ACES Student Success Coordinator

About the role

The ACES Student Success Coordinator will provide a broad range of services supporting high school juniors and seniors and work as part of a team that seeks to create a seamless pathway for students from high school to college completion. The program focuses on identifying and supporting students that are underrepresented in higher education and those that are the first in their family to attend college.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement program policies, programs and curriculum that promotes the educational development and ultimate graduation of each ACES student from Montgomery County high school and gain admission to college.
• Serve as a Montgomery College ACES program coordinator for the MCPS high school they are placed in to coordinate the delivery of college readiness activities.
• Work with MCPS counselors and faculty to identify and coordinate recruitment efforts for students in the target population in order to provide a broad range of support to students who have been identified as at-risk of not attending or completing college.
• Assist with college applications, financial aid/scholarships, college and career research, college visits, referrals to academic support services, and preparation resources to take college placement tests.
• Deliver workshops, programming, and services related to the work activities listed above.
• Coordinate with the high school staff and Montgomery College staff on logistics such as securing office and classroom space, reserving computer labs and other auxiliary spaces, scheduling field trips, and determine ways of establishing and maintaining effective communication with students, parents, high school staff and counselors, and community entities.
• Provide one-on-one case management and facilitate group meetings with program participants to identify barriers to determine and implement an individual success plan for each ACES student.
• Coordinate visits to colleges, especially Montgomery College and Universities at Shady Grove.
• Use the ACES database and other tools to track all program activities and student progress, as well as contribute to the evaluation practices at both high school and program level.

Requirements

• Master's degree with a minimum of 3 years case management experience: working with at-risk populations in a high school, community college or community-based program, assisting students with college preparation and access; working with college admissions, financial aid, and scholarship processes; academic coaching, personal counseling, classroom teaching, or referral to social service agencies
• OR Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years case management experience: working with at-risk populations in a high school, community college or community-based program, assisting students with college preparation and access; working with college admissions, financial aid, and scholarship processes; academic coaching, personal counseling, classroom teaching, or referral to social service agencies.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of college admissions, financial aid and scholarship processes;
• Knowledge of career decision-making and career assessments;
• Skills in verbal and written communications, interpersonal relations, computer technologies (i.e., word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation programs), leadership and organization;
• Ability to use a wide range of communication techniques depending upon specific educational or personnel challenges;
• To work cooperatively with others;
• To speak to small and large groups.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in foreign language preferred.