Community Outreach Specialist

📍 Bakersfield, CA (Remote / Field-Based)
Are you someone who loves meeting new people, building relationships, and making a real impact in your community?
National University is looking for a Outreach Specialist to represent the university across the Bakersfield region, building meaningful relationships with employers, community organizations, and workforce leaders to connect individuals with life-changing educational opportunities.
This is a highly visible, field-based role where you will network, present, and collaborate with organizations across healthcare, public safety, corporate partners, and community groups.
If you enjoy business development, public speaking, and community engagement, this role offers the autonomy to build partnerships that help individuals advance their education while supporting workforce development across the region.
With general supervision, the Outreach Specialist champions the growth for National University’s educational partnerships and community outreach to grow university enrollments, brand awareness, and address current and future workforce education demands in an assigned territory/region. Plans and implements outreach strategies and actions, as well as represents the University to external constituents (e.g. corporate and healthcare partners, government partners, education agencies, public safety agencies, military installations, professional associations, etc.). Builds and sustains working relationships with Workforce & Community Education’s (WCE) list of clients and priority prospective partner organizations to promote the University’s vision, mission, and values. Represents Workforce & Community Education and National University within the university, the community, across industries and throughout the community-at-large in an assigned territory/region.
Essential Functions:
Contacts prospects (email, telephone, face-to-face, direct mail, and networking events) to schedule meetings and explain/answer questions and conduct p...