The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus program coordinator is a part-time (20 to 29 hours per week) position that will provide on-site and off-site support for the K-12 Program. The focus of the program coordinator position is to facilitate the planning, delivery and reporting of educational, cultural, leadership, and social development enrichment activities for elementary, middle and high school program participants. This position also entails providing participants with an educational environment conducive to obtaining a deeper awareness of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science content, careers, and the requirements to attend a post-secondary institution.

This position will coordinate K-12 programs, conferences, fairs, and activities (i.e., recruitment, schedule, communication, retention, implementation and evaluation, help plan educational and cultural activities, maintain complete and accurate records and statistics, develop meaningful reports and PowerPoints from program information, collaborate with the director, temporary staff, program stakeholders, on-campus constituents and volunteers, and visit schools and informal education settings as needed.

The program coordinator must have the ability to work independently, handle ambiguity, manage multiple projects, schedules, deadlines, collect and analyze data, establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments, and possess good interpersonal and written communication skills.