Program Coordinator - Students

Grand Canyon University • Phoenix, AZ

20h • Onsite

About The Position

Grand Canyon University! One of Arizona’s leading institutions of higher learning. Located in the Valley of Sun in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, GCU is a regionally accredited, private, nondenominational Christian University. The Program Coordinator-Students coordinates and manages all student programming for the GCU Canyon Center for Character Education (CCCE), serving as a leader for student-facing Christian character initiatives on-ground and online. This role advances student growth through events, trainings, mentorship, and community-facing activities rooted in GCU’s Christ-centered mission and the CCCE’s Christian character framework. Through student engagement and support, the Student Program Coordinator helps GCU pursue its vision of cultivating Christ-like character rooted in faith, oriented by hope, and inspired to love, forming transformative leaders who pursue virtue through practiced wisdom for the common good.

Requirements

• Master’s degree required (Doctorate’s preferred) in student development, education, ministry, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in student programming, Christian education, or campus ministry.
• Demonstrated commitment to the Christian faith and a commitment to GCU’s Christ-centered mission.
• Strong leadership, event planning, mentoring, and communication skills.
• Ability to develop partnerships and lead collaborative, student-centered initiatives.
• Must be able to successfully pass background checks.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate all student and alumni programming with a focus on nurturing Christian character and virtues.
• Design and launch mentoring programs, college-specific speaker series, and leadership development initiatives focused on Christian character.
• Organize and support events that encourage students to grow in Christlike character, service, and leadership.
• Develop and facilitate training sessions that promote Christian character and virtues informing ethical decision-making among students.
• Lead community-facing activities that foster integrity, responsibility, and service in alignment with GCU’s mission and the Integration of Faith, Learning, and Work (IFLW).
• Lead all student-facing Christian character programs, building a culture of faith-driven, transformative leadership among students and alumni.
• Develop and deliver engaging campus events highlighting faith, hope, and love by facilitating dialogue series, speaker forums, service opportunities, and enhancing groups like Lopes Lead with Character, both on-ground and online.
• Support an annual Christian Character in the Professions Conference with participants who exemplify virtuous leadership and faithful Christian character; organize keynote events, Q&A sessions, post-event reflections, faculty/student panels, produce podcast interviews, and integrate conference content for co-curricular activities.
• Launch and maintain a Christian character mentorship program among students, ensuring effective mentor matching and progress tracking.
• Manage Christian character mentor training, personalized character action plans, student growth metrics, and longitudinal impact tracking.
• Develop GCU student leadership training emphasizing Christian character, conflict management, and civil discourse, in partnership with students and specified GCU staff to deliver workshops and peer-led programming.
• Integrate Christian character into student leadership cohorts and scholarships.
• Encourage student engagement in service, mentoring, and transformative leadership in alignment with GCU’s Christ-centered vision for character formation.
• Create, update, and disseminate targeted student resources for training and character formation efforts across campus.
• Support effective integration of Christian character expectations and virtue literacy across Residence Life, Athletics, ASGCU, and other student-centric divisions.
• Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with Associated Students of GCU (ASGCU), Spiritual Life, Residence Life, and student-worker hiring managers to support the embedding of Christian character and virtue literacy in student hiring, onboarding, and development processes.
• Coordinate campus-wide recognition pathways that acknowledge Christian character among students, including a formal Christian character recognition framework with Student Affairs, the Honors College, and Career Services to aid resume-building and graduate/professional school applications.
• Collect, analyze, and report student outcomes and program feedback to improve resources and initiatives within the CCCE.
• Manage grant expenditures for student-focused initiatives, projects, and resources.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Exceptional workplace benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a 401K savings plan
• Generous time off plan and 11 paid holidays
• Paid time off to volunteer in the community or at GCU sponsored events
• Free covered parking
• We also offer full-time employees, their spouses, and dependent children an Education Tuition Discount Program
• Free on-site gyms at all our office locations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees