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Job outlook for education and outreach coordinators in the United States
Education and outreach coordinator job growth summary. After extensive research, interviews, and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:
The projected education and outreach coordinator job growth rate is 12% from 2018-2028.
About 52,400 new jobs for education and outreach coordinators are projected over the next decade.
Education and outreach coordinator salaries have increased 13% for education and outreach coordinators in the last 5 years.
There are over 3,595 education and outreach coordinators currently employed in the United States.
There are 45,997 active education and outreach coordinator job openings in the US.
The average education and outreach coordinator salary is $42,716.
Are education and outreach coordinator jobs in demand?
Education and outreach coordinator job and salary trends over time
Education and outreach coordinator jobs over time
Education and outreach coordinator job growth rate over time
| Year | # of jobs | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3,595 | 0.00% |
| 2020 | 3,609 | 0.00% |
| 2019 | 3,650 | 0.00% |
| 2018 | 3,541 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 3,466 | 0.00% |
Average education and outreach coordinator salary over time
Education and outreach coordinator salary by year
| Year | Avg. salary | Hourly rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $42,716 | $20.54 | +2.6% |
| 2024 | $41,647 | $20.02 | +3.9% |
| 2023 | $40,091 | $19.27 | +1.9% |
| 2022 | $39,343 | $18.91 | +4.1% |
| 2021 | $37,786 | $18.17 | +3.2% |
Education and outreach coordinator jobs by state
Most common states for education and outreach coordinators
| Rank | State | Population | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 170 | 24% |
| 2 | Delaware | 961,939 | 206 | 21% |
| 3 | Kansas | 2,913,123 | 581 | 20% |
| 4 | North Dakota | 755,393 | 143 | 19% |
| 5 | New Mexico | 2,088,070 | 365 | 17% |
| 6 | Idaho | 1,716,943 | 234 | 14% |
| 7 | South Dakota | 869,666 | 125 | 14% |
| 8 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 789 | 12% |
| 9 | Oklahoma | 3,930,864 | 462 | 12% |
| 10 | New Hampshire | 1,342,795 | 164 | 12% |
| 11 | Vermont | 623,657 | 75 | 12% |
| 12 | Alabama | 4,874,747 | 547 | 11% |
| 13 | Alaska | 739,795 | 83 | 11% |
| 14 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 496 | 9% |
| 15 | Connecticut | 3,588,184 | 335 | 9% |
| 16 | Montana | 1,050,493 | 98 | 9% |
| 17 | Wyoming | 579,315 | 51 | 9% |
| 18 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 455 | 8% |
| 19 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 429 | 8% |
| 20 | Maine | 1,335,907 | 88 | 7% |
Most common cities for education and outreach coordinators
| Rank | City | # of jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amherst | 2 | 5% | $45,082 |
Education And Outreach Coordinator job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of education and outreach coordinator experts
University of Houston - Downtown
Saint Xavier University
Winona State University
Grand Valley State University
Rider University
Fontbonne University
Seattle University
East Tennessee State University
American University
Carolyn Gascoigne
Professor of French and HumanitiesUniversity of Houston - Downtown
Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities
What general advice would you give to an Education And Outreach Coordinator?
Carolyn Gascoigne: Nonprofit coordinators are often involved with planning and organizing public outreach activities.
What will help Education And Outreach Coordinators increase their earning potential?
Carolyn Gascoigne: Nonprofit coordinators are often involved with planning and organizing public outreach activities.
What Education And Outreach Coordinator skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Carolyn Gascoigne: Example A: Nonprofit coordinators are often involved with planning and organizing public outreach activities. This is a good profession to enter as international companies are increasingly looking to hire individuals to help them better understand and connect to their international markets. People who enjoy travel and interacting with others, and who are self-starters, tend to enjoy this field. It may be challenging otherwise.
Laura Laskowski-Ferrell
Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Program CoordinatorSaint Xavier University
Education Department
What soft skills should all Education And Outreach Coordinators possess?
Laura Laskowski-Ferrell: -Timely Communication
-Program Organization
-Visionary Leadership
-Team Player
What skills stand out on Education And Outreach Coordinator resumes?
Steven Baule: The key focus for any educational leader must be the ability to improve learner outcomes. This can be measured in a wide range of ways, from graduation rates, test scores, improved attendance rates, etc. A second important consideration for an educational leader is the ability to manage professional development and mentor the educators under their charge. Given today's mixture of remote and traditional learning, experience in engaging online students will be sought after. Experience in leading or working in diverse settings will also be highly desirable.
What soft skills should all Education And Outreach Coordinators possess?
Steven Baule: Communications skills are essential for all leaders regardless of industry. Educational leaders have to be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders ranging from students through parents to staff and community leaders. Skills and experience in managing student behaviors are often one of the most sought-after sets of soft skills, and aspiring educational leaders will nearly always be queried on their experiences on this front during interviews.
What's a good job out of college for Education And Outreach Coordinators?
Sherie Williams: Even in this new world of virtual contact, teaching is an important profession that still allows new graduates to impact the future.
What are the biggest trends we'll see in the Education And Outreach Coordinator job market given the pandemic?
Lauren Nicolosi: I think we're seeing a lot of remote opportunities, or those that are flexible in format. Because some roles don't translate to remote work as well, though, we're definitely seeing that some students are having to be creative in finding opportunities outside of what they initially planned for.
Dr. Kelley Barger
Chair, Department of Education/Special Education, Professor in Education, Director of Reading ProgramsFontbonne University
Department of Education/Special Education
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Education And Outreach Coordinators?
Dr. Kelley Barger: There will be enduring impact on our students and our classrooms from the Coronavirus pandemic as they will face classrooms that look very different when they graduate and begin their teaching journey. Our Fontbonne University graduates have faced many quick shifts in instruction and expectations for social interaction in the classroom. In Education courses, we are teaching our students to face these quick changes in their future classrooms so we must model new tools and classrooms environments. As faculty, we had to shift and learn at a fast pace to move our classrooms online for remote learning. Our students had to adjust to remote classrooms and online dissemination of material. I have learned in the last 8 months how flexible our students are with change. Many of the online tools have been available to us for many years but the pandemic created a compressed learning curve for those who can learn and thrive and those who will fall behind. When our current graduates enter the field, they will be prepared to use these online tools to supplement their classrooms whether on ground or online.
What experience really stands out on Education And Outreach Coordinator resumes?
Dr. Kelley Barger: I look at work experience paired with the candidate's educational background. When I look at their academics and then I see work experience that is not using that education, I wonder why. Secondly, I look at volunteerism and if that is on their resume to see if they made time for those in their field that don't fall into a paid position. This tells me where their motivation comes from.
Theresa Earenfight Ph.D.
Professor of History, Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies ProgramSeattle University
History Department
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Education And Outreach Coordinators?
Theresa Earenfight Ph.D.: As a historian of the European Middle Ages, I'm struck by how students this past year have acquired something scarce: historical empathy. The past can seem so remote, so very different from our lived experiences today, and this can make history seem irrelevant. But this fall, I was teaching a section on the bubonic plague, which historians of medicine now know was a global pandemic, not just an epidemic in Europe. Usually, students are fascinated by the gruesome medical details, but not this group.
They did not need or want to look death in the eyes. They wanted to know how did people react? How did they get back to normal? When we ticked off the list of reactions--fear, distrust of science (such as it was in 1348), xenophobia, scapegoating, economic collapse, hoarding supplies, turn to religion, gallows humor about worms crawling about corpses--they got it. When we talked about the aftermath--eat, drink, be merry, and protest the inequality--they got it. That is historical empathy, and I'm sad that this was how it had to be learned, but it will give them broader compassion that can encompass people alive today.
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Education And Outreach Coordinators?
Dr. Frederick Gordon Ph.D.: Graduate students will need to refocus on the changing institutional role, being both remote and in-person, and impacting agency goals and performance.
How do you envision technology impacting Education And Outreach Coordinators in the next 5 years?
Dr. Adelaide Kelly-Massoud: Well, every teacher and teacher candidate was thrust into distance learning. Misguided attempts to foster understanding often leaned our adult distant learning pedagogy. Teachers, and those who prepare teachers, found their job to research, define, design, and implement meaningful teaching and learning using a virtual platform. Words such as synchronous and asynchronous are now a part of our everyday vernacular. But there is a much more optimistic change on the horizon that we can thank coronavirus for.
Communication and collaboration have been forced to change. Parents and Teachers are more connected and have been put in a position to leverage technology to build networks of support and consistent dialog. I urge teachers to leverage this in their future as we work to reopening schools; we should learn from this experience to leverage technology to keep us connected.