Note: Please use the CSUM email when applying for this position.

Working Title: Enrollment and Marketing Student Assistant

Classification Title: Student Assistant

Department Name: Enrollment and Marketing

Time Base: Part-time

Hours to be Worked: Up to 20 hours per week

Supervisor's Name:  Cecilia Santos

Pay Plan: Hourly

Bargaining Unit:  Excluded (E99)

Employment Type: Temporary

Pay Level and Pay Rate: 

• Level:  2  
• Hourly Rate:  $16.50

Application Deadline: Open until filled.

Job Summary:  Support efforts across enrollment which includes admission, financial aid, the registrar and retention, and marketing. Lead information sessions and campus tours for prospective students, families, counselors, and community-based organizations. Help manage the website and 3 social media accounts. Drop off info in the community. Represent campus at select on- and off-campus events. Sit at the front desk in Mayo Hall. Answer emails and phones. Data entry. Perform select research. Data analysis. Run on-campus errands.

About the California State University Maritime Academy:

Established in 1929, California State University Maritime Academy, a campus of the California State University, is the only degree-granting maritime academy on the West Coast. Located on the scenic Vallejo waterfront, the campus serves a student population of approximately 1000 undergraduates and 50 graduate students.

Cal Maritime offers seven baccalaureate degrees in Business Administration, International Strategy and Security, Facilities Engineering Technology, Marine Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Marine Transportation, and Oceanography. The undergraduate curriculum includes licensing programs for future merchant marine, Coast Guard, and naval reserve officers. Cal Maritime also offers a Master of Science in Transportation and Engineering Management degree, as well as a number of extended learning programs and courses.

Job Duties:

Several ambassador roles are available:

1. Tour guide (escort individuals, families, and groups around campus projecting your voice and walking backward)

2. Social Media (help to manage existing Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts and pave the way for new outlets)

3. Office (sit at Mayo Hall front desk, answer emails, errands, events, data entry, filing, mail, phones, presentation creation, print, text, website, and scheduling)

4. Recruitment (represent Cal Maritime at off-campus local and virtual events to prospective students, community-based organizations, and secondary and post-secondary school staff)

Required Qualifications: 

• Must have a valid California Driver's License and satisfactory standing
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal, written, listening) skills
• Reliable, shows up on time
• Excellent communication (verbal, written, listening) skills
• At ease in diverse, and large and small groups
• Sense of humor, enthusiasm
• Willing to learn and open to coaching and mentoring
• Attention to detail
• No one has all of this. If you love Cal Maritime and are doing well in your studies - apply, we will train you on everything you need to know!
• Confidentiality Agreement to be signed upon hire.

Background Check: Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check, DMV records check, and fingerprinting) is required for employment. CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position.

Mandated Reporter: The person holding this position is considered a ‘mandated reporter’ under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 revised July 21, 2017, as a condition of employment.

Eligibility to Work:  Applicants must provide proof of U.S. citizenship or authorization to work in the United States within three days of the date of hire.

Title IX: Please view the Notice of Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender or Sex and Contact Information for Title IX Coordinator at: https://www2.calstate.edu/titleix

EEO Statement: Cal Maritime is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. The university subscribes to all state and federal regulations and prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity/gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information, medical condition, covered veteran status, or any other protected status.  Reasonable Accommodations will be provided to applicants with qualifying disabilities who self-disclose by contacting the Benefits Coordinator at (707) 654-1146.

Application Procedure: Click "APPLY NOW" to complete the Cal Maritime Online Employment Application and attach the following documents: cover letter and resume. 

Disclaimer: The provisions of this job bulletin do not constitute an expressed or implied contract and any provisions contained may be modified or changed.