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Liberty University

Coordinator of Doctoral Programs for School of Education

🇺🇸 Lynchburg, VA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Other

🗓️ December 22nd, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Liberty University, Inc. is hiring a Coordinator of Doctoral Programs for the School of Education. The role involves managing academic operations related to faculty and staff, coordinating student pairing with dissertation chairs and faculty mentors, and assisting students through the doctoral process by tracking pertinent information and paperwork.

Highlights
  • Coordinate dissertation chair pairing and assist with faculty mentor assignments.
  • Maintain the SOE Doctoral Community Course and monitor NP and final grades.
  • Facilitate the director review process and track candidate progress.
  • Assist with updating doctoral handbooks and planning the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required.
  • Minimum qualification is a Bachelor's degree with strong written communication and organizational skills.
  • Superior interpersonal, customer service, presentation, and communication skills are essential.
  • Creative and innovative problem-solving skills are required.
  • Physical requirements include prolonged sitting, effective oral communication, occasional standing and walking, and lifting up to 10 pounds.
  • Work is performed in a climate-controlled office setting with moderate noise levels.

Coordinator of Doctoral Programs for School of Education Full Description

The Coordinator of Doctoral Programs will assist with the operations of the School of Education doctoral team. This position will assist in ensuring that academic operations regarding faculty and staff are efficiently and effectively managed. This position will coordinate the pairing of students with dissertation chairs and faculty mentors and assist in helping them navigate the doctoral process by processing and tracking pertinent information and paperwork

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Coordinates dissertation chair pairing
• Assists with the assignment of faculty mentors
• Maintains the SOE Doctoral Community Course
• Assists with monitoring NP grades
• Facilitates the director review process
• Tracks candidate progress
• Assists with monitoring and posting of final grades
• Assists with updating doctoral handbooks
• Assists with the planning of Doctoral Hooding Ceremony
• Other duties as assigned
 
QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS
Education and Experience
• Minimum
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Effective time management and organization skills
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Preferred
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Effective time management and organization skills
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office

ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES ESSENTIAL TO THE FUNCTION OF THE JOB
Communication and Comprehension
  • Superior interpersonal, customer service, presentation, and communication skills required
Problem-Solving
  • Creative, innovative, and problem-solving skills required
Physical and Sensory Abilities
  • Frequently required to sit for extended periods to perform deskwork or type on a keyboard
  • Regularly required to hear and speak in order to communicate orally in an effective manner
  • Occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb stairs to move about the building
  • Handle materials, reach overhead, kneel or stoop in order to conduct business
  • Regularly lift 10 or fewer pounds

WORKING CONDITIONS
Work Environment
• The working environment in which one will typically perform the essential
functions of this position is a climate-controlled office setting. It is well lighted, and
the noise level is moderate.

Target Hire Date2026-02-02
Time TypeFull time
LocationLynchburg - In Office

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes. The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University's hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the "religion" component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.

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