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Coordinator, Adult Career Scholars Program
Job Description
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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:
Reflects the diversity of our community
Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations
Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC
Commitment to Equity and Inclusion
ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.
ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.
Job Posting Title:
Coordinator, Adult Career Scholars ProgramJob Description Summary:
To provide support and service to students. To increase the percentage of CTE concentrators from special populations who receive a recognized postsecondary credential during participation in or within one year of program completion to at least 40%, the average for all CTE concentrators.Job Description:
This is a grant-funded position through May 2023.
Description of Duties and Tasks
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Connects students with resources that support academic success and program completion, including providing up to date information and timely responses.
- Serves as a mentor, advocate and resource to assist students with navigating college processes, including admissions and financial aid.
- Creates and presents information sessions, workshops, and participates in other special events for current and prospective students to the program.
- Provides ongoing student success and career readiness opportunities for current and graduated students.
- Establishes and maintains an active role in the college in order to support current and prospective students.
- Maintains and updates records and files and submits program reports on a regular basis. Works with various partners to ensure comprehensive delivery of services and programming.
- Assists and connects students with information and support to transition to baccalaureate institutions or employment.
Knowledge
Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Best practices for higher education recruitment and case management strategies.
- College recruitment, admissions, procedures, programs, and careers.
- Public relations and customer services principles.
- Student database systems.
- Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Recruit or other contact management systems.
- Multicultural education programs and systems.
Skills
Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Maintaining an established work schedule, which may include evenings and weekends.
- Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including the use of tact and diplomacy.
- Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
- Public speaking skills in preparing and enthusiastically making individual and group presentations.
- Interacting with persons of diverse backgrounds.
- Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
- Able to collaborate with others in a team focused environment.
- Able to quickly establish rapport and engage prospective students.
Technology Skills
- Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
Required Work Experience
- Two years related work experience.
Preferred Work Experience
- Two years experience in higher education or student centered service.
- Experience to include experience with Constitute Relationship Management (CRM) Recruit or similar software.
- Experience with Data Analytics
- Experience with working for Grant Funded project
Required Education
- Bachelor's degree.
Special Requirements
Licenses/Certifications; Other
- Valid Texas driver's license and reliable transportation for local Austin area travel.
Other Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to create comprehensive maintenance and reporting of program data
- Writing communication skills including online and social media formats.
Physical Requirements
- Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
- Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
- Occasional lifting of objects up to 20 pounds.
Salary Range
$49,205 - $61,506
Number of Openings:
1Job Posting Close Date:
January 31, 2023Clery Act
As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.
Disclaimer
The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.
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