Program Coordinator, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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* Job Title:

** Program Coordinator, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
** Job Family:
** Professionals
* * Full-Time/Part-Time:
** Full time
** Compensation Grade:
** 5S
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* Pay Type:

** Salary
* * Department:
** Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
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* Job Summary:

** In the last three years, the WGSS Program at Furman has more than tripled in size. In this context, the WGSS program at Furman University seeks a program coordinator to help sustain and expand current program support in line with the WGSS Director’s vision. As WGSS transitions from a program to a department, the program coordinator will serve as a vigorous advocate and ambassador of the program, professionally interact with students and faculty on a daily basis during the academic year, and provide daily administrative support and communications for internal and external-facing events and operations, planning and logistics as well as fundraising and budget management.

The coordinator will assist the Director in sustaining effective collaborations and relationships with other Furman departments, institutes, committees, student organizations, alumni, and external university partners.
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* Job Description:

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* Primary Responsibilities:

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* • Serve in ambassadorial and student-facing role as first point of contact and referral for the WGSS Program, including prospective and current students, faculty, alumni, community members, and others
• Increase visibility of decentralized but rapidly growing WGSS program by consistently staffing an open, inclusive physical space to serve as a WGSS “home” on campus where members of the community can easily find a WGSS representative
• Help identify, research and maintain communication and positive relationships with Furman WGSS alumni, keeping up-to-date records that reflect these relationships
• Provide logistical support for LGBTQ+ Alumni Council, as needed
• Provide logistical support for WGSS speaker series, including working with multiple departments, scheduling and coordinating itineraries of visiting speakers. Such duties may include researching and booking flights, hotel, meals, class visits, ground transportation, reserving rooms, assisting with AV needs, catering, designing and disseminating advertising
• In collaboration with professors, organize and host study breaks and drop in hours in WGSS office for students
• Work with third-parties to organize WGSS service/volunteer days each academic year
• Maintain and continually expand records of WGSS-related internships, jobs and master’s programs for student consultation
• Conduct exit interviews for graduating seniors, documenting and comparing trends over time
• Purchase, maintain inventory, and disseminate attractive WGSS branding across multiple platforms as needed, with the potential to create new logos, t-shirts, thank you notes, etc. in the future
• Support program budget management by keeping accurate and up-to-date records of program expenditures, making and reconciling purchases as needed, creating invoices, travel-related reporting and…