NISS Program Advisor : NISS Coach

Employer: Georgia State University
Location: Atlanta, GA

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Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

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NISS Program Advisor: NISS Coach

National Institute for Student Success (NISS)

Georgia State University

The Advisor for NISS Partnerships will organize and manage customized support for NISS partner institutions through its high-touch services of peer coaching and cohort membership. The position provides ongoing, personalized attention and customized implementation assistance based on the institution’s or the cohort’s unique and shared characteristics and challenges. This includes the development and delivery of a customized diagnostic playbook specific to the partner institution’s.

The office is located at GSU’s downtown Atlanta campus.

The position’s work schedule is in-office five days per week.

WHAT MAKES The NISS A GREAT PLACE?

A knowledge-sharing organization that works collaboratively with diverse partners.

Professional development opportunity and mentorship

A rapidly growing center within an academic setting

HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL DO

Support the Director of NISS partnerships in the delivery of the high touch services and programs provided by the NISS, including

coaching services, cohort management, and partner institution engagement.

Provides ongoing, personalized attention and customized implementation assistance based on the institution’s or the cohort’s

unique and shared characteristics and challenges.

Conduct seminars and workshops for program participants and partner institutions.

Assist in the coordination of diagnostic playbook customization for each program participant and conduct assessments of program

effectiveness.

Maintain NISS program files and prepares a variety of reports on institutional partner learning and program implementation outcomes.

Provide in-person and virtual learning modules through classroom training and one-on-one engagements.

Work with subject matter experts to develop and deliver program curriculum and learning modules.

Qualifications
Minimum Hiring Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and three years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.

College/Business Unit
Open until filled

College/Business Unit: Enrollment Management
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 10/01/26, 8:58:52 AM

Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.

Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.

More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.

The University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.

Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.

The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.

The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.