Coordinator - Office of Appreciative Education

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The College of Education at Florida Atlantic University is seeking a Coordinator - Office of Appreciative Education - Boca Raton, FL.

The Coordinator serves as the essential connector and technical champion within the Office of Appreciative Education (OAE), bringing energy, precision, and care to every participant touchpoint. By orchestrating administrative systems, digital platforms, and vibrant communications, this role ensures every learner feels valued, supported, and recognized throughout their educational journey. Joining a dynamic team committed to continual innovation, the Coordinator provides critical administrative, fiscal, and operational infrastructure to deliver outstanding professional development experiences for higher education professionals worldwide.

• Appreciative Advising Institute: Manages registration rosters, handles small-group logistics, sets up Padlet resource boards, assists with facilitator and facilitator assistant training meetings, and issues completion certificates.
• Appreciative Education Conference: Coordinates marketing assets, manages concurrent session schedules, monitors technical platforms (Zoom/Oxford Abstracts), handles attendee registration, and assists with event logistics.
• Appreciative Advising & Administration Online Courses: Manages Canvas LMS enrollment and sets up course shells, provides daily participant technical support, handles student inquiries, tracks instructor/facilitator stipend payments, fields participant adjustments (term moves, institutional discounts), and processes final completion verifications.
• Certified Appreciative Adviser Program: Receives and tracks incoming application packets, facilitates the review process, and issues official digital badges/credentials via Accredible.
• Webinars & Program Expansion: Supports administrative coordination for webinar series and co-creates new offerings and related administrative processes alongside the OAE Director and Founder.

• Coordinates assessment efforts using tools such as Qualtrics and Google Forms to track performance metrics for offerings and facilitators.
• Develops, updates, and maintains impact dashboards, annual reports, and informational one-pagers.
• Tracks course offering engagement and manages pre/post-assessment plans in collaboration with the Director to support long-term programmatic enhancement.

• Executes daily Workday financial transactions, processes purchase orders (POs), handles invoices, reconciles P-card expenses, and coordinates travel reimbursements.
• Serves as the primary operational liaison with campus units, including COCE (CampusCE; facilitator hiring/payments), HR (hiring interns and GAs, background checks), and ELRM/College of Education (timekeeping and personnel tasks).
• Maintains the OAE website, updates online event calendars, codes custom email campaigns, manages social media calendars, and publishes OAE newsletters and announcements.
• Fields general inquiries via email and phone, manages vendor contracts, orders office supplies, updates directories/databases, organizes department files, and provides meeting preparation/scheduling support.

• Onboards, trains, and supervises Graduate Assistants (GAs) and student interns.
• Conducts weekly 1:1 meetings, tracks daily workflow, maintains project schedules, processes weekly intern reports, and approves timesheets and leave requests.