Special Programs Coordinator, Programming Coordinator Upward Bound Program

Special Programs Coordinator, Programming Coordinator for the Upward Bound Program

North Shore Community College is a diverse, caring, inclusive community that inspires our students to become engaged citizens and to achieve their personal, academic, and career goals through accessible, affordable, rigorous educational opportunities that are aligned with our region's workforce needs and will prepare them for life in a changing world. NSCC is one of 15 Massachusetts community colleges, which serves the 26 cities and towns north of Boston.

Since its founding in 1965, NSCC has grown from a single leased building to an urban campus in downtown Lynn and a suburban campus in Danvers, and from five to 80 academic programs of study. Nearly 50,000 students have graduated from NSCC. The college is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

Special Programs Coordinator, Programming Coordinator for the Upward Bound Program

MCCC Unit Professional position, Grade 4;
Grant funded

Campus

Location:

Lynn

Schedule: 37.5 hours per week Monday-Friday as follows:

• 10:00 AM?6:00 PM and occasional weekend and evenings during the academic year and
• 8:00 AM?4:00 plus a residential component (Sunday-Friday) during the summer program

SALARY: Anticipated starting salary is $65,370.00 - $67,000.00. Actual salary will be commensurate with education and experience in accordance with the MCCC/MTA collective bargaining agreement.

Full time benefited employees at North Shore Community College are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package offered through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

At this time, the College is not providing sponsor ships for Visas.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:

The Programming Coordinator/Educational Advisor works with low-income, first-generation, and/or academically at-risk high school students from the Lynn Public School district. The coordinator works to increase the rate at which participants complete their secondary school education, and enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.

The Program Coordinator is a dynamic and engaging team player who coordinates, plans, and implements program activities and tracks and promotes students' progress towards post-secondary goals.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify, recruit, and select program participants to meet grant goals and objectives;
• Plan, organize, and implement after school and weekend cultural, service, and recreational activities and workshops;
• Coordinate and chaperone college presentations and tours;
• Track, monitor, support, and promote students' academic progress, program participation, and progress towards post-secondary goals; meet with students quarterly or more frequently as needed;
• Co-coordinate and facilitate all aspects of the summer program, including but not limited to recommending staff to be hired, providing assistance with orientation, integrating the summer theme, and activity planning.
• Support the after-school tutoring program;
• Assist with supervision of student workers and temporary staff;
• Engage in outreach efforts to inform students, families and partner agencies of program service;
• Assist with student academic and career assessment and senior recommendations;
• Document activities and services; maintain confidential records, run reports, and track students' progress and program outcomes using Blumen? database;
• Create family and alumni newsletters. Update the program's bulletin boards and other social media accounts;
• Establish and maintain relationships with secondary institutions, postsecondary institutions and community agencies as relevant for specific program needs;
• Attend and participate in state and regional conferences and other relevant professional development;
• Collaborat…