Academic Program Coordinator I

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech’s faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech’s Mission and Values 
Georgia Tech’s mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
•  We strive for excellence.
•  We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the well-being of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information
The School of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) has 42 academic faculty, 30 research faculty and post-docs, approximately 100 visiting scholars and Tech Temps, and 27 administrative and technical staff.  The School is housed in five buildings and continues to diversify and expand the academic and research programs.  To learn more about MSE, visit: www.mse.gatech.edu

Provide administrative and logistical support to assigned degreed and/or non-degreed academic program offerings of an Institute college or school. Facilitate the various actions required to successfully offer and conduct academic programs. These actions may range from student recruitment to course evaluation. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: faculty members, prospects, students, vendors. This position typically will advise and counsel: prospects, students, vendors. This position will supervise:  NA

• Coordinate the application process through response to prospect inquires, scheduling interviews, maintaining applicant records, etc.
• Oversee student recruitment/program promotional event preparation.
• Serve as primary point of contact for students and prospective students regarding assigned program offerings.
• Coordinate preparations for conducting courses which may include classroom or facilities scheduling and preparation, ordering and distributing course materials, etc.
• Prepare and update course schedules.
• Process vendor payments associated with assigned program offerings.
• Distribute and collect course evaluations; summarize and prepare reports.
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Academic Affairs, Business Management, Education or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Required Experience: Three to four years of job related experience

Scheduling, Banner, DegreeWorks experience is preferred