Program Coordinator (5152U), New Student Services #87847

At the University of California, Berkeley , we are dedicated to fostering a community where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. Our culture of openness, freedom, and belonging makes it a special place for students, faculty, and staff, who are among the most talented and accomplished anywhere, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Mac Arthur Fellows. Since our founding in 1868, we have been an engine for innovation - driving intellectual, economic, and social progress that benefits California, the U.S., and beyond.

Together, we change the world.

At Berkeley, the best careers are built on a foundation of continuous learning and growth . We actively support professional development by providing all full‑time staff employees with at least 80 hours of paid time per year and provide space for supportive colleague communities via numerous employee resource groups.

New Student Services (NSS) empowers undergraduate students to succeed and facilitates their transition to UC Berkeley. This process is known as the Golden Bear Experience, which consists of two parts:
Before Students Arrive (advising and prep, online) and After Students Arrive (Golden Bear Orientation, and Getting Your Bearings, on campus).

The overarching goals of the Golden Bear Experience are to: welcome new students into UC Berkeley’s scholarly community and lay the foundation for fostering their intellectual identity; create opportunities for participants to gain an understanding of academic requirements; create opportunities for participants to connect with university and college resources, services, and support structures; create opportunities for participants to engage with campus traditions and the range of UC Berkeley’s unique cultural communities;

create opportunities for participants to engage with their peers and the broader campus community; and set the path for a lifelong relationship with the campus.

The Program Coordinator has primary responsibility for coordinating transitional programs for 9,000+ new students and their family members each year. This position creates programs for students that assist them in building relationships to foster leadership, personal growth, and meaningful engagement with faculty and advisers, to make connections with campus resources, and to become involved as active leaders in campus life so they will become critical thinkers and engaged leaders.

The position will oversee a component of new student transition outside of Golden Bear Orientation. Student transition begins as soon as they accept their office of admission and extends into the first semesters. Golden Bear Orientation plays an integral role in that transition, but must be supported before and after with intention that requires building relationships with many campus partners.

The position assists in Golden Bear Orientation programming, student staff training, and student coordinator supervision. The Program Coordinator serves as a key individual in the development of Orientation Mentors and Orientation Leaders. Researches, develops, and executes training and supervisory structure for 750 Orientation Leaders and 60 Orientation Mentors.

The First Review Date for this job is September 1, 2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

• Assist in the designs and implementation of programming components within Golden Bear Orientation in collaboration with other NSS professional and student staff, and campus partners.
• Programming implementation will require building relationships with campus stakeholders and executing coordinated outreach.
• Programming focuses could include student wellness, violence and harassment prevention, late night programming, campus department involvement, transfer student programs and parent orientation.
• Makes recommendations to management for changes and/or development of new activities/services.

• Supervise one (1) to two (2) Student staff.
• Directs, designs, instructs, and evaluates partial year recruitment, onboarding and training program.
• Programming…