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Community Program Coordinator

Strategic Engagement & Planning | Office/Administrative Support, Staff

Community Program Coordinator

  • 499108
  • Office/Administrative Support
  • Staff

Department: Public Policy and Management Center

Campus Location: Wichita, KS - WSU Main Campus

Hire Type: Full Time

Pay: Begins at $42,608 annually, commensurate with experience

Work Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8:00am - 5:00pm; work is performed on-site and in person.

Export Compliance Requirement: No export control requirement.

Job Story

Are you an organized multitasker who thrives on bringing people, projects, and ideas together? Do you enjoy researching solutions, analyzing information, engaging with community partners, and helping meaningful initiatives move from concept to completion? If so, we want to hear from you.

As our newest Community Program Coordinator, you'll play an important role in supporting services and programs delivered to community, governmental, and partner organizations. Working alongside project team members and clients, you'll help coordinate activities, conduct research and analysis, provide technical assistance, and support strategic initiatives that strengthen communities and help organizations achieve their goals.

In this role, you'll be the connector who keeps projects moving forward by gathering and analyzing information, developing surveys, supporting financial and operational reviews, coordinating community engagement efforts, and helping prepare work plans, budgets, reports, and meeting materials. You'll work closely with stakeholders to organize project details, communicate progress, and ensure deliverables are completed accurately and on schedule.

The Community Program Coordinator plays a vital role in translating information into action. Whether you're conducting program, regulatory, financial, or social media research, supporting strategic planning efforts, or preparing reports and presentations, your work will help clients make informed decisions and create meaningful outcomes for the communities they serve.
You'll have opportunities to build relationships with community leaders, organizational partners, and project teams while contributing to projects that make a real impact. From coordinating special projects and analyzing data to supporting facilitation sessions and representing the organization at meetings, your contributions will help ensure successful project delivery and exceptional client service.
If you're excited about combining organization, analysis, communication, and community engagement to help great ideas become reality, we'd love to meet you. Apply today and help us make great things happen together.

Job Summary

Assists in service delivery to community, governmental and/or associated organizations which may include, but is not limited to, training, technical assistance, financial analysis, survey development, strategic planning, and regulatory review.

Essential Functions

Performs program research, financial analysis, survey development and analysis, regulatory analysis, social media analysis, and other data collection and analysis. Develops and provides training, technical assistance and community engagement to organizations. Prepares, processes and edits financial or operational information, data and documents, including budgets, materials for meetings, special projects and reports. Assists with preparation of work plans, budgets, and reports. May represent organization and present at regional meetings and/or conferences.

 

Required Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in public administration, finance, environmental or related field
  • One (1) year of experience in research, data collection, analysis and reporting or related field

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Excellent professional communication skills
Clear, professional written communication (reports, summaries, etc.)
Strong presentation and community outreach skills
Project management skills (work planning, tracking deliverables, meeting deadlines)
Coordinate multi-stakeholder initiatives, community meetings, workshops, etc. Manage relationships with people (clients, funders, partners, etc.)
Navigate complex political and organizational dynamic
Adjust quickly to changing project priorities

 

 

 

Physical Requirements:

Ability to remain in a stationary position. Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment including but not limited to phone, printers, copiers, and calculators. Ability to communicate with others and accurately exchange information.

 

 

 

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