Student Success Coach - Oklahoma Baptist University

OBU transforms lives by equipping students to pursue academic excellence, integrate faith with all areas of knowledge, engage a diverse world, and live worthy of the high calling of God in Christ.

Oklahoma Baptist University achieves its mission through a shared commitment to the following expectations. All employees must embrace these expectations and model them in their behavior.

• Demonstrate commitment to the essentials of the Christian faith.
• Commit to the mission and vision of Oklahoma Baptist University.
• Treat people with dignity and respect.
• Build relationships on honesty, integrity, and trust.
• Strive for excellence through teamwork, leadership, and a strong work ethic.
• Manage human and financial resources wisely and efficiently.

The Student Success Coach provides specialized support for designated student populations to promote academic achievement, persistence, retention, and successful progression toward degree completion. The position independently evaluates student academic and engagement needs, develops and implements individualized success strategies and broader student-success initiatives, and exercises professional judgment in determining appropriate interventions, resources, referrals, and follow-up actions.

The Success Coach will actively engage students to build academic success plans, improve success habits, and encourage connection with campus resources. This position serves as a resource and consultant to students and university personnel regarding barriers to academic success and coordinates appropriate institutional resources to address identified needs. The position contributes to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of student-success practices and programming consistent with the University's academic mission.

• Solicit the support and assistance of appropriate university personnel to engage with at-risk students to coordinate cross-functional student-success interventions to develop appropriate responses to identified academic or persistence concerns.
• Develop and implement individualized academic-success strategies by tracking academic progress and overall engagement in the OBU experience for assigned students and populations, exercising professional judgment in establishing goals, recommending interventions, identifying appropriate campus resources, and determining follow-up strategies based on individual circumstances.
• Analyze and monitor student academic progress and engagement using institutional systems and reporting tools to identify trends, emerging concerns, and opportunities for intervention; use findings to inform recommendations and improvements to student success practices.
• Initiate and execute additional programming for the student body to promote academic success strategies, connections with faculty, and overall engagement as it relates to academic excellence.
• Exercise independent judgment in responding to academic alerts and student concerns, evaluating available information and determining appropriate outreach, referral, intervention, escalation, or follow-up within established university policies and practices.
• Work alongside other staff in the Milburn Center for Student Success in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of student-success initiatives and academic-support practices.
• Coordinate the administration of On Campus ACT and National ACT testing, exercising responsibility for the planning, scheduling, communication, administration, compliance, and operational coordination necessary to ensure effective implementation of testing programs.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality and discretion…