Graduation and Conferral Coordinator

🇺🇸In-Person$38K–$52K/yri2h ago

Higher Ed Operations Student Success Enrollment Management Academic Advising Higher Education Process Improvement

Role Snapshot

The Graduation and Conferral Coordinator ensures timely and accurate graduation processing at Old Dominion University by managing graduation petitions, verifying degree requirements, and maintaining the degree audit system. This role is critical to supporting student graduation timelines and academic record accuracy.

Key Responsibilities: Organize graduation petition paperwork, oversee collection processes to ensure accurate graduation lists, compile and verify final course requirements against degree requirements and approvals, and maintain the computerized degree audit system by programming curriculum changes and troubleshooting user issues. The position also includes providing training to end users and entering department-approved academic overrides.

Skills & Tools: Strong organizational and attention-to-detail skills with ability to manage complex graduation and degree verification processes. Technical proficiency with degree audit systems, programming capability for curriculum updates, and excellent communication skills for training and user support.

Qualifications: Typically requires a bachelor's degree and 1-3 years of experience in higher education administration, records management, or a related field. Familiarity with student information systems and degree audit software is preferred.

Location: In-Person

Compensation: $38K–$52K/yr (estimated)

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Job Description

Key duties include responsibility for timely and accurate graduation processing. This includes organization of the graduation petition paperwork and proper oversight of collection processes to ensure accurate graduation lists. The Graduation and Conferral Coordinator will also compile and verify final course requirements based on degree requirements and exception approvals. The position will also be responsible for maintaining the computerized degree audit system by programming curriculum changes, entering academic department approved overrides, ensuring accuracy and readability, troubleshooting issues reported by end users, and providing training.