# Coordinator roles, duty by duty

> Five coordinator jobs a growing agency hires for, built from public job postings: what each one does, which duties a system can take, and what stays human.

These pages cover the coordinator hires a growing agency usually makes first: operations, project, sales, client onboarding and account coordinators. Each one lists the duties that public job postings ask for, marks which a system can run and which stay with a person, and gives a federal pay band for the hire.

I read at least ten public postings for each role, grouped the duties they list, and counted how often each one comes up. I quote no company, and every posting is linked on its page with the date I read it. Each page also says when its postings were made, and some may have closed since. I build business systems for service businesses, so I say on each page where that bears on the split.

- [What does an operations coordinator do, and which duties can a system take?](https://signalnine.io/md/roles/operations-coordinator): The duties ten public operations coordinator postings list, which ones a system can run, which stay with a person, and what the hire costs a year.
- [What does a project coordinator do at an agency, and which duties can a system take?](https://signalnine.io/md/roles/project-coordinator): The duties in ten project coordinator postings, nine from agencies: which ones a system can run, which stay with a person, and what the hire costs a year.
- [What does a sales coordinator do, and which duties can a system take?](https://signalnine.io/md/roles/sales-coordinator): The duties eleven public sales coordinator postings list, which ones a system can run, which stay with a person, and what the hire costs a year.
- [What does a client onboarding coordinator do, and which duties can a system take?](https://signalnine.io/md/roles/client-onboarding-coordinator): The duties in eleven public client onboarding postings, which ones a system can run, which stay with a person, and what the hire costs a year.
- [What does an account coordinator do at an agency, and which duties can a system take?](https://signalnine.io/md/roles/account-coordinator): The duties in twelve account coordinator postings, eleven from agencies: which ones a system can run, which stay with a person, and what the hire costs a year.

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## Related

- [Should I hire an operations coordinator or install a system?](https://signalnine.io/md/compare/hire-a-coordinator-vs-install-a-system): What an operations coordinator costs a year, set against installing a system: where each one fails, and which to pick first when your agency is growing.
- [What does coordination cost your business each year?](https://signalnine.io/md/tools/coordination-cost): Turn your leads, proposals and active projects into the hours your people spend coordinating each month, and what that time costs you in a year.
- [Build it, hire for it, or install a system: a one-page decision](https://signalnine.io/md/guides/build-hire-or-system): Decide whether to build it yourself, hire a person or install a system by the kind of work it is, with a one-page memo to fill in for your own business.

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Mashrur Rahman, Founder, SignalNine. Published 2026-10-06, updated 2026-10-06.
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