Virginia Tech
Program Support Coordinator
🇺🇸
Blacksburg, VA
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Full-Time
💰
$40K
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Other
🗓️
March 27th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Virginia Tech is hiring a Program Support Coordinator who will serve as the first point of contact in the ADS advising suite. The coordinator will provide administrative support by managing catalog and syllabus updates, enrollment management, report preparation, and assisting with program events to ensure timely assistance for faculty, staff, and students.
Highlights
- Primary responsibilities include coordinating academic catalog/syllabus updates, managing semester timetable and teaching load data, supporting enrollment, and processing grade changes and force-add requests.
- Provide support for program operations and departmental events in the ADS advising suite.
- Required skills: proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat, and demonstrated office and organizational skills.
- Preferred experience with Banner, Navigate, and Virginia Tech Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS), plus academic environment support.
- Must demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills to work with diverse clients.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, work independently, and handle multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining professionalism.
- Non-exempt position eligible for overtime with a 40-hour workweek.
- Starting salary around $40,000, commensurate with experience; classified in Pay Band 3.
- The role requires a criminal conviction check prior to employment.
- Position supports the College of Science and enhances advising and administrative functions related to student and faculty services.
Program Support Coordinator Full Description
Job Description
This position serves as the first point of contact in the advising suite and provides central administrative support for many aspects of the programs in ADS and its student-related functions, ensuring that faculty, staff, and students receive timely assistance. Responsibilities include coordinating catalog and syllabus updates, entering and updating timetable and teaching load information each semester, supporting enrollment management, preparing reports related to departmental teaching and student data, processing force-add requests and grade changes for programs in ADS, and assisting with program and departmental events.
Additional duties include supporting day-to-day program operations and shared administrative functions as needed. The successful candidate must be adaptable and flexible and willing to pitch in and help when and where needed.
Required Qualifications
Demonstrated experience in a professional office environment
Experience with computers and computer software such as Microsoft Office or Google Workspace and Adobe Acrobat
Evidence of excellent and professional interpersonal and communication skills while working with a diverse clientele
Demonstrated organizational skills and attention to detail
Ability to set priorities and work independently and on multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to stay focused and work courteously and professionally with frequent interruptions
Preferred Qualifications
We recognize that experience comes in many forms. If you meet the required qualifications and are interested in the role, we encourage you to apply—even if you don’t meet every preferred qualification.
Experience with Banner, Navigate and Virginia Tech Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS).
Experience providing support in an academic environment
Pay Band
3
Overtime Status
Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime
Appointment Type
Regular
Salary Information
Starting at $40,000-commensurate with experience
Hours per week
40
Review Date
04/17/2026
Additional Information
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
About Virginia Tech
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.
Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance. These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.
Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Jen Pike at jenpike@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.
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