Site Coordinator

About the role

The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) seeks a Site Coordinator to support daily college operations at Eastern NY and Woodbourne Correctional Facilities. The Site Coordinator is a full-time, exempt position of BPI. The successful candidate will excel at working in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation and religion.

Responsibilities

• Maintain prompt, clear, and effective communication with site director and colleagues
• Represent the college in a professional manner in interactions with faculty, students, and prison staff
• Transport and deliver materials between the BPI office on the Bard Annandale campus and correctional facilities where BPI operates
• Support site directors with logistical and organizational work
• Help students navigate college processes, including financial aid paperwork, course registration, and book distribution
• Collaborate on special events and other projects as needed
• Attend regular every-other-week college-in-prison operations meetings at the BPI office on the campus of Bard Annandale, as well as monthly online staff meetings

Requirements

• A high level of organization
• Close communication with colleagues
• Timely follow-through
• Reliability
• Ability to complete volunteer clearance process and to maintain volunteer clearance status with the Department of Corrections
• Ability to complete process to become a Bard driver and to maintain that status
• Ability to drive BPI van once qualified as a Bard driver

Qualifications

• Personal transportation to Bard Annandale and to prisons within a 75 mile radius of the Annandale campus (when using personal vehicle to travel to correctional facilities, mileage will be reimbursed)
• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time and work in standard office environment
• Must be able to lift and move 20-50 lb boxes of books and course materials on a regular basis

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Professional demeanor
• Physical stamina for lifting and moving materials

Benefits

We are pleased to offer our full-time employees an excellent benefit package which includes multiple health insurance options; TIAA retirement plans; generous vacation, sick, and personal time; and more. To learn more about employee benefits and eligibility at Bard College, please visit here.

Pay

$62,500 annually

Schedule

This position begins as early as July 1, 2026.