POOL Academic Success Coach

Please see Special Instructions for more details.

Applications submitted to this recruitment pool are reviewed on an as needed basis. Qualified applicants will be contacted when positions become available.

Please complete the online application and upload or attach the following required documents:

• Resume
• Unofficial Academic Transcript (if needed to meet minimum qualifications)

If your transcript is issued in a language other than English, please include a translated copy.

This posting is for a pooled position. Application submissions for “POOL” positions are accepted on an ongoing basis to ensure a continuous and ready pool of qualified candidates for immediate review when the need arises. If/when a position becomes available, the College will review applications from this pool, and interview candidates whose qualifications best match the specific opening.

Applicants must reapply to the pool annually to maintain their active status in the pool.

Academic Success Coach assists students in developing skills, behaviors, and habits that contribute to success in college. Academic Success Coaches provides guidance, encouragement, and practical strategies to help students with varying backgrounds to excel academically and make the most of their college experience. This position will provide individualized and small group instruction to augment student’s strategic learning skills in college.

Required Qualifications:

Applications are reviewed for minimum qualifications. In order to be considered, your application must clearly show you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Education and Experience:

• Position requires a AA/AS degree, plus a minimum of two years, full time teaching or experience providing instructional support or assisting students with individualized assistance in reading, writing, communication, and/or learning strategies in a college setting or an equivalent combination of education and experience that enables performance of all aspects of the position.
• Must have the ability to use Academic Coaching best practices and appropriate materials for delivering coaching strategies and interventions to learners.
• Requires excellent human relations, problem-solving, accountability, and excellent written, oral, and technological communication skills.

• Requires strong communication skills to effectively interact with students with diverse backgrounds. Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as relevant to academic success.
• Willing to learn and keep up on the knowledge of campus department partners for consultation and referrals, and of academic curriculum to give general academic advice and make referrals.
• Requires a working and theoretical knowledge of academic coaching principles and practices and techniques sufficient to instruct students and adjust methods to individual needs.
• Requires demonstrated ability to independently perform the essential responsibilities and take initiative to identify and solve problems.
• Must have the organizational skills to prioritize tasks and to complete assignments accurately, neatly, and efficiently.
• Requires the ability to assess and sensitively respond to the learning needs of diverse students.
• Requires ability to operate general office equipment, including computers with word processing, database, and college supported technologies students have access to, and appointment scheduling software.

Preferred Qualifications:

Previous experience working at the college level is preferred.

Physical Requirements and

Working Conditions:

• Requires the ability to operate a computer and other office equipment, distribute class materials and to communicate in writing with students.
• Requires ability to comprehend written and spoken language, accurately processing words and numbers, in person and via the telephone.
• Must be able to move among students in the work environment to provide individualized support.
• Work is performed in a high-activity instructional service area involving background conversations, frequent multitasking, frequent interruptions, and a focus on immediate response to students’ diverse needs.
• Moderate time is spent…