Coordinator as a job title?

Around here, “coordinator” is pretty low-level. It’s a nice way of saying “assistant.”

At the last place I worked, “coordinator” meant that the holder of that title had all the responsibilities of a manger, but none of the authority.

It’s the term that means “entry level” at my company. Manager and Director are the steps up from there.

I once had a much younger and very minor colleague who was appointed coordinator of some project I was involved with. He immediately started acting as if he was the head honcho, capo di tutti capi, whatever. I was not particularly impressed and did my best to ignore him, much to his dismay.