It hopefully goes without saying that student engagement is one of the underpinning features of education.
Introduce yourself as a student engagement coordinator, however, and not everyone will fully understand what you mean.
For many in our sector, jobs can be conveyed in simple terms. Lecturer, librarian, secretary, estates manager or accountant require no significant explanation for a lay person. It’s at least partly due to that clarity and recognisability (and also of course the sheer numbers in these various disciplines) that so many roles in education are easy to capture in professional frameworks and recognition schemes.
