Assists in writing content, designing layout, and creating digital newsletters, reports, and distribution campaigns.
Formats and prepares promotional flyers, event graphics, informational brochures, signs, and program handouts.
Coordinates routine website updates, including posting upcoming events, research updates, and new resources.
Assists with basic photo and video capture at center events.
Community Outreach & Event Tabling
Serves as the primary center representative for community exhibits, health fairs, senior expos, and outreach events throughout Northern Utah.
Manages tabling logistics: packs event supplies, loads vehicles, transports materials, sets up and breaks down display booths and banners, and actively staffs tables to interact with attendees and distribute center resources.
Works with students who may also be tabling an event.
Coordinates logistical details for center webinars, meetings, and public forums (e.g., Zoom links, room reservations, catering/supplies, and attendee check-in).
Administrative & Office Operations
Performs general office management tasks including scheduling meetings, filing, processing routine purchasing paperwork, monitoring inventories, and ordering outreach swag/supplies.
Answers general center phone inquiries and monitors the main email inbox using standardized reply guidelines.
Helps onboard, guide, and assign daily operational tasks to undergraduate student interns or hourly workers.
Supports the center in all reporting and compliance.
Research Registry & Participant Support
Assists with data entry, routine monitoring, and record maintenance for the ADRC Research Registry database.
Maintains strict compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB) ethics and confidentiality requirements.
Connects interested community registrants with appropriate active research studies.
General Support
Performs miscellaneous program-related and clerical duties as assigned by center leadership.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Four years of experience; or an associate degree/technical training plus two years of experience; or a bachelor’s degree is required.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
News story and Press Release writing skills.
College-level writing skills with familiarity in AP Style.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Communications: Collaborate with the college Communications Team to extend marketing and communication support, ensuring synergy between the ADRC and college efforts. Serve as a college communicator for the ADRC. Create written content for newsletters, email campaigns, brochures, social media, and the ADRC website.
Digital Media: Create visual materials and formatting layouts using digital design tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Suite). Familiarity with scheduling/managing social media platforms and email marketing tools (e.g., Constant Contact).
Outreach & Event Coordination: Ability to organize and execute logistics for in-person community events, tabling exhibits, and virtual webinars. Comfortable transporting, assembling, and staffing promotional booths.
Interpersonal & Community Engagement: Professional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage warmly, clearly, and respectfully with older adults, family caregivers, community partners, students, and university staff.
Data & Office Systems: Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook), basic spreadsheet and database record-keeping, and general office equipment.
Organizational & Time Management: Strong organizational skills with the ability to balance competing deadlines, manage supply inventories, and maintain detailed records.
Ethics & Confidentiality: Ability to handle sensitive data with discretion and pass research ethics training to obtain CITI certification.
Problem Solving & Initiative: Ability to take initiative on assigned tasks and solve routine workflow challenges while working under the general direction of the Director and Program Coordinator.
Required Documents
Along with the online application, please attach
Resume to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Resume/CV”
Contact information for three professional references to be entered in the Candidate Profile
Cover letter to be typed/pasted at the end of your application
Please do not upload any documents other than your resume to your candidate profile. You will be instructed to type/paste the cover letter into the end of your application.
Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**
- Advertised Salary
- Commensurate based on experience, plus excellent benefits
ADA
Employees typically work in an office environment and are protected from weather conditions or contaminants, but not necessarily occasional temperature changes. However, in certain instances employees may work outdoors and may not be protected from weather conditions. Employees could be exposed to hazardous chemicals. Employees nearly continuously sit and often use repetitive hand motion (such as typing). Bending and stooping is occasionally required. Employees nearly continuously listen, hear, and talk. Travel around Northern Utah is occasionally required.
College/Department Highlights
The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services is home to eight academic departments and is committed to providing the best learning opportunities and educational research in the state of Utah. Our programs are strengthened by an on-campus elementary laboratory school and five stand-alone centers. The college offers clinical services to the community across the human lifespan and provides students with real-world service and research opportunities.
University Highlights
As Utah’s student-centered, land-grant research university, Utah State University expands opportunity and strengthens communities across the state through learning, discovery, extension, and engagement. Founded in 1888, USU now holds two Carnegie distinctions: R1 status for very high research activity and the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. Its innovative research and scholarship is grounded in reciprocal partnerships with local, regional, and global communities, advancing knowledge and serving the public good across Utah, the nation, and the world. With over 50 world-class research facilities and the nation’s second-oldest undergraduate research program, USU prepares students to become active, civically engaged leaders who can address critical societal challenges.
USU enrolls over 29,800 students, both online and in person at locations throughout the state. Utah State’s 30 locations include a main campus in Logan, Utah, residential campuses in Price and Blanding, and six additional statewide campuses, along with education centers serving every county. USU educates students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. For over 100 years, USU Extension has served and engaged Utahns, serving every county in the state.
Competing at the NCAA Division I level in 16 sports, USU is a proud member of the Pac-12 Conference, which it joined July 1, 2026. The Aggies capped a historic final season in the Mountain West by capturing nine combined regular-season and tournament titles in 2025-26, with five teams advancing to postseason play. This tradition of excellence extends to the classroom, where 232 student-athletes earned academic honors, and to the community, where USU ranked second nationally in Division I service hours, with nine teams placing in the top 10 for community service.
Utah State is dedicated to fostering a community where all individuals feel respected, valued, and supported and where diversity of thought and culture are cultivated. We seek to recruit, hire, and retain people from all walks of life who will champion excellence in education, research, discovery, outreach, and service. We believe that promoting a strong sense of community and belonging empowers and engages all members of USU to thrive and be successful. Forbes recognized our commitment to employees when it named Utah State the best employer in Utah in 2023. Learn more about USU.
The university provides a Dual Career Assistance Program to support careers for partners who are also seeking employment. Additionally, USU is committed to providing access and a reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, contact the university’s ADA coordinator in the Office of Human Resources at 435-797-0122 or hr@usu.edu.
updated 10/26
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In all circumstances, Utah State University follows state and federal laws related to sex-segregated spaces.
The following individuals have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations and/or USU’s non-discrimination policies:
Matthew Pinner
Executive Director
Civil Rights & Title IX Office
matthew.pinner@usu.edu
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1475 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322
Cody Carmichael
Title IX Coordinator
cody.carmichael@usu.edu
435-797-1266 | Old Main Rm. 402D
1475 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322
For further information regarding non-discrimination, please visit crtix.usu.edu or contact:
U.S. Department of Education
Denver Regional Office
303-844-5695| OCR.Denver@ed.gov
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
800-421-3481 | OCR@ed.gov
updated 10/2025
