Academic Success Coach at the Academic Success Center (Part Time)

Job Details

The Academic Success Coach position at Jefferson University – East Falls Campus is a part-time, 18-hour per week position. This positionm is key to the Academic Success Center’s learning support team, working individually with Undergraduate, Graduate, and Adult and Online Learners. In addition to individual student sessions, this Coach position requires some program development and implementation, based on student needs and faculty requests. This Academic Success Coach serves as a professional learning support specialist, maintaining regular weekly coaching hours during the fall and spring semesters while providing individual coaching, facilitating workshops, and contributing to student success initiatives.

Applicants to this position should have coaching or college-level teaching or coaching experience and/or extensive knowledge of time management and active study strategies to support the programs and courses taught at Jefferson University – East Falls Campus.

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Coach students one-on-one and deliver workshops on academic success skills and habits. Workshops may include building calendars, metacognitive habits, active study strategies, and facilitating supported study spaces during assessment periods (Midterm and Final Exams)
• Collaborate extensively with the Academic Success Center’s full-time staff in program development and outreach across different student populations, including first-year undergraduate students on academic probation and new or advanced graduate students in the didactic phase or clinical rotations, etc.

• Work as a collaborative member of the Academic Success Center team on specific student retention and success initiatives, such as first-gen and neurodiverse students programming

• Administrative functions include collaboration on updating learning-support materials and coordinating learning-support-related events under the direction of the Academic Success team

• Log hours in a payroll system (My Time) and use an online tutoring scheduling/early alert system (Starfish) to track appointments, record tutoring outcome notes, and outreach to students identified as needing strategic academic intervention

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):

• Ability to work effectively with diverse undergraduate, graduate, adult, and online student populations.
• Knowledge of evidence-based learning strategies, metacognition, time management, and study skills.
• Ability to collaborate with faculty, staff, and campus partners, using strong organizational, planning, rapport-building, and program development skills

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Education, Higher Education, or a related field, plus relevant professional coaching or student success credentials; OR

• Master's degree in Higher Education, Education, or a closely related field.

AND

• Experience: Two (2) years of experience providing academic coaching, advising, tutoring, teaching, or student success support in an educational setting preferred

Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:

• Certified Academic Coach or equivalent coaching certification required for Bachelor’s level applicants, preferred with Master’s
• Certified Tutor or CRLA-related training preferred
• Professional memberships related to academic coaching, student success, higher education, or advising preferred

Additional Information

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Starfish, Canvas/other learning management or student success systems preferred.

• Availability to work occasional evening or weekend hours.
• Hybrid position requires at least one day per week in person.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Temporary

Employee Entity

Philadelphia University

Primary Location Address

3101 School House Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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