Program Coordinator job description
18 verified openings in Program Coordinator
Somebody has to keep a program running day to day: intake scheduled, volunteers signed up and supported, records current, reports ready when the board asks. That coordinating work has no federal category of its own. BLS folds coordinators and managers of social service programs into one occupation, social and community service managers, so the program manager page on this site quotes the same wage row. Its May 2025 figures: a median of $80,390 across 209,330 jobs, with eight in ten of them paid between $53,150 and $132,260.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
A program's machinery is the coordinator's material: procedures that turn board objectives into daily operations, budgets and personnel records kept current, training manuals maintained, and volunteers recruited, signed up, and scheduled alongside paid staff. Participants often reach this person first, so direct service belongs on the list, handling referrals, running needs evaluations, and resolving complaints. Partner agencies call the same number, because keeping services from being duplicated across a community takes someone who knows what every organization offers. Add interpreting federal, state, and county program regulations for coworkers, and speaking to community groups about what the program does and for whom.
Common Skills and Technologies
Skill ratings here read like a coordinator's calendar: coordination, time management, monitoring, active listening, and complex problem solving all rated level, under service orientation and social perceptiveness at the top. For software, employers ask for Microsoft Access, where participant and program data tends to live, Outlook for schedule traffic, Excel and Word for everything counted or written, PowerPoint for presentations, and Microsoft Project when a plan needs real dates.
Education, Training, and Career Path
A bachelor's degree led the survey answers on what hiring takes, at 50 percent, and 24 percent said master's. Below that the answers split four ways and stayed small: 8 percent a two-year degree, 8 percent a post-master's certificate, 7 percent high school, and 2 percent some college. The occupation's Job Zone 4 rating expects years of experience on top of the degree, for coordinators no less than for managers.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 11-9151.00 Social and Community Service Managers, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9151.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 11-9151, https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.