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California State University - Northridge

Project Coordinator

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Northridge, California 🕑 Temporary Part-Time 💰 $3,275 - $3,616 per Month 💻 Project Management 🗓️ September 1st, 2026
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California State University - Northridge is hiring a Project Coordinator. The role keeps accessibility initiatives, faculty projects, and student employee workflows moving within CSUN's digital content accessibility program. It calls for five years of progressively responsible administrative experience and offers a hybrid part-time schedule.

Highlights
  • Directs and guides the work of student employees
  • Fields inquiries from faculty and campus colleagues and coordinates meetings
  • Maintains documentation and resource materials for faculty content creators
  • Schedules grant-related meetings and processes related travel arrangements
  • Organizes project events, RSVPs, reservations, and purchase processing
  • Supports recruitment and onboarding for student positions
  • Tracks HR and timekeeping documentation for the team
  • Monitors the recruitment platform and organizes incoming applications

Project Coordinator Full Description

Job Title
Project Coordinator

Work Type
Staff, Temporary, Part Time (30 hours/week, Monday through Friday), Telecommute eligible / Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote)

About CSUN
CSUN strives to be a destination workplace, where everyone understands that they belong to a community that is vital in advancing student success and providing exemplary service to all stakeholders. The university fosters an environment of success for both students and employees, with a relentless passion for celebrating diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Major Duties
Under general supervision, the Project Coordinator coordinates student employee workflows, faculty and program activities, accessibility initiatives, project events, and administrative processes. The position supports communications, recruitment and onboarding, project reporting, fiscal activities, documentation, and tracking to advance university accessibility goals.
  • Provides lead work direction and guidance to student employees
  • Serves as a primary point of contact for faculty and campus colleagues, responding to email, phone, and ticket inquiries and scheduling and coordinating meetings as needed
  • Coordinates administrative and operational activities supporting established digital content accessibility processes, including preparing, organizing, and maintaining documentation and resource materials for faculty content creators
  • Schedules and participates in grant-related meetings; processes travel; and coordinates project events and related logistics, including RSVPs, reservations, arrangements, and purchase processing
  • Provides administrative support for student recruitment and onboarding, including monitoring the recruitment platform, organizing applications, scheduling interviews, coordinating onboarding activities, and maintaining required HR and timekeeping documentation
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications
  • Equivalent to five (5) years of full-time, progressively responsible administrative or technical office management experience in an administrative capacity exercising independent judgment and leading the work of others
  • Bachelor's Degree is preferred
  • Equivalent to full-time college or university education/vocational school training in business or job-related field may be substituted for up to two (2) years of the required experience
  • Experience in a client-facing role and/or working with faculty, is a plus

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
  • Strong project coordination and workflow tracking skills
  • Effective written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to coordinate multiple priorities, deadlines, events, and administrative processes
  • Ability to provide effective work direction and guidance to student employees
  • Strong organizational, documentation, reporting, and recordkeeping skills
  • Ability to support established accessibility processes and appropriately refer complex technical accessibility issues
  • Demonstrated ability to give attention to details in a rapidly-changing environment
  • Knowledge of ASL is preferred

Pay, Benefits, & Work Schedule
Classification: 1035 / Admin Support Coord / Grade 2. The anticipated part-time equivalent of the hiring range is $3,275-$3,616 per month, dependent on qualifications and experience; the part-time equivalent of the full salary range for this classification is $3,275-$4,772 per month. Hours: Part Time, 30 hours per week, Monday through Friday. This is a temporary position with an end date to be determined. The position is currently hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote), subject to change based on operational needs. The university offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement & savings, and tuition waiver.

General Information
Applications received through September 11, 2026 will be considered in the initial review, and review of applications will continue until the position is filled. This position is sensitive as designated by the CSU, and a satisfactory background check (including a criminal records check) is required. The CSU is a state entity whose business operations reside within the State of California and prohibits hiring employees to perform CSU-related work outside of California. CSUN is not currently sponsoring staff or management positions for H-1B employment visas; applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Equal Employment Opportunity
CSUN is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination based on Age, Disability, Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Genetic Information, Marital Status, Medical Condition, Nationality, Pregnancy or related conditions, Race or Ethnicity, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Veteran or Military Status.