Peer Leader [Hourly]

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access through traditional and distance learning modes to higher education and workforce training including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the colleges mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students low-income students and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

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Job Description Summary:

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Description of Duties and Tasks

• Serve as a positive and welcoming ACC representative who supports first-year students in navigating their transition to college.

• Build meaningful peer-to-peer connections that foster belonging engagement and affirmation.

• Maintain proactive contact with assigned first-year students through approved ACC communication channels and engagement touchpoints.

• Provide timely clear and student-friendly communication; respond to inquiries and direct students to appropriate resources.

• Promote participation in Orientation follow-up activities OFYE programs Riverbat Connection Hours and other first-year engagement opportunities.

• Connect students to campus resources including Academic Advising Accelerated Learning Support Career Life Design Services Transfer Services CARE Network (Basic Needs) Financial Aid Student Rights & Responsibilities Student Life & Leadership and related support services.

• Encourage help-seeking behaviors and appropriately escalate student concerns to professional staff when needed.

• Track student engagement communication outreach and referral activity using OFYE-approved systems.

• Assist with outreach campaigns (e.g. orientation status reminders milestone check-ins) throughout summer and fall terms.

• Support planning and implementation of OFYE events tabling efforts and community-building initiatives.

• Perform general office and administrative support tasks including data entry maintaining tracking logs producing materials and operating standard office equipment.

• Participate in marketing campaigns including Social Media posts newsletters ACCTV and other channels.

• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge

• Office procedures and practices.

• Interpersonal communication & outreach techniques.

• Customer service techniques.

Skills

• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

• Maintaining an established work schedule.

• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills.

• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.

• Employing a growth mindset: embracing challenges persisting through setbacks continuous learning and curiosity.

• Entering data maintaining files and performing other clerical duties.

• Effective customer-orientation when working with a multicultural population.

• Serve as a bridge between Orientation learning and real-time first-year experiences.

• May require some evening and weekend shifts.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet word processing database and presentation software.

• May also use social media work with desktop publishing and update webpages.

Required Education

• Must be currently enrolled at Austin Community College.

Physical Requirements

• Work is routinely performed in a standard office or similar environment.

• Must have a reliable means of transportation each day to complete expected travel throughout the ACC District.

• Subject to standing walking sitting bending reaching kneeling pushing and pulling.

• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Pay Rate

$23.00/hour

15 hours per week

Position Duration: May 18 2026 - December 22 2026

Number of Openings:

Job Posting Close Date:

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education employees are required to report violations under Title IX and under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act) you will be notified trained and provided resources for reporting.

Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information.

For direct access to the current Annual Security Report visit . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( ). For an overview see ACCs Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add change amend or delete portions of this job description at any time with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested directed or addition reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.