Scholastic Performance Specialist I

Agency

Department

A Glimpse of the Job

The Scholastic Performance Specialist I provides academic coaching and guidance to students,

with an emphasis on early interventions and other identified at-risk student populations. The

position advances student retention through individualized support, targeted programming, and

collaboration with campus partners.

Essential Duties/Tasks:

Coaching

• Maintains a caseload of students including records.

• Collaborates with students to understand and develop realistic and attainable education/academic goals

• Provides scholastic direction and advise to students both individually and in groups. May refer students as needed.

• Fosters retention of identified groups of students through coaching, mentoring, monitoring of student grades, and other support activities.

• Communicate with students about academic concerns educating them about academic processes.

Student Success and Retention

• Coordinates outreach and support programming related to academic

• coaching, early warning programs, and at risk student populations.

• Consistently engages the student population utilizing various outreach methods (e.g., in-person and online) to cultivate a professional relationship to keep students informed of critical and relevant personal, academic and professional deadlines, updates, and events.

• Oversees the planning and/or delivery of various department related academic coaching, student success, retention events and academic support campaigns (e.g., New Student Conference, HU - 1st year success course, Pathways learning community, etc.)

• Assists the development of academic coaching projects and their implementation to achieve specific objectives and outcomes.

• Assists in interpreting data and preparing reports as requested.

• Assist in coordinating the Navigate system for campus support such as messaging, early alerts, progress reports, case management, etc.

Collaboration

• Assists in responding to inquiries from students and refers to appropriate university and college resources/polices.

• Interacts with campus offices regarding scholastic progress of students related to early warning systems and/or general academic progress.

Team Administration, Supervision, and Other

• May supervise student employees to assist with programming.

• Administrative duties as supervisor for student employees including interviewing, hiring, scheduling, etc.

• Performs other duties as assigned to support the mission of the department.

What you need to know

Salary: $45,000 annually

Special Instructions: A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended. You may upload these in the CV/Resume section.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.

• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.

• Verbal and written communication skills.

• Knowledge of higher education.

• Experience working with college students.

• Preferred experience working with peer mentors/coaches.

• Preferred knowledge of EAB (Navigate) systems.

Other Requirements and Factors

• This position is security sensitive

• This position requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M

• University System/TAMU policies, regulations, rules and procedures

• All tasks and job responsibilities must be performed safely without injury to self or others in compliance with System and University safety requirements

Who we are

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.