Program Coordinator

• Coordinate BME graduate programs, including student course registrations, funding confirmations, PeopleSoft entries, I-9 processing, doctoral actions, forms, announcements, student progress tracking, credit card management, expense reports, and student organization requests
• Support BME graduate student admissions and recruitment, including campus visit travel, recruitment meetings, faculty matching, SLATE offer letters, recruitment swag, vendor reservations, annual events, and travel reimbursements
• Support BME student engagement by scheduling mentoring meetings, analyzing faculty survey responses, tracking master's student tuition scholarships, coordinating with faculty, and supporting master's program growth
• Assist the VISE Program Manager with marketing, social media, photography, graphics, captions, short videos, events, workshops, vendors, presentations, listservs, posters, signs, maps, banners, and other marketing materials
• Support BME department social media on LinkedIn and X (Twitter)
• Serve as a resource for students and faculty and perform other duties as assigned
• Report primarily to the BME Graduate Program Manager with a dotted line to the VISE Program Manager

Graduate program coordinator supporting Vanderbilt engineering students and research programs

Graduate Program Coordinator

Graduate program coordinator supporting Vanderbilt University’s biomedical engineering education and surgery-engineering research programs. Coordinating admissions, student services, events, finances, and social media.

• Support the Southern Appalachians Program Manager in developing NFF’s role in the Southern Appalachians subregion in alignment with the U.S. Forest Service and local partners, with potential elements including partnerships and communications; planning and consultation; project design and implementation; monitoring; and development of both immediate and long-term funding mechanisms.
• Coordinate budgets and reporting associated with grants from federal, state, and local government sources, as well as philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and individuals.
• Prepare associated grant and funding reports.
• Work with the Southern Appalachian Program Manager and the U.S. Forest Service to help manage and track cooperative agreements and their associated project budgets and timelines.
• Work with NFF staff to communicate project needs and the community benefits and accomplishments internally, to invested stakeholders, to the general public, and other relevant audiences.
• Build and maintain close and mutually beneficial relationships among federal and state agency partners, local government, Tribal nations, and indigenous communities, nonprofit organizations, and the NFF to implement effective community-based conservation partnerships.
• Advance a variety of projects as an implementation partner, including but not limited to fuels and vegetation management, reforestation, outdoor recreation, watershed resiliency, and other conservation projects across the Southern Appalachians.
• Support the advertising, negotiation, awarding, and invoicing of multiple contracts for services related to the on-the-ground implementation of conservation projects.
• Work directly with contractors, consultants, nonprofit organizations, and agency partners to coordinate the on-the-ground project implementation effectively and efficiently.
• Conduct ongoing communication with partners on the status of project planning, implementation, and project successes.
• Support priority subregional projects, such as red spruce restoration efforts.
• Facilitate collaboration and partnerships with the U.S. Forest Service, other federal and state agency partners, local governments, Tribal nations and indigenous communities, and nonprofit organizations.
• Support the NFF’s Advancement team to raise funds and develop long-term funding sources for the NFF’s work across the Southern Appalachians.
• Maintain a breadth of knowledge about current trends, emerging issues, policy interventions, and innovations in the field of conservation programming to enhance the NFF strategic efficacy.
• Serve as a point of contact for the NFF across the Southern Appalachians and the Southern Region.
• Assist as necessary with the NFF program of work in the Southern Region, which may include the management of diverse, short-term projects or events.

Southern Appalachians Program Coordinator developing conservation projects across National Forests

Program Coordinator, Southern Appalachians

Southern Appalachians Program Coordinator developing and implementing conservation projects for National Forest Foundation. Collaborating with diverse partners and managing grants in Southern Appalachians.

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Graduate Program Coordinator

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