The Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics seeks to hire a responsible and creative Graduate Program Professional Coordinator. This individual will work independently to administer and manage the Department's graduate programs and provide selected support activities under the supervision of the Graduate Director and the Department Head. Responsibilities of this position will include, but are not limited to: Assisting in recruiting prospective students and advising current students on departmental programs (4+1, Online MS, Traditional MS, PhD, and graduate certificates), providing academic information and initial advising, managing applications, assistantship awards and course registrations; Promote, recruit and advise for the departmental 4+1 and Graduate Dual enrollment programs within the department and beyond; Providing student support services for the graduate program including progress reports, plans of study, student outcome assessments, graduate student office space, and HR administration of graduate student employment, including assistantship agreements; Serve as the department's primary point-of-contact with the Graduate School to ensure policy compliance and strategic alignment; Assist faculty in the department in managing the college and university governance process when creating new graduate courses, graduate certificates, etc.; The ability to assist faculty in identifying internal funding sources for graduate students;
Work with the Communications Manager in the development of marketing and recruitment materials through all appropriate outlets (e.g., website, social media, department screens, power points, flyers, etc.), assisting with development and maintenance of an AAEC graduate alumni database for the purpose of follow-up contact, highlighting the achievements of alumni, and alumni engagement in general.
Serve on various committees to support the department's development, improvement; Maintain Departmental key inventory and distribute keys appropriately; Providing redundancy with the Assistant Director for Business Operations to cover key responsibilities when this person is unavailable such as new hire paperwork and Banner transactions; Maintaining and enhancing personal knowledge of relevant software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint access, Adobe, Acrobat banner, Hokie, spa, Submittable and others.
