Central Texas (CTX) Learning Festival Coordinator (Hourly)

Austin Community College; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 39,000 - 54,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Austin Community College in Austin, TX is seeking a Part-Time Central Texas Learning Festival Coordinator to support the annual CTX Learning Festival. You will coordinate partners, promote events, and help deliver a week of free learning experiences across Central Texas.

The role includes data management, event tracking, promotional design, social media coordination, and collaboration with community partners. Some travel within Central Texas is required.

Qualifications

• Experience planning events and coordinating communications for programs or festivals.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple partners, calendars, and promotional materials.
• Familiarity with basic web tools and social media promotion.
• Ability to travel within Central Texas for events as needed.

Responsibilities

• Data & Records: Coordinate a database of 200+ partners and contacts.
• Event Tracking: Maintain a list of 200+ events per festival cycle.
• Meeting Documentation: Organize monthly meeting information and notes.
• Promotional Materials: Design print and digital materials and maintain toolkit.
• Social Media: Coordinate collaborative social media promotion.
• Community Engagement: Identify and engage potential festival hosts and partners.
• Planning & Design: Create timelines and slide decks for planning.
• Website Operations: Publish events and maintain the festival website.
• Administrative Support: Schedule partner meetings and prepare agendas.
• Collaborate with festival partners to ensure smooth execution.

Skills

Event planning

Communication

Public engagement

Administrative support

Project management

Website operations

Graphic design basics

Tools

Google Suite

Canva

Zoom

SurveyMonkey

Website maintenance

Job description

Job Posting Title: Central Texas (CTX) Learning Festival Coordinator (Hourly)

Job Description Summary: The ACC School of Community Education is seeking a Part-Time Central Texas (CTX) Learning Festival Coordinator to support the Annual CTX Learning Festival—a celebration of learning in all its forms throughout Central Texas. In this role, you will help our team coordinate and promote the festival while collaborating with community partners and members to deliver a week of free and open learning experiences.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

Data & Record Coordination Database Maintenance: Coordinate and organize a database of 200+ partners, stakeholders, and general contacts.

Event Tracking: Maintain a frequently changing list of 200+ events per annual Festival cycle, including the maintenance of event submission form(s).

Meeting Documentation: Organize monthly meeting information and notes.

General Recordkeeping: Coordinate and organize overall Festival records and data.

Digital Promotion & Design Website Operations: Publish events to the website, maintain the site, and enhance user experience.

Social Media: Coordinate collaborative social media promotion.

Community & Stakeholder Engagement Outreach: Identify and engage potential Festival hosts, partners, and stakeholders.

Communications: Coordinate internal and external communications based on experience.

Administrative Support: Serve as a secondary contact for the organization, schedule Festival partner meetings, and create meeting agendas.

Collaboration: Work collaboratively with Festival partners.

Material & Tool Creation Planning & Slide Decks: Help create planning timelines and design slide decks.

Promotional Media: Design print and digital promotional materials.

Promotional Toolkit: Maintain and enhance partner promotional toolkit for event hosts.

Impact Analysis: Identify methods and assessment tools to analyze the impact and reach of Festival programming.

General Requirements

Love for Learning and Community.

Timeline Planning: Capability to help create planning timelines for the Festival.

Assist with setting milestones and actionable steps to achieve goals.

Adaptability: Ability to adapt workflows during cyclical periods of more intense work activity.

Travel: Some travel is required throughout the Central Texas region to attend events, as well as visit Festival hosts, partners, and stakeholders.

Knowledge of Event planning and coordinating processes.

Project Management Web design and maintenance Social Media Marketing Graphic Design Principles.

Skills Maintain an established yet flexible work schedule, including some evenings and weekends.

Effectively use interpersonal and communication skills, including tact and diplomacy.

Exceptional written communication skills.

Effectively use organization and planning skills, with attention to detail and follow-through.

Creating electronic presentations, information packages, and activity schedules.

Work collaboratively with others, include external community partners.

Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

Establish and maintain effective internal and external working relationships.

Technology Skills Google Suite Canva Zoom Survey tools, such as Survey Monkey Social Media Website maintenance.

Required Work Experience Event planning and communications. Creating promotional digital and print materials Social media marketing Safety Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Salary and Openings

Salary Rate $33.50/Hour

Number of Openings: 1

Job Posting Close Date: September 14, 2026

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans, and AD-D.
• Full-time faculty and staff employees who work in full-time and/or part-time positions at the college are eligible for ACC medical benefits effective the first of the month after their first 60 days of employment. Benefits include medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans, and AD-D.
• Hourly employees participate in the ACC Money Purchase Plan (ACCMPP) as a retirement program required by federal law.
• ACC participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP-Faculty and Administrators Only).

ACC does not participate in Social Security.

Legal and Compliance Information

Clery Act As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting. Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information. For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ([e-mail] ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Austin Community College (“ACC” or “College”) is an equal education and equal employment opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment at the college and access to its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 and older), veteran status or military service, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. This includes the prohibition of discrimination, including harassment, against any employee, applicant for employment, student, or applicant for admission. ACC will take steps to ensure that the lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in all educational and vocational programs.

Employment Benefits and Participation

Full-time faculty and staff employees who work in full-time and/or part-time positions at the college are eligible for ACC medical benefits effective the first of the month after their first 60 days of employment. Benefits include medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans, and AD-D. ACC does not participate in Social Security. ACC participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP-Faculty and Administrators Only). Hourly employees participate in the ACC Money Purchase Plan (ACCMPP) as a retirement program required by federal law.

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