Program Administrator for Educational Equity

About The Position

MDC, a nonprofit in Durham, N.C., focused on expanding opportunity, reducing poverty, and promoting equity, particularly in the South, seeks a Program Administrator to provide critical admin and program support for the Educational Equity programs at MDC. The role will maintain, implement, and manage team systems and tools that support the other primary program team members, our communities, and our partners to be most effective. Specifically, the position will report to and provide direct administrative support to the MDC Senior Program Director for Educational Equity. The Program Administrator will also support other Educational Equity team members with notetaking, scheduling, travel, correspondence, and event planning.

Primary Responsibilities And Expectations

Administration

• Take and/or transcribe notes from meetings, primarily for the Senior Program Director and the program team as a whole
• Provide team members with support on technology tools
• Maintain an Educational Equity calendar and assist with scheduling for team as needed
• Maintain project file organization
• Other duties as determined by the Senior Program Director
  
  

Project Support

• Lead internal and external meeting logistics coordination (team meetings, team retreats, partner support events, etc., as well as follow-up)
• Support knowledge management, helping to document process and content learning from projects
• Share project updates, success stories, relevant evaluation data, and communications materials with the broader Educational Equity Team and relevant MDC Cross Programs staff
  
  

Event Coordination

• Lead logistics planning and execution for virtual, hybrid and in-person events, such as Zoom set-up and moderation, hotel registration, catering, supplies and room set-up
• Communicate with event participants about details and logistics
• Coordinate language translation and interpretation for events and meetings
  
  

External Relations

• Assist in planning/coordinating meetings and events (including follow-up)
• Support initial research on issues raised by the Educational Equity team and partners
• Monitor news outlets for relevant articles, models, promising ideas
  
  

Qualifications

This position may be remote within the Southeast U.S. with preference for those who live in the greater Triangle, NC area. There is occasional travel averaging once a month, typically within NC.

The Program Administrator should have:

• A bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience. Six years of relevant experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
• Experience leading event logistics
• Experience with note-taking and a willingness to learn MDC’s style preferences
• Experience and comfort working with diverse groups of various sizes
• Skill with customer service and responsiveness to constituent needs
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a variety of audiences
• The ability to work independently and take initiative on projects
• Basic research experience
• Must possess the skills to create succinct, accurate, timely documents
• Must exhibit the highest degree of personal integrity, professionalism, and dedication to excellence
• Immediate follow-through and attention to details
• Curiosity about and willingness to explore issues of inclusion, power, privilege, and equity
• Comfort working independently and as part of a team
• Basic presentation skills and comfort using Teams, Zoom, etc., for meetings
• The ability to think creatively and collaboratively
• High proficiency in Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office, including Word, Outlook, Canva, Excel and PowerPoint
• Fluency in Spanish a plus
  
  

Salary

The hiring range for this position is $50,000-$55,000 per year. Compensation may be adjusted for candidates residing in high cost-of-living locations with in the Southeast U.S.

MDC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and equity, it is our policy to provide an equal employment opportunity to all individuals without regard to age, color, race, religion, national origin, disability, military/veteran status, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, or status in any other group, protected by federal or local law or for any other reason. We encourage applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, and members of underrepresented groups. Reasonable accommodations are available on request. For more info about MDC, go to www.mdcinc.org and www.stateofthesouth.org.

Deadline for application is December 5th, 2025.

About The Team

The Educational Equity team at MDC promotes educational equity across the U.S. South, by engaging with changemakers and communities to leverage their strengths for transforming systems, policies, and practices that shape education from early childhood through post-secondary settings. When the South is a place where all people thrive, all children will have access to high-quality learning and care environments from birth to post-secondary that foster a love for learning and prepares them to be leaders in their communities.

About MDC

Based in Durham, NC, MDC catalyzes and accelerates economic mobility across the thirteen Southern states by activating changemakers, strengthening capacity, framing key issues, and cultivating networks—centering equity through it all. Created in 1967 by NC Governor Terry Sanford, MDC envisions a South where systemic inequities no longer exist and all people thrive.

We do this by:

• Activating changemakers (a community’s recognized and unrecognized leaders) as individuals, organizations, and collaboratives across the thirteen states of the American South;
• Strengthening capacity;
• Framing key issues; and,
• Cultivating networks
  
  

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