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Position Summary:
The Program Coordinator is in charge of meeting and surpassing the goals and objectives for the educational programs offered by the Mechanical Engineering department in Northern Virginia. This is accomplished by ensuring that all activities and functions for a designated program be completed in accordance with stated priorities, time limitations, funding limitations, and/or other specifications. Sample responsibilities include but are not limited to, assistance to advertising, marketing, and outreach for a graduate program which is an extension of the Main Campus offerings, assistance to initiate a successful program, development of publicity material for the program, coordination with main campus and NCR staff for course offerings and scheduling of distance learning classrooms, coordination of the program with other College of Engineering programs and liaisons at NCR , coordination with other Virginia Tech units such as Alumni Office, office of the Dean and other departments at NCR as necessary, establishing a communication approach for prompt responses to inquiries about the program, services for guidance and advising to enrolled students and assistance for a variety of functions such as registration, developing program of study, creating/matching links to faculty and advisers (at both NCR and Blacksburg Campuses), organizing/processing thesis and dissertation applications, and academic procedural advising and counseling, among others.

Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent level of training and/or experience.
- Experience (higher is better) in higher education program development and management, marketing, publicity, and outreach.
- Employment experience providing higher level administration in a professional office environment.
- Bookkeeping/accounting experience.
- Proficiency utilizing computer software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Experience purchasing office supplies.
- Ability to work independently and with a team.
- Must have excellent customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Additional academic administration experience.
- Experience working with remote staff or team members.
- Experience using Banner databases or similar in other institutions for applications, student management, departmental human resources management, and financial management including fund accounting.
- Working knowledge of purchasing databases such as Hokiemart.
- Experience working with and managing data within Cloud data servers.
- Experience working in higher education.



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