Learning Specialist - Joplin

Job Type: Staff

Job Description:

The Learning Specialist assists with the University’s learning enhancement program, serves as a learning support resource for students and faculty across KCU colleges and programs, and helps ensure effective delivery of student learning services. The position works collaboratively under the direction of the Director of Learning Enhancement to ensure access to learning support is integrated, responsive, and equitably available to students across the University.

• Engage students individually and through group learning activities, providing evidence-based strategies related to learning processes, knowledge acquisition, retention, retrieval, application, and self-regulated learning.
• Apply evidence-informed principles of learning, cognition, memory, metacognition, knowledge acquisition, retrieval, and self-regulated learning when supporting students.
• Work confidently across disciplines and unfamiliar subject matter by leveraging expertise in learning frameworks, inquiry skills, and collaborative problem-solving while forming partnerships that help bridge technical domains.
• Partner with academic programs to understand their curricular milestones and assessment models to effectively deliver targeted learning enhancement strategies that complement direct faculty instruction.
• Build productive, student-centered relationships by communicating effectively, establishing appropriate expectations and boundaries, and collaborating with students, faculty, academic leaders, student-affairs colleagues, and other University partners.
• Help students identify patterns in their learning, recognize barriers to performance, and develop strategies that promote understanding, retention, retrieval, application, and transfer of knowledge.
• Use academic coaching techniques, including questioning, reflection, goal setting, feedback, and accountability, to help students develop greater independence, self-awareness, and ownership of their learning.
• Provide both proactive and responsive support, including assistance for students seeking to optimize their learning as well as students experiencing academic difficulty.
• Use student performance information, reflection, and other available data to guide conversations, interventions, goal setting, and follow-up.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of learning strategies and interventions using student performance information, reflection, feedback, and other available data, adjusting approaches as needed to support student progress.
• Develop and facilitate learning-focused workshops, resources, and programming that can be applied across student populations and academic programs.
• Maintain current knowledge of evidence-based practices in learning science, academic coaching, student success, and emerging approaches to supporting learners across diverse academic programs and environments.
• Maintain student records in compliance with FERPA and keep accurate documentation of sessions, meetings, and other communications as appropriate.
• Contribute as an active member of and collaborator for the Learning Enhancement team.

• Bachelor’s degree in counseling, education, or related discipline.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Five years of experience working with students in graduate, professional, health professions, or other academically rigorous educational environments.
• Experience supporting learners across multiple academic disciplines or professional programs.
• Knowledge of assessment, academic-performance data, learning analytics, or early-alert/student-success systems.
• Experience developing educational resources, workshops, curricula, or scalable student-learning interventions.
• Familiarity with the academic demands and learning environments…