9th Grade Scholars Advisor

Title: 9th Grade Scholars Advisor

Department:SEO Scholars Miami

Reporting to: Executive Director SEO Scholars Miami

Compensation: $58656 $65700(Annually)

FLSA: FullTime Exempt

Location/Hours: Miami Florida (Hybrid 3 days/week in person)

• This is an eventheavy position managing sessions workshops and special events with external partners is a neardaily responsibility in addition to 1:1 student and family meetings as needed.
• Work requires traveling to different physical locations for recruitment in the fall and Saturday programming in the spring.

All candidates must be within commutable distance of central Miami upon hire.

Weekly Schedule:

• Fall Term: Monday through Friday (about 23 Saturday and evening events)
• Spring Term: Tuesday through Saturday 3 months); Monday through Friday some weeks
• Summer Term: Monday through Friday

ABOUT SEO

Founded in 1963 during the Civil Rights Movement SEO closes educational and career opportunity gaps for 7000 ambitious young people annually.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The 9th Grade Scholar Advisor plays two essential roles: 1 introducing potential Scholars families and partners to SEO Scholars and 2 onboarding incoming Scholars to the program their first semester. Accordingly this position has a mix of studentfacing and strategic responsibilities. As a Scholar Advisor you will help implement the Recruitment & Admissions strategy; help develop special initiatives that support operations marketing communications partnerships and outreach; manage the Scholar admissions process; and work directly with incoming Scholars to provide individualized guidance and support and implement quality advisory programming with effective intervention strategies to successfully meet student outcomes.

As key players in the onboarding process for incoming Scholars the 9th Grade Scholar Advisor sets the foundation for critical habits knowledge and mindsets that allow Scholars to effectively leverage the opportunities offered at SEO Scholars.

An ideal candidate will enjoy working oneonone with students enjoy and excel at public speaking and thrive in the areas of marketing partnership development and project management.

Responsibilities include:

Recruitment and Admissions50

• Supports Senior Manager of Student Recruitment and Retention for Miami on executing the admissions strategy and the successful selection of a competitive incoming class. Including helping to review incoming applications and make recommendations for advancement in the admissions process participating in interviews for prospective Scholars and contributing to deliberation sessions with the team to select the nal class.
• Liaise with school and community stakeholders to facilitate recruitment presentations and application workshops and provide individual support to prospective applicants and their families. This may include managing a portfolio of MDCPS public high schools.

• Partner with peers and colleagues throughout the Scholars team to support the admissions strategy and timeline ensuring timely of key milestones documentation of processes and data and the successful selection of a competitive incoming 9th grade cohort.
• Develop content coordinate across teams and facilitate engaging and informative orientation sessions to ensure successful of Orientation for families and students.
• Help facilitate interviews for prospective Scholars deliberation sessions and partner with Senior team members to coordinate the selection process.
• Review incoming applications and make recommendations for advancement in the admissions process.

Program and Student Management50

• Successfully onboard incoming Scholars 9th grade classes by establishing a culture of high expectations providing individualized guidance and support and implementing quality student advising to meet target retention attendance and assignment completion goals during Saturday and weekday programming. This includes developing/revising content for Opening Circles office hours community time etc.
• Works with the Senior Manager of Student Recruitment and Retention to ensure the translation of data from the Recruitment & Admissions cycle is used to strategically advise and support students through their rst semester at SEO Scholars Miami.
• Develop and refine advisory content including whole group small group and oneonone advising content based on feedback from assigned cohort and in collaboration with the larger team.
• Facilitate community day/community time (inperson and online) during the spring semester. Assist with the planning coordinating and supervising of occasional trips (e.g. college tours).
• Create and nurture an environment that encourages intellectual curiosity; an inclusive closeknit and supportive community; academic excellence college readiness and a collegegoing culture.
• Foster and maintain relationships with parents guardians school partners volunteers and community/corporate partners as needed to improve student experience performance and retention; Provide online academic advising to all Scholars in their assigned cohort through academic advising hours conduct meetings for students and parents and meet with Scholars 1:1 or in small groups.
• Monitor the performance and engagement of all Scholars in the assigned cohort; lead Opening Circle (OC) with highenergy ; track and analyze Scholar attendance assignment completion assessments and grades in SEO Scholars classes high school courses and standardized test scores. Support Scholars by referring Scholars to IT support email as needed.
• Leverage data to develop proactive academic advising strategies that provide socioemotional guidance advising and support to ensure high scholar persistence and retention for SEO Scholars and continued student academic success at their high school.
• Facilitate weekly instructor checkin meetings to gather information about Scholar performance and advise on action plans to support Scholars. Collaborates with instructors to support Scholars successful completion of coursework.
• Tracks progress and manages qualitative and quantitative data to make evidencebased decisions to improve Scholar performance and engagement including making recommendations and ensuring that Scholars successfully follow through with additional support and services. Engage parents guardians and school partners as needed to improve student performance and retention.
• Collaborates with C&Is Teaching and Learning team on various academic program elements including but not limited to grade audits and scholar attendance.
• Manage/update information in Brightspace including but not limited to updating the calendar posting flyers for community day and community time advertising instructor office hours and using Brightspace assignment completion and attendance data to inform proactive academic advising of Scholars.
• Participates in eective transition meetings with the 10thgrade Scholar Advisor to support a successful transition of Scholars between grade levelsincluding obtaining and uploading student academic data and reporting.

QUALIFICATIONS& SKILLS

• Bachelors degree required.
• Direct experience working with high schoolage students. 2 years public teaching experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working in community outreach student recruitment or college admissions. Familiarity and/or experience with public education and youth communities in Miami is strongly preferred.
• A background in student coaching and advising including direct experience interfacing with parents and families.
• Evidence of progressive career growth within roles increasing in responsibility and autonomy.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Must be comfortable communicating internally and externally via email chat phone or video conference.
• Exceptional public speaking skills and ability to connect with and inspire a variety of audiences including students parents educators and nonprofit leaders.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel and data analysis and reporting skills with an affinity towards datadriven outcomes.
• Working knowledge of standard workplace online applications (MS Office Google Suite Box) and proficiency in Zoom and intermediate Excel. Salesforce and LMS experience are a plus.
• Organizational aptitude to manage complex and competing projects set and achieve ambitious goals and communicate progress to various stakeholders.
• Must be available to work a Tuesday through Saturday schedule and some nights as dictated by programming needs.
• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred; all language skills are welcome!

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

SEO offers a competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits plan including lowcost health vision and dental options a generous holiday schedule and PTO policies disability coverage fully paid time off for new parents and employer contributions to health reimbursement and retirement accounts. We are constantly working to improve our benefits each year based on the needs of our employees. We value wellness and strive to consistently use a DEIB lens to put people first and foremost.

The compensation listed in this posting reflects what SEO believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law compensation will be determined based on the skills qualifications and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position and SEO reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

EEOC Policy

At SEO we are committed to cultivating a team that embodies the backgrounds and experiences of the constituencies we serve and the communities we live in and a workplace that reflects the impact we make in the world. Candidates from all communities including people of color women members of the LGBTQIA Community veterans and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity is not just the law it is our commitment.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of race color ethnicity religion sex gender gender identity and expression sexual orientation national origin disability age marital status veteran status pregnancy parental status genetic information or characteristics or any other legally protected status.

If you need accommodation while applying for a role with SEO due to a disability please email SEO Talent.

THE ORGANIZATION

Established in 1963 by Michael Osheowitz SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) is an educational nonprofit founded on the belief that talent is everywhere; but opportunity is not. Our programs are designed to educate train mentor and amplify the voices of our participants to give them a seat at the table every table. We propel human potential.

SEO is an innovator in education mentorship and creating educational career opportunities that maximize the full potential of our participants. Each year SEO serves 7000 participants nationally and the organization is widely recognized for developing bestinclass programs with exceptional results.

Not every SEO participant is on the same journey but all are hungry for opportunity and SEO creates an ecosystem of excellence. Learn more about SEOs programs here: Experience:

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