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Strategic Success Advisor (Grant Funded) Re-Published

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Spelman College
Location
Atlanta, GA

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Job Title:

Strategic Success Advisor (Grant Funded) Re-Published

Job Summary:

The Strategic Success Advisor is responsible for devising student-centered academic support with a basis of knowledge in effective instructional strategies and data-driven interventions. The Strategic Success Advisor fosters holistic student success and persistence to graduation in support of the College’s strategic plan goals. This position works closely with the Director and Associate Director of Student Success to oversee and implement in-person and online programs and initiatives supporting undergraduate and adult certificate program student success.

NOTE: This position is currently grant-funded but will be institutionalized once funding ends.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

•Supports student success strategically, using data analysis to evaluate student and institutional data, robust tracking, high-touch communications, and customized success action plans.
•Uses the student success management system (e.g., EAB Navigate) daily to monitor student performance, tracks outcomes of individualized success plans and targeted interventions, and reports on short-cycle student success metrics (e.g., percent of students improving their GPA). Isolate target populations with advance search features, create student lists, design and execute interventions, and track the impact of these interventions and compare against non-treatment populations. Generate reports and visualize results for Director and campus partners.
•Extracts data from the student success management system to identify key risk factors and student groups within caseloads (e.g., low HS GPA and low midterm grades in key courses), designs/executes outreach, and monitors evolving needs on students in caseload. Gathers pertinent information, compiles, and summarizes data and information for reports in coordination with Institutional Research, Office of the Registrar, and Undergraduate Studies. Conducts surveys and/or analyzes and maintains program data to gauge program effectiveness.
•Customizes outreach, academic support, and learning and behavioral modification strategies to the needs of the traditional and non-traditional student populations (e.g., adult and certificate program learners).
•Collaborates with students to develop and document individualized success plans that include major and career goals, service learning, and impactful experiences such as study abroad, internships and mentored research. Works with students with varying learning abilities to assess their needs, strengths, and weaknesses. Identifies and provides actionable strategies to improve their academic performance and overall success.
•Drives measurable student outcomes and improves overall term-to-term retention by engaging in strategic and proactive (intrusive) caseload management.
•Designs, develops, and delivers workshops and training to faculty and staff in the use of student success management system as well as Student Success Program services and resources.
•Serves a central role in creating a web of supportive relationships around the student to include faculty advisor, academic dean, and program director/lead (where applicable). Serves as an integral player among campus-wide support offices. Executes intrusive strategies and develops holistic approaches for success based on a variety of independently generated feedback mechanisms.
•Employs a holistic advising approach to include support for registration, financial well-being, career preparation, and academic performance.

Required Qualifications:

Master’s degree in Education is required. Three recent years of progressively responsible experience developing, owning, or assessing innovative student success initiatives for undergraduates and/or adult and certificate programs is required. Evidence of professional experience managing, collecting and analyzing data for decision-making also is required. Applicant must demonstrate proficient and ongoing use of technology (EAB Navigate is preferred) to design and build effective, efficient student campaigns and interventions.

This dynamic individual will be high energy, student engaged and a unique problem solver assuring that the student experience results in a quality educational experience, a high level of student satisfaction and expanded opportunities in life. Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills are required when presenting information and responding to questions from faculty, administrators, staff, students, parents, and the general public in one-on-one or group situations. This position also requires excellent organizational skills. Ability to multi-task priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Incumbent must be able to write business correspondence and procedure manuals plus compose memos, letters, and e-mails. Excellent grammatical and proofreading skills are essential.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have intermediate skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). This position requires excellent technological skills that include: data management and the use of statistical and other software packages. Knowledge of Banner Enterprise Reporting Planning (ERP) system and the ability to extract and manage student data from this system is important. Experience with Microsoft Access. Experience with Microsoft Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications:

Expert knowledge of and experience with predictive analytics is preferred.

Shift:

Days

% Travel Required:

0%

Full Time/Part Time:

Full-time

FLSA:

Exempt

Number of Vacancies:

1

Posting Number:

SC0288P

Posting Open Date:

04/20/2021

Open Until Filled:

Yes

EEO Statement:

Spelman College is an EEO/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Title IX Employer and we participate in E-Verify. We are a smoke-free campus.

Organization

Working at Spelman College

Spelman College is a prestigious, highly selective historically Black college that prepares women to change the world. Spelman’s holistic liberal arts education empowers women to excel intellectually, think creatively, serve wholeheartedly, act globally, and lead boldly. Located in Atlanta, Spelman College’s multifaceted, person-centered learning community creates lasting bonds of sisterhood and support. Providing an educational experience unlike any other, Spelman embraces a long-standing and life-changing commitment to academic rigor, career development, community involvement, and positive social impact.

Spelman is part of the Atlanta University Center, the largest consortium of historically Black institutions of higher learning in the world. Its partner institutions include Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Morehouse School of Medicine. Spelman shares cross-registration with its undergraduate partners. The AUC institutions also share the newly renovated Robert W. Woodruff Library.

A historic campus of 32 acres, dating back to 1883, Spelman is five minutes west of downtown Atlanta. There are 25 buildings on the lush, well-manicured campus, including a new, silver LEED- certified green residence hall, The Suites, and The Camille O. Hanks Cosby Academic Center, which houses the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and the state-of-the-art College Archives.

As a result of its dedicated faculty and staff, Spelman College has gained an excellent national reputation and high rankings in the media’s annual college guides. The College ranks among the top 70 Best Liberal Arts Colleges, consistently ranks as a top producer of Fulbright Fellows and Teach For America candidates, and has the distinction of being the leading producer of Black females who go on to earn doctoral degrees in science and engineering.

Spelman College is also home to SpelBots, the first all-women, African-American robotics team to take part in the international RoboCup competition in 2005, long considered the Olympics of Robotics and artificial intelligence. In addition, the Women’s Research and Resource Center, the WISDOM Center and Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, as well as the College’s departments of art and drama and dance, are among the many esteemed programs that showcase the College’s strengths in the humanities, arts and service leadership.

Dedicated, talented, and well-qualified faculty members are a hallmark of Spelman College. Home to 183 full-time faculty members, Spelman boasts an 11:1 student/faculty ratio, providing students with greater opportunities to engage with professors across disciplines. The William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship Program, for example, supports professorships in the fine arts, humanities and the social sciences. It is a multidisciplinary initiative designed to enhance the intellectual, cultural and creative life of Spelman College and its surrounding community. Previous Cosby Chairs include former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin; award-winning author and poet Pearl Cleage, C’71; the Rev. Renita Weems; distinguished scholar and economist William Darity, Ph.D.; and Bernice Johnson Reagon, C'70, an internationally known producer, composer and recording artist, and founder of the Grammy Award-nominated a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey and the Rock.

Spelman faculty have a significant impact on the College’s mission to educate students to lead and serve their communities and the world. To this end, Spelman’s iconic representative is the Millenial professor. The College is strengthening its Faculty Development Program to be comprehensive – recruiting and retaining talented individuals who pursue creative, rigorous scholarship and course development within their disciplines and in multidisciplinary ventures. These professors will also lead the way in internationalizing the curriculum.

As part of the College’s strategic plan for 2015, Spelman’s agenda is to strengthen the academic core of the institution. Constituents such as students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumnae, trustees and community partners participate by taking specific actions called GOALS. Spelman’s faculty goals are: global engagement; ongoing professional development; advising students to prepare not only for careers but for lives of success, leadership, and service; leadership through participation in shared governance; and service learning integrated across the curriculum.

The Spelman MILE – My Integrated Learning Experience – forms the foundation of Spelman College’s strategic plan. Symbolizing a transformational journey of learning, the Spelman MILE will ensure key competencies – such as critical thinking, effective communication, quantitative reasoning, and digital literacy – that Millenial students need for personal success. Student GOALS include: global engagement, including at least one meaningful international travel experience; opportunities for undergraduate research and career-related internships; alumnae connections to strengthen our sisterly bonds early on; leadership development focused on individual potential and best practices; and service learning that pairs hands-on community engagement with coursework shared governance.

Each year, the College hosts Research Day in April, as well as Faculty Research Day in October. Both events are designed to showcase excellence in student and faculty research across academic disciplines.

For more information about Spelman, visit http://www.spelman.edu/.

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Location
350 Spelman Lane SW
Atlanta
GA
30314
United States

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