[Hiring] Coordinator @Portland Community College

Role Description

The Perkins Coordinator is responsible for collaborating with College leadership, faculty, and staff to assist in creating and supporting initiatives that lead to career readiness, attainment of degrees, certificates, and other industry-recognized credentials, for local populations as identified in Perkins guidelines, to succeed in high wage and high skill employment. The Coordinator also provides programmatic assistance, budgetary support, and technical assistance, working toward accomplishing the Perkins grant funding objectives in compliance with legal requirements.

***Please apply immediately - no later than October 12, 2026***

This position is part-time and the primary work location will be remote with a home base of Rock Creek.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, English, Journalism, Education or related field. Experience performing the duties of this job substitutes for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis.
• Three years of experience writing grant proposals and reports, coordinating activities and teams to support a grant, and interpreting requests for proposals, reporting cycles, and funding guidelines.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success managing grant projects and meeting grant outcomes and deadlines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the purpose, goals, and challenges faced by students in higher education and/or career/technical programs.
• Demonstrated experience working with faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds.
• Outcome-oriented approach to navigating complicated systems within large, complex K12, College, state agencies, or organizations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of privilege and structural inequities and how they impact students.
• Demonstrate an ability to work both independently and as a team member.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit package designed to provide employees and their families, including domestic partners, with access to a broad range of benefit options. Includes Health, Dental, and Vision options, Group Life, Long-term Disability, Long-term Care, and Auto and Home Insurance programs.
• Oregon PERS contribution - PCC currently fully funds the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS/OPSRP) pension and contributes an additional 6% into the employee's Individual Account Program under PERS/OPSRP.
• Tax deferred annuity program and a deferred compensation program where employees may save additional pre-tax dollars for retirement.
• PCC provides a tuition waiver for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and dependent children under 24 years of age, as well as partial tuition reimbursement for full-time employees at other accredited institutions.
• Free access to the sport centers/campus gymnasiums, performing arts, and cultural events.
• Generous Paid Leave - as determined by our collective bargaining agreement (Pro-rated by FTE for Part-Time Employees).
• Paid Leave: Starts at 13.33 hours of vacation leave per month (additional vacation hours with years of service), 1 day of sick leave per month, 12 holidays, PCC Winter Break (when College is closed), 1 additional personal leave day per year.

Company Description

Portland Community College is the largest post-secondary institution in Oregon and 19th largest in the nation, serving approximately 80,000 full- and part-time students. With four comprehensive campuses, five workforce training and education centers, and 200 community locations in the Portland metropolitan area, our unique role is to make high-quality education accessible to everyone, creating opportunities for our students and contributing to the economic development of our community.