Event Planning and Coordination: Responsible for coordinating events, speaker series, and faculty-sponsored conferences; plans events, identifies vendors, and confers with stakeholders regarding logistics, event goals, and objectives. Manages all event details including catering, entertainment, room reservation, transportation, venue, invitee list, special guests, equipment, AV, dcor, and promotional material. Process administrative documents for events, including contracts, foreign and domestic, travel, entertainment expenses, honoraria, and events ProCard. Assist with department processes as requested, including vouchers (travel, reimbursement, purchasing, entertainment, etc.) and approvals, shipping, records management, and correspondence.Public Relations and Outreach: Manage department website and social media accounts; coordinate, manage and create department public relations and outreach efforts including alumni engagement, ad hoc or recurring chair priorities, general publicizing of department achievements and initiatives, collaboration with COLA Public Affairs or others on e-newsletters or similar initiatives, and related activities.Alumni: Help track alumni placement; help collect and manage admissions and placement data; conduct alumni outreach.Graduate Program Support: Assist Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement with recruitment publicity, graduate placement publicity, job candidate website presence, and other public-facing outreach.Other related functions as assigned.