Job Description
You First AAPI Student Success Coach Benefits of working at VCU All full-time university staff are eligible for VCU's robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, generous tuition benefit,retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more. Learn more about VCU's benefits here.
Job Code 35224
Recruitment Pool All Applicants
Posting Number req6058
Unit Offc of Strategic Enrollment Mngmnt
Department 1904 Office of Special Programs
Department Website Link Location VCU
Address 907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284 USA
Duties & Responsibilities Position Summary: Working under the Department of Education's AsianAmerican, Native American, and Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI)grant in the You First Student Success and Faculty Research Center, the AAPIStudent Success Coach provides a broad range of intentional student andacademic support services including academic support, career exploration,social and personal well-being coaching, and financial counseling to a caseloadof students who participate in theYouFirst at VCU AAPI cohort. This support will work to achieve University goals ofstudent enrollment, success, and retention for these students.
Core Responsibilities: Student Advising and Coaching (33%): Provide academic support, career exploration, social and personal well-being coaching, and financial coaching to program participants.
- Utilize a proactive academic coaching method to meet with participants three times or more per semester to encourage student success and increase student retention and graduation rates.
- Identify options and develop solutions for unique student situations.
- Provide program participants with assistance in career-based planning and development, health and well-being services and resources, and financial literacy and planning resources.
- During the Summer Scholars program and other activities, meet with AAPI cohort participants individually and in small and large groups to provide support, build community, and encourage successful completion of the program.
- Serve as a liaison to campus resources for all program participants.
Programming (25%): Provide relevant programming supporting the grant objectives to eligible participants.
- Promote program benefits and opportunities to potential students and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with university stakeholders in developing, coordinating, and supervising workshops and programs to provide services to program participants.
- Encourage the continued development of social and personal life skills through traditional and non-traditional programming.
- Support various administrative functions related to the program including maintaining and analyzing student data.
- Coordinate a variety of departmental activities, requisition relevant resources, plan and implement special projects.
- During the Summer Scholars program, design and implement programs to support students' sense of belonging, to improve their understanding of college terminology and processes, and to instill the expectation that the cohort will remain engaged beyond the summer program.
- Provide significant administrative contributions to the Summer Scholars program, including recruitment, enrollment, program planning and implementation, and crisis management.
Teaching (7%): Successfully teach UNIV 191 courses for first-year AAPI students during the designated academic term.
- Design and execute course curriculum based on UNIV 191 standards.
- Participate in professional development related to student success course training and curriculum.
- Utilize instructional aides and the university-provided course management system to adequately support and enhance curriculum objectives.
- Additional tasks as identified by the program director.
Supervision (10%): Successfully manages student employees in their work to support the AANAPISI grant initiatives.
- Supervises 6-8 AAPI peer mentors in support of the participants. These peer mentors are compensated with a stipend through
- Beginning Fall 2024 will supervise two Federal Work Study students through the FWS Student Intern program.
Budgeting (5%): Manages student engagement lines in the AANAPISI budget
- Successfully manages several budget lines of the AANAPISI grant, including the Summer Scholars scholarship, the programming supplies, Summer Scholars activities supplies, and the peer mentor stipends, totaling $113,250.
Recruitment and Outreach (7%): Assist in identifying, recruiting, and selecting AAPI students to participate in the AAPI cohort programs.
- Collaborate with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and SEMSS Communications to distribute communications to prospective, accepted, and admitted students.
- Consult and collaborate with university faculty and staff on behalf of AAPI students.
- Coordinate partnerships with campus offices/programs to better serve the AAPI student population.
- In preparation for the Summer Scholars program, assist the program director with the marketing, recruitment, communications, program planning, and onboarding of prospective, accepted, and admitted AAPI cohort students.
AANAPISI Grant Specialist and Reporting (8%):
- Collect data through the year on all tasks: student meetings, program attendance, budgeting, retention, graduation, etc.
- Provide significant participation in the AANAPISI Annual Program Review (APR) process, which includes collecting and analyzing data throughout the year, collaborating with senior staff once the APR application is released, and inputting data and summaries into the application.
- Serve as a VCU grant representative at AANAPISI conferences and provide updates to project staff upon return.
Professional Development (5%): Engage in professional development to enhance job-related skills and remain knowledgeable of best practices and policy regarding higher education, student success, and AAPI initiatives.
- Participate in state, regional, and national professional associations for AAPI college students.
- Remain informed of research and best practices associated with first-generation and low-income student success.
- Remain informed of research and best practices associated with higher education professionals.
- Volunteer on university-wide committee(s) as a representative of the AAPI undergraduate population.
- Additional tasks identified by the program director.
Other Position Details: This is a grant-funded, restrictedposition. Continued employment is dependent upon continued funding.
Qualifications Minimum Hiring Standards: - Master's degree in student personnel services, education, counseling or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Experience working with a program or initiative for underserved and at-risk college students. Relevant experience as a graduate assistant will be considered.
- Knowledge of assessment and data collection, learning styles, and learning assistance strategies, and experience in utilizing a coaching approach to student assistance.
- Ability to effectively maintain a caseload of participants and provide them with documented coaching services and activities.
- Proficient computer skills (Excel spreadsheet, Outlook, Data entry technology, PowerPoint, Word, Internet, and search engines).
- Demonstrated organization, interpersonal, customer service, and time management skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to advocate on the student's behalf with faculty, staff, and parents.
- Ability to foster leadership, study skills, team building exercises, and confidence building.
- Availability to work occasional evenings and weekends.
- Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in providing case management services and advising students on college course selection, financial aid application process, and graduate school exploration and funding.
- Experience with student information systems.
- Experience with providing support for or leading an undergraduate summer bridge or related program.
- Experience working under the Department ofEducation's AANAPISI grant or a similar program
FLSA University Employee
Job FTE 100%
Exemption Status Exempt
Restricted Position Yes
E-Class UF - University Employee FT
Job Category University Employee
ORP Eligible No
Salary Range Up to $52,000
Compensation Type Salaried
Target Hire Date 10/7/2024
Contact Information for Candidates Documents Needed to Apply
Job Tags
Holiday work, Full time, Summer work, Internship, Afternoon shift,