Student Services Manager - TRIO Talent Search

The TRIO Talent Search Student Services Manager is responsible for implementing and managing the U.S. Department of Education-funded TRIO Talent Search program in collaboration with Lewisville ISD and North Central Texas College. The program aims to identify and assist middle and high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education. The Student Services Manager will provide leadership, program development, and student services to ensure the grant's objectives and compliance with federal guidelines are met.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Program Management:
Develop and implement program activities to meet Talent Search grant objectives. Manage program budgets, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and institutional guidelines. Maintain accurate documentation for reporting purposes, including student records, participation logs, and annual performance reports (APR).

Student Services:
Recruit eligible participants from designated schools in Lewisville ISD. Provide academic, career, and financial aid counseling to participants. Facilitate workshops, college visits, and enrichment activities to promote college readiness and career exploration. Assist students with FAFSA completion, college applications, and scholarship searches.

Outreach &

Collaboration:

Develop partnerships with Lewisville ISD schools, community organizations, colleges, and universities to enhance program delivery. Work closely with school counselors, teachers, and administrators to identify and support participants. Organize parent engagement events to encourage family involvement in students' educational journeys.

Staff Supervision:
Recruit, train, and supervise program staff. Monitor staff performance and ensure professional development opportunities are provided.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Verify, validate and approve quarterly fiscal report and budget amendments by examining and analyzing data provided via monthly expense worksheets in order to ensure that we are meeting milestone expenditure goals and staying compliant with local, state, and federal rules and regulations, while meeting the individualized annual grant goals.

* Prepare bi-annual and annual narrative performance reports by writing responses, and collecting, revising, analyzing submissions from all TRIO programs and supporting departments to then prepare the narrative report and submit in order to provide the DOE information on the status of the TRIO Talent Search deliverables.

* Establish multiple methods for ongoing and thoroughly identifying special populations and first generations students by working with Lewisville ISD Teachers, Admissions, and Counselors and developing collection methods from current and new students in order to determine the size and scope of special population categories in order to analyze outcome gaps existing in TRIO programs. Co-lead with other Grants Office the next re-writes and collaborates with other DOE grants and applications in order to secure funding for projects for the next continuous year