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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Department of Kinesiology in the College of Health of Human Development (CHHD) at Penn State seeks a detail-oriented and focused individual for an Academic Program Coordinator position with the Kinesiology Undergraduate Student Services & Academic Advising Center. This position will work closely with the Undergraduate Professor-in-Charge and Administrative Support Coordinator, as well as provide administrative support to the Kinesiology Internship Coordinator and Advising.

As a member of the Kinesiology administrative team, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
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Serve as the first point of contact for matters associated with the department’s undergraduate student program and academic advising center

• Answer emails from students and direct students to Central Advising (interested students) or Kinesiology Academic Advisers

• Assist students with registration, drop/adds, course cancellations, and enrollment (e.g., Honor Student enrollment KINES 494H and KINES 296/496 Independent Study Forms enrollment)

• Assists Undergraduate Professor-In-Charge with LionPATH overrides for prerequisites

• Course Substitutions and Transfer Reviews in CSRS portal. Work with the college’s Records Coordinator with any questions related to audit update

• Acts as liaison with other departments, University Registrar and Bursar Offices, and other academic units

• Maintain confidential student records and files

• Collect the Syllabus for each core class for each semester

• Coordinate undergraduate student listservs and communications

Serve as Kinesiology Internship Program administrative support

• Administrative Support for Kinesiology Practicum Courses (e.g., KINES 295B/395B/495B)

• Meeting coordination and assistance (e.g., informational flyers, communication to students and site supervisors, meeting scheduling, Zoom recording posting)

• Manage online application postings

• Add KINES 495B students to the course, following approval of the online application by the Kinesiology Internship Coordinator

• Create Excel workbooks of all enrolled students, internship site, location, site supervisor name, and site supervisor contact information

• Qualtrics survey design, creation, and dissemination coordination for KINES 395B

• Manage reminders for evaluations for KINES 495B and 395B, as well as collection and organization of