning, purchasing, expenditure monitoring, and…