Academic Success Coach at the Academic Success Center (Part Time)

About the Role

The Academic Success Coach position at Jefferson University – East Falls Campus is a part-time, 18-hour per week position. This position is key to the Academic Success Center's learning support team, working individually with Undergraduate, Graduate, and Adult and Online Learners. In addition to individual student sessions, this Coach position requires some program development and implementation, based on student needs and faculty requests. This Academic Success Coach serves as a professional learning support specialist, maintaining regular weekly coaching hours during the fall and spring semesters while providing individual coaching, facilitating workshops, and contributing to student success initiatives. Applicants should have coaching or college-level teaching or coaching experience and/or extensive knowledge of time management and active study strategies to support the programs and courses taught at Jefferson University – East Falls Campus.

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Coach students one-on-one and deliver workshops on academic success skills and habits. Workshops may include building calendars, metacognitive habits, active study strategies, and facilitating supported study spaces during assessment periods (Midterm and Final Exams).
• Collaborate extensively with the Academic Success Center's full-time staff in program development and outreach across different student populations, including first-year undergraduate students on academic probation and new or advanced graduate students in the didactic phase or clinical rotations, etc.
• Work as a collaborative member of the Academic Success Center team on specific student retention and success initiatives, such as first-gen and neurodiverse students programming.
• Administrative functions include collaboration on updating learning-support materials and coordinating learning-support-related events under the direction of the Academic Success team.
• Log hours in a payroll system (My Time) and use an online tutoring scheduling/early alert system (Starfish) to track appointments, record tutoring outcome notes, and outreach to students identified as needing strategic academic intervention.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required)

• Ability to work effectively with diverse undergraduate, graduate, adult, and online student populations.
• Knowledge of evidence-based learning strategies, metacognition, time management, and study skills.
• Ability to collaborate with faculty, staff, and campus partners, using strong organizational, planning, rapport-building, and program development skills.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Education, Higher Education, or a related field, plus relevant professional coaching or student success credentials; OR Master's degree in Higher Education, Education, or a closely related field.
• Experience: Two (2) years of experience providing academic coaching, advising, tutoring, teaching, or student success support in an educational setting preferred.

Certifications, Registration, or License Requirements

• Certified Academic Coach or equivalent coaching certification required for Bachelor's level applicants, preferred with Master's.
• Certified Tutor or CRLA-related training preferred.
• Professional memberships related to academic coaching, student success, higher education, or advising preferred.

Additional Information

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Starfish, Canvas/other learning management or student success systems preferred.
• Availability to work occasional evening or weekend hours.
• Hybrid position requires at least one day per week in person.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Temporary Employee

Entity

Philadelphia University

Primary Location Address

3101 School House Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.