Academic Success Coach for Project ASPIRE
Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Edgewood, KY
Full-time
Education
Posted on November 15, 2022
Title: Academic Success Coach for Project ASPIRE
Salary Range: 43,500/year
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Gateway Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Gateway Edgewood Campus
Department: Student Affairs
Benefits
Gateway Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
Gateway Community & Technical College invites applications for the Academic Success Coach for Project ASPIRE. This full-time position will provide individualized and group coaching for personal, career and academic matter to assist students in identifying and overcoming barriers to college success.
Job Duties:
Gateway Community & Technical College is a member of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and is a public two-year degree-granting institution serving the Northern Kentucky Region - part of the Greater Cincinnati Region and is Northern Kentucky's only public, accredited, comprehensive two-year institution. Gateway offers high-quality, targeted education to meet the personal and professional needs of students and contribute to the economic development of the region.
Gateway engages, connects, and inspires all students through education to successfully champion our region's competitive workforce and improve their quality of life.
Gateway offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity.
KY law requires state and national pre-employment background checks as a condition of employment.
Salary Range: 43,500/year
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Gateway Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Gateway Edgewood Campus
Department: Student Affairs
Benefits
Gateway Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Gateway Community & Technical College invites applications for the Academic Success Coach for Project ASPIRE. This full-time position will provide individualized and group coaching for personal, career and academic matter to assist students in identifying and overcoming barriers to college success.
Job Duties:
- Provide support and coaching for personal, career and academic matters through ongoing, intrusive advising including working with students to develop Individual Success Plans (ISPs) and monitoring students' progress by collecting data on achievement and attendance through Starfish and other student retention tools.
- Utilizes a variety of individualized academic and non-cognitive assessments, such as You Science, to develop and analyze a student��s ISP to ensure the right supports are in place.
- Communicates with students at least once a month through a variety of student-driven means including, face-to-face contacts, email, texting, social media, phone, etc.
- Recruitment activities to assist in identifying and selecting TRIO Project ASPIRE-eligible students to enroll in the program. Tabling events. Coordinate program utilization of Tutor.com and campus-provided tutoring for program participants.
- Develop and organize activities for and between current and former participants by establishing the TRIO Project ASPIRE Peer Mentoring/Coaching program.
- Document services provided and prepare pertinent reports using TRIO Project ASPIRE's student information database, BLUMEN weekly; attends professional workshops and conferences.
- Organize and facilitate at least one academic support workshop per semester, and offers additional academic support by maintaining and updating supplemental materials (electronic and printed) pertinent to students' academic needs; organize and facilitate one technology instruction workshop per semester.
- Act as liaison with financial aid office; review financial aid packages with each student.
- Serve as a resource person to faculty, staff and students on academic/financial issues.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Human Services, Higher Education Student Services, Counseling, or equivalent.
- Three years of relevant experience.
- Counseling or experience with direct service to college students.
- Experience and Understanding of Financial Aid procedures
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Excellent organizational skills; high attention to detail; independent; self-motivated; able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to communicate with many individuals at all levels throughout the internal college environment and external business and community partners, representing himself/herself professionally and courteously.
- Ability to communicate clearly verbally and, in writing.
- Ability to multi-task, work under deadlines, and •Counseling or experience with direct service to college students projects to meet deadlines with high levels of efficiency and accuracy.
- Must have proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Forms, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Word).
- TRIO experience an exceptionally valued skill
- First-generation, economically disadvantaged background greatly valued.
- Experience in and understanding of working with students from diverse populations is preferred.
- Experience working at the community college level is preferred.
Gateway Community & Technical College is a member of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and is a public two-year degree-granting institution serving the Northern Kentucky Region - part of the Greater Cincinnati Region and is Northern Kentucky's only public, accredited, comprehensive two-year institution. Gateway offers high-quality, targeted education to meet the personal and professional needs of students and contribute to the economic development of the region.
Gateway engages, connects, and inspires all students through education to successfully champion our region's competitive workforce and improve their quality of life.
Gateway offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity.
KY law requires state and national pre-employment background checks as a condition of employment.