FT Admin - Academic Success Coach
- Employer
- Lansing Community College
- Location
- Lansing, MI
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Community College
Job Details
Driven by compassion, inclusivity, integrity, teamwork, and work-life balance this position within the Student Affairs Division is committed to student success by ensuring high-quality programs and services delivered by a dedicated and caring team of professionals.
The Academic Success Coach is responsible for ensuring that assigned students receive persistent, proactive, individualized mentoring, academic coaching and support throughout their enrollment in Lansing Community College. The Academic Success Coach will:
- Coordinate comprehensive orientation of assigned students to LCC and the College experience.
- Initiate and maintain proactive individualized coaching, mentoring, and encouragement to assigned students to keep them engaged in successfully advancing their education.
- Monitor and track student progress toward completion of the student’s goal (certificate, degree or transfer) on a current or “real time” basis.
- Proactively anticipate and detect ways in which specific support services can be utilized to assist assigned students in successfully advancing their education; identify appropriate interventions and promptly connect assigned students to relevant academic and community resources (e.g., tutors, academic advisors, financial advisors, professional counselors, social service agencies, employment resources, etc.) as necessary to assure academic persistence and success; monitor and track efficacy of such resources in achieving individual student success and persistence, retention, and completion rates of assigned students.
- Monitor and track efficacy of orientation, coaching activities and campus and community support resources in achieving individual student success and persistence, retention, and completion rates of assigned students.
Required:
Bachelor’s Degree in a related area from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
Demonstrated experience in presentation and public speaking, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.
Experience working with diverse populations.
Preferred:
Master’s Degree in a related area from a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
Relevant and progressively responsible experience in recruitment, orientation, advising or student affairs related areas.
Written and oral fluency in Spanish or Arabic.
Experience with case management.
Experience with computer applications, internet tools, social media, communication tools, and student information systems.
Organization
Lansing Community College (LCC) was established in 1957 to fulfill growing demand for specialized and technical education opportunities for the Greater Lansing’s industrial workforce.
LCC is one of the most comprehensive colleges focused upon offering learning opportunities in four areas: career and workforce development, general education, developmental education, and personal enrichment. LCC is recognized as a local, state, national, and international leader in forging educational partnerships with business, industry, and government to better meet the needs of an ever changing, world wide market place. LCC is strategically positioned to provide not only what students determined that they will need, but also what our society will need in the future.
Lansing Community College has been committed to the best in education for over forty years. As one of the largest, most comprehensive community colleges in the country, we are continuing that commitment into the new millennium. Year round classes are offered on our 28-acre, capital city campus. There are more than 150 degree and certificate programs and over 2,500 classes. The first two years of a liberal arts education can be earned at LCC and transferred to a four-year college or university. We offer a comprehensive mix of education and training and we provide state-of-the-art computer labs and classrooms as well as a continuously updated media services center and library.
We have Learning Centers in more than 20 communities within a 30-mile service district which makes Lansing Community College accessible to more people in more areas. For the ultimate in accessibility, we offer a series of Internet courses through our Virtual College.
Lansing Community College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and serves nearly 40,000 people annually. We are committed, as ever, to lifelong education for all.
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