Student Success Coach Job at Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL

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  • Bethune-Cookman University
  • Daytona Beach, FL

Job Description

Bethune Cookman University

POSITION: Student Success Coach

DEPARTMENT: Office of Student Success & Retention Services

REPORTS TO: Director, Center for Academic Excellence

STATUS: Full-Time

POSITION SUMMARY: The Success Coach helps students develop skills, behaviors, and habits that contribute to success in college. These include academic and career goal setting, learning strategies, time management, self-regulation, and self-efficacy. Provides academic advising to undergraduate students and builds relationships that support their academic and career plans. This position is responsible for working one-on-one with students to help them develop effective learning strategies and become self-guided learners. The Student Success Coach will help students improve academically by identifying strengths and weaknesses and creating a structured and collaborative approach to support academic progress.

Essential Responsibilities
  • Develops and maintains working relationships with counselors and administrators to promote the program
  • Uses the Developmental Intrusive Academic Advising model to build relationships with new and current students to support student success and retention
  • Coordinates and integrates initiatives that promote and enhance student services and activities
  • Creates academic plans for students and communicates with them on a regular basis
  • Assists students with academic and career advising, as well as assistance with students continuing on academic warning, probation, or dismissal
  • Aids students in the understanding of graduation requirements, academic policies, and procedures, and assist students with unofficial degree audits.
  • Refers students to other services on campus and off-campus such as academic advising, counseling and career services, tutoring, and other resources to support the students' personal needs
  • Serves as a student advocate and mentor, acting as a liaison among students, faculty, college departments, and community resources
  • Assists with New Student Orientation, Wildcat Immersion Scholars Program, and other summer enrichment programs as needed
  • Provides students with skills-building strategies that will promote self-guided learning
  • Works with students to develop and strengthen time management and organizational skills
  • Motivates students to take ownership of their own academic success
  • Documents and monitors student academic progress.
  • Assists students with developing critical thinking skills that promote good decision-making
  • Plans and facilitates Student Success Workshops
  • Provides specialized academic coaching sessions
  • Assists students with focusing on individual goals and identifying steps to reaching goals
  • Assists students with identifying obstacles that may interfere with their academic success
  • Performs other duties as assigned
  • Will require some evening and weekend hours

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Knowledge and understanding of the organization, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures
  • Knowledge and proficiency in computers, especially Microsoft office applications
  • Strong knowledge of student support programs and ability to make referrals
  • Possess strong oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to meet deadlines and attention to detail
  • Experience in teaching college-level students

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree with at least 3 years of experience in academic advising or a closely related field.
  • Mastery of proactive academic advising techniques
  • General understanding of students' affective domain and knowledge of resources to assist students' needs.
The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, retaliation, marital status, religion or disability, or any other applicable local, state, or federal regulation. Inquiries regarding provisions for persons with disabilities, equal employment opportunity, and Title IX matters should be directed to the Office of Human Resources at 386-481-2049.

The university reserves the right to modify job descriptions at any time in its attempts to improve the operations of the university Bethune-Cookman University

Job Tags

Full time, Summer work, Local area, Trial period, Weekend work, Afternoon shift,

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