College Success Coach (Restricted)

Paul D. Camp Community College is a small 2-year college in Southeast Virginia. Campuses are located in Franklin and Suffolk. There also is a center in Smithfield. The college offers associate degrees, certificates, and career studies certificates In transfer and career/technical programs; credit and non-credit workforce services and training for businesses and industries; special interest classes for the community; and summer classes for youth through the Regional Workforce Development Center. A dual enrollment program for high school students, online courses, and developmental studies classes are available at the college as well.

Core responsibilities:

-Performing complex technical and statistical data analysis and communicate findings to stakeholders such as state and local boards, the College Foundation, senior administrators, the VCCS System office, the public, students, parents, and other schools, faculty, staff, special interest groups, and subject professionals to provide educational information and technical assistance, to discuss career opportunities to assess interests and promote programs.
-Communicating with students in the target population on a weekly basis. Engage in individual and small student group sessions.
-Interact with faculty and other on and off-campus resources to ensure that students have access to needed resources and support that will lead to program completion.
-Provide outreach to all College students who have a reported need.
-Disseminate materials through mailings, and in-service trainings targeting the Department of Social Services, private care providers, and other organizations that provide services to foster care youth.
-Assist students in the target population to develop individualized academic plans and apply for financial aid and scholarships.
-Identify academic and personal needs and making referrals to tutoring, other learning support resources, and community resources. Provide follow-up with each student as needed.
-Collaborate with high school coaches to identify foster care youth in the local high schools to provide with youth with a structured environment and wraparound services to enhance their transition into college and put them on the path to independence.
-Project planning and applying financial and grant management principles.
-Conducting educational-based research analysis, identifying problem areas, and compiling statistical data to support program goals and objectives. Creating program and outcome measures.
-Establishing systematic program interventions aimed at student success. Identifying problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
-Preparing grant-required reports and reporting by designated deadlines.
-Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
-Serve on college committees or other areas as needed by the College.

This is a part-time restricted classified position. Continuation of employment is based on funding availability.