First- Coordinator

Job Summary

The First-Year Experience (FYE) Coordinator is a full-time, twelve-month professional position responsible for advancing Lane College’s strategic vision for student success across the first year. Housed within the Lane Institute, this role is central to ensuring a cohesive, high-impact first-year experience that supports student transition, engagement, leadership development, retention, and academic progression toward timely degree completion.

The FYE Coordinator serves as both a direct student-facing practitioner and a programmatic and instructional coordinator, providing holistic academic advising and mentorship to first-year students while also coordinating teaching, assessment, and instructional alignment across designated first- and second-year seminar courses. This role ensures consistency, quality, and intentional design in foundational student success coursework and programming.

In addition to advising and instruction, the FYE Coordinator leads the implementation of Lane’s Leaning into LANE student success strategy, with a particular emphasis on leadership development, self-efficacy, and purpose-driven learning. The position plays a key role in cultivating leadership competencies among students through curricular and co-curricular initiatives that reinforce institutional learning outcomes and Lane College’s mission to develop the “whole student.”

The FYE Coordinator collaborates extensively with faculty, staff, and administrators to build an integrated network of support that advances retention goals, strengthens instructional practices, and ensures that students successfully complete their first thirty credit hours and transition effectively into their second year and declared majors.

• Serve as the primary academic advisor and mentor for first-year students, providing proactive, holistic advising focused on course selection, degree planning, academic progression, and timely completion of milestones.
• Monitor student academic performance, attendance, engagement, and early-alert indicators; conduct timely outreach and interventions as needed.
• Develop, implement, and monitor individualized academic success and recovery plans for students identified as at risk.
• Integrate career exploration, strengths-based advising, and leadership development tools to support students in clarifying academic, personal, and professional goals.
• Maintain accurate, FERPA-compliant advisement records and intervention documentation using institutional student information and case management systems.

• Teach sections of General Studies and student success seminar courses (e.g., LCC 112, LCC 120, CPI 101, or equivalent), utilizing evidence-based pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching practices.
• Coordinate teaching and instructional alignment across designated first- and second-year seminar sections to ensure consistency in learning outcomes, course content, assignments, and assessment practices.
• Convene and meet routinely with First-Year and Second-Year Experience instructors to support instructional effectiveness, share best practices, review student data, and align programming with institutional priorities.
• Support the onboarding, training, and ongoing professional development of seminar instructors, as appropriate.

• Design, deploy, and analyze course surveys, student feedback instruments, and other assessment tools related to first- and second-year experience courses and programming.
• Collect, analyze, and report data related to student engagement, learning outcomes, retention, and progression to inform programmatic improvements and institutional decision-making.
• Contribute to Lane Institute and Academic Affairs assessment, accreditation, and reporting efforts related to student success initiatives.

• Develop, coordinate, and assess first- and second-year programming initiatives that promote student engagement, leadership development, community building, and academic persistence.
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