Program Coordinators
MCN Overview:
The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) is a global student network advancing solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges. Through our programs and community, we convene, challenge, and celebrate student leaders working to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Program Coordinators play a central role in delivering and strengthening MCN’s signature program, the Millennium Fellowship—a semester-long leadership development program presented in partnership with United Nations Academic Impact. The Fellowship brings together undergraduate student leaders from around the world to strengthen their leadership, deepen their impact, and build communities of change. The Millennium Fellowship Class of 2026 runs from August through December.
This role is responsible for the operational excellence, administration, and program coordination that underpin the Fellowship experience. The Program Coordinator will also serve as a strategic thought partner in shaping future iterations of the program - contributing insights, recommendations, and improvements informed by lessons learned across Fellowship cohorts from 2018–2025.
The role offers the opportunity to work closely with and mentor emerging leaders across the globe while helping scale one of the world’s largest leadership communities for social impact. This is a remote, contract-based position reporting to the Chief of Staff, with a through-line to the Executive Director.
This is an opportunity to support a growing organization at an exciting stage of scale and contribute to a global movement equipping young leaders with the voice, skills, and mindset to create meaningful change.
Responsibilities:
Administrative Leadership for Fellowship Program (50%)
Serve as the primary point of contact for student leaders across the globe, providing timely guidance, responding to technical and programmatic inquiries, and offering mentorship and support throughout the Fellowship experience.
Lead program communications, including drafting and managing the weekly newsletter, coordinating social media content, and maintaining and updating website content as needed.
Oversee program administration systems and processes to ensure data integrity and operational excellence, including maintaining program metrics, surveys, impact stories, participant records, and issuance of final certificates.
Manage and troubleshoot technical challenges related to the Fellowship’s digital platforms and ensure a smooth participant experience.
Support broader organizational operations as needed, including database development and maintenance, partner communications, reporting, and other cross-functional administrative initiatives
Program Implementation and Thought Partnership (30%)
Support implementation of the Fellowship program by refining curricular content, developing engaging programming, and contributing creative ideas to strengthen the participant experience.
Co-develop and deliver training and onboarding experiences for Campus Directors to ensure effective program delivery across institutions.
Manage ongoing communications and engagement with Campus Directors, including facilitating peer learning and regional community-building opportunities.
Co-design and coordinate global program experiences, including MCN’s annual Virtual Town Hall, Graduation Ceremony, webinars, networking sessions, and other community events.
Coordination of special Programmatic verticals (10%)
MCN and its partners implement specialized program tracks within the Millennium Fellowship to support targeted student communities and thematic priorities. Examples for 2026 include virtual exchange programming across MENA and the US, a sustainability scholarship initiative, and a Future of Work program.
Program Coordinators play an active role in planning, coordinating, and delivering these strategic program verticals.
Future Program Thought Partnership (less than 5% of role):
Contribute ideas, insights, and recommendations to inform future iterations of the Millennium Fellowship curriculum and broader program design.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree required. Pursuit of or completion of a Masters's degree is a plus.
Extremely organized and self-directed.
Proactively communicative: initiates reminders, requests, and develops solutions independently.
Passionate about leadership, youth development, and global development.
Demonstrated interest in global and/or domestic social justice and development work.
At least one-year experience designing and/or implementing a program (any subject, can be combined from multiple experiences).
Available work outside of typical business hours. Our campuses are based in 40+ different countries and leadership coaching is based on students’ schedules, which depending on the campus/country might be in the evenings and weekends.
Team spirit, positive attitude.
Skills in community-building, relationship cultivation, and mentorship is a plus.
Experience using administrative and collaboration tools (e.g., Airtable, Excel, Slack, Acuity, Google Workspace) is strongly preferred.
Prior experience with MCN is a strong plus.
Benefits:
Be a key team member in a growing organization with global impact.
Connect with a global development movement to ensure that young leaders have the voice they deserve, the skills they need, and the mindset for challenging the paradigms that perpetuate inequality.
Opportunities to connect with global leaders at the UN, State Department, and beyond.
Training into our global programs and administrative behind-the-scenes.
Other
This is a 6-month contract that will run from July through December 2026.
This position is remote and open to candidates in the US and worldwide.
Fluency in English required. Proficiency in any of the United Nations languages a plus (French, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic)
Join us in supporting the next generation of leaders to create positive social impact. Apply by June 24th, 2026.
MCN is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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