Graduation Coach

Primary Responsibilities

• Tracks and predicts the school’s on-time graduation rate.
• Tracks all progress of potential on-cohort graduates.
• Creates an individual graduation plan for each potential on-cohort graduate.
• Creates a database of all students in the current year’s graduation cohort.
• Makes sure to monitor and review all graduation components weekly.
• Mets with each potential on-cohort graduate weekly at minimum to review graduation plan and progress.
• Makes sure to monitor credit recovery, credit earning and participation/attendance rates.
• Maximizes the use of SAT, ACT and PERT test waivers and participation.
• Distributes and tracks all state testing to include FSA/EOC/SAT/ACT/PERT Assessments for all potential on-cohort students.
• Collaborates with career coach/counselor, service providers among others to ensure necessary supports and services are provided when needed to improve graduation rates for potential on-cohort graduates.
• Maintains progress monitoring reports, attendance and behavioral records, academic grades, and other student records for all potential on-cohort graduates.
• Uses district and organizational reports to identify potential on-cohort graduates and withdrawn potential on-cohort graduates.
• Tracks all of the school’s potential on-cohort students who have been withdrawn to ensure accurate withdraw codes.
• Regularly reaches out to withdrawn potential on-cohort students to assist them in re-engaging in school.
• Conducts quarterly vertical team meetings with traditional high school’s faculty and staff to develop action steps to improve individual student and subgroup transition success rate.
• Provides and/or submits reports to the Strategy Management Team on the graduation status of on cohort students.

Job Requirements and Prerequisites

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or related field from an accredited college or university is required.
• Previous experience as a high school teacher.
• Previous experience in high school guidance is strongly preferred.
• Previous experience and/or the ability to work with overage and at-risk youth is preferred.
• Knowledge of the principles of secondary education.
• Knowledge of curriculum and instructional theory.
• Knowledge of principles of adolescent growth and development.
• Knowledge of post-high school planning and employment trends.
• Ability to analyze and use data to drive program improvement.
• Effective communication skills both orally and in writing.