Academic Advisor III (Student Success Coach/Academic Advisor)
Academic Advisor III (Student Success Coach/Academic Advisor)
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$ 3490 - 4363
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Job Description
Title: Academic Advisor III (Student Success Coach/Academic Advisor)
Salary Range: $3490 $4363 per month
Contract Term Length:12 Months
Standard Hours:37.5
Work Location:OnSite
FLSA Status: NonExempt
College: Bluegrass Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Bluegrass C&TC Newtown Pike Campus
Department: Academics & Student Services
Total Rewards
Bluegrass Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence innovation and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care vision dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you your spouse and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- WorkLife Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
The Student Success Coach/Academic Advisor provides a holistic case management model of student services to facilitate student completion of educational goals. The Advisor will work directly with new returning assigned referred and perspective students to assist them in reaching their educational goals. The Advisor will provide information to faculty and students about various college and community resources monitor academic progress provide individualized academic coaching/guidance and identify (collaboratively) solutions to barriers (social and academic). In addition the Advisor will assist students with understanding college procedures and policies and respond to questions from students parents and other interested parties.
Job Duties:
- Increase student persistence retention certificate/degree/diploma completion and/or successful transfer.
- Operate in a case management/hightouch service role focused on retention management outreach and intervention. Activities include assessment advising monitoring academic progress providing holistic career counseling services (career assessments employability skills services and placement services) creating an academic plan for each student during their first semester and following up with students to ensure semester to semester completion with the goal of program and degree completion.
- Conduct holistic intake assessments to measure and characterize individual student skills characteristics needs and barriers providing an inclusive and supportive environment for all students.
- Engage students with regular communication through various means such as email phone classroom visits video appointments (Teams etc.) text and facetoface conversation.
- Assist the Dual Credit office with enrollment for dual credit students as requested. This may include but not be limited to: dual credit orientations dual credit enrollment events and assistance with dual credit enrollment activities.
- Develop and enact ongoing communication and targeted outreach plans for special populations including email texting campaigns social media etc. Participate in outreach campaigns targeted at select populations throughout the year.
- Provide ongoing and individualized academic coaching for students which includes personalized communications and prompts oneonone meetings to identify academic financial and social barriers to academic and career success and academic plan development to overcome these barriers and reach established goals.
- Refer and/or assist students with navigating both college services and community services and resources when appropriate. These referrals include interventions to address mental health issues disability support services food or housing insecurities financial aid assistance and more. Assist in scheduling appointments with these resources when necessary.
- Complete appropriate documentation and concise notes of student interactions referrals resources and interventions. Provide academic and career advising to new returning assigned referred visiting and prospective students across all campuses as well as undecided and probation students.
- Assist in developing advising and assessment policies procedures and processes.
- Assist in developing communication tools. Assist with programming workshops and presentations for students faculty and staff on a variety of topics to include but not be limited to career interests employability skills resume writing mock interviews and career fairs.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in related field and four years related experience or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills organizational skills leadership skills attention to detail and technical and professional knowledge.
- Strong computer skills and the ability to work in a fastpaced environment.
- Demonstrate ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Masters degree in related field and four years related experience or equivalent.
- Bilingual is Preferred
Additional Skills Requested:
Employee Rights Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Equal Opportunity Employer The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
