"Senior Event Program Coordinator"

Position Details

Position Information

• Posting date: 11/24/2025
• Closing date: Open Until Filled (Yes)
• Position Number: 1127281
• Position Title: Senior Event Program Coordinator
• Hiring Range Minimum: $75,700
• Hiring Range Maximum: $94,700
• FLSA Status: Exempt
• Employment Category: Regular Full Time
• Scheduled Months per Year: 12
• Scheduled Hours per Week: 40
• Location of Position: Hanover, NH
• Remote Work Eligibility?: Hybrid

Position Purpose

The Senior Event Program Coordinator has responsibility for promoting inclusive excellence and belonging (IEB) initiatives across Geisel educational programs, including the medical doctor (MD) and Master’s degree programs. Oversees the day-to-day operations of the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (DICE) and works to ensure efficient and timely accomplishment of office functions. The candidate will successfully work with a wide variety of constituents in the medical school to assess programmatic needs that support inclusive excellence, belonging and community building across the medical doctor (MD) and Master’s degree programs.

Responsibilities occasionally may require an adjusted work schedule and evening/weekend work hours in order to meet deadlines in high-impact office setting.

Required Qualifications - Education and Yrs Exp

Bachelors or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Qualifications - Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• 5 plus years of project management experience in a similar role, or relevant diversity or student affairs office environment in higher and/or medical education, including the training, development, coordination, and evaluation of complex work among a team of staff/and or students (may run concurrently).
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team.
• Exercise judgment and initiative.
• Interact positively with a diverse set of faculty, students, and personnel in a professional manner.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Ability to plan work, set priorities, and respond to pressures, deadlines, and changes in schedules and priorities.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to maintain and foster confidentiality.
• Proficiency in database management, spreadsheets, and other computer software.
• Willingness and ability to learn additional computer applications.
• Commitment to diversity and to serving the needs of a diverse community.
• Ability to work collaboratively and demonstrate creative problem-solving with learners, faculty and staff within Geisel, our academic and clinical partners, and the community at large.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Social Justice, Multicultural or Diversity Studies or a related field of study.
• 3+ years planning large scale events.
• Experience working with diverse communities and/or pipeline programs.
• Experience managing and training others in structural, cultural, and other issues which can impact academic performance by students from culturally and socio-economically diverse backgrounds.
• Formal training in finance, project management, and/or organizational quality improvement.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) skills.

Key Accountabilities

Program Development and Coordination (45%)

• Takes initiative in solving problems, understands unmet student needs, and recommends solutions.
• Represents Geisel’s Inclusive Excellence and Belonging efforts by presenting at conferences, recruitment fairs, and with minority-serving organizations.
• Advises, supports, and works with students... (abbreviated for brevity, full details in original)
• Oversee all heritage month celebrations and religious holidays recognitions.

General Administration (20%)

• Establishes deadlines, assists in determining priorities...

Communication (25%)

• Maintains cognizance of working within a diverse community...

Information/Records Management (10%)

• Handles a wide variety of confidential matters...

Department Contact

Lisa McBride, Ph.D
Phone: 603-646-5572

Quick Link

https://searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/83965