Program Coordinator, CFR

Position Function:

Coordinates projects, processes, and activities and provides services for departments and current students in the College of Forest Resources. Serves as a central administrative staff member responsible for supporting academic course and classroom scheduling, communication, and student progress tracking functions within the College of Forest Resources. This role is essential to ensuring coordination and continuity in processes that directly impact student success, timely matriculation, and faculty workload management. As the college transitions its academic advising roles to a centralized university unit, the duties previously housed within the CFR Student Services Coordinator roles that are unrelated to direct advising must be reassigned to maintain operational integrity.

Salary Grade:  13

Please see Staff Compensation Structure or Skilled Crafts and Service Maintenance Compensation Schedule for salary ranges.  For salary grade UC, these positions are "Unclassified" and salary ranges are determined by the hiring department.

Department Profile:

The Coordinator will serve the College of Forest Resources (CFR) at Mississippi State University. The mission of CFR is to foster the management, conservation, and sustainable use of forest, wildlife, and aquatic resources to benefit the people of Mississippi, the nation, and the world. CFR offers 4 majors and 16 concentrations and hundreds of careers. CFR provides students with ample opportunities to join discipline-oriented clubs and organizations and engage in undergraduate research.

Anticipated Appointment Date:

July 1, 2026. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Assists and advises CFR students with academic related issues such as (but not limited to) University or college policies and procedures, degree requirements, supplemental instruction, graduation application, and graduation audits.
2. Reviews and maintains CFR student records such as advising documentation.
3. Processes on behalf of the Dean’s office add/drop, withdrawal requests, academic forgiveness, substitutions, overload, overrides, and petitions for retroactive withdrawal and communicates these requests/approvals to Registrar’s office as appropriate.
4. Supports and consolidates departmental degree audits that inform upper-level academic advising to ensure progress towards degree completion and timely matriculation.
5. Validates completion requirements for all CFR applicants for graduation and communicates clearance for graduation to departments and Registrar’s office.
6. May coordinate activities related to field experiences, internships, exit surveys, and job placement of graduates.
7. Monitor course enrollment patterns, waitlists, and demand trends across all CFR concentrations.
8. Collaborate with the Departments to inform semester course offerings, seat capacities, and classroom assignments. Assimilate and coordinate departmental master class schedules into a collective CFR master class schedule that minimizes time and space conflicts.
9. Manage CFR inputs and updates in the CourseLeaf CLSS system for each term.
10. Review and process override requests each semester, resolving registration issues and coordinating with faculty and university offices as needed.
11. Approve change of major and change of concentration request coming from departments.
12. Communicate and collaborate with Center for Advising College lead to identify and resolve issues with degree works “backbone” for all CFR degree programs and concentrations.
13. Assist with CFR student events.
14. Other responsibilities deemed appropriate.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in natural resources or a related field.
• Experience advising in a collegiate setting
• Experience with Banner, Degree Works, CLSS, and Eforms

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

1. Ability to communicate and relate to students and university personnel.
2. Knowledge of word processing and spread sheet programs.
3. Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills required.
4. Knowledge of academic advising processes
5. Ability to utilize Banner, Degree Works, CLSS, Eforms, and other student services software pl