Peer Mentoring & Summer Bridge Coordinator

Job Description

Job Summary:
The goals of the Eagle Achievement Center are to promote
student academic success, increase retention, and provide services to empower student development. The Peer Mentoring & Summer Bridge
Coordinator works to support summer bridge experiences and the peer mentoring components of the Eagle Achievement Center. This includes
curriculum development, planning, supervision to peer leaders, and evaluation. They maintain close, collaborative relationships with offices
across campus and track student success and follow-up.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assist in the
  planning, execution, and evaluation of the peer mentoring programs and summer bridge programs.
• Hire peer leaders for summer bridge
  program and peer support programs.
• Conduct peer mentor and other peer leader trainings.
• Supervise peer support
  leaders.
• Facilitate academic student workshops that include support for content review, study strategies, time management, academic
  self-advocacy, test-taking skills, critical reasoning, problem solving, and coping skills development.
• Coordinate program logistics
  and assist in data analysis of program outcomes.
• Facilitate student engagement by recommending resources, conducting referrals, and
  supporting overall services of the Eagle Achievement Center.
• Conduct outreach and manage situations for students identified through
  the peer programs and summer bridge in need of additional support beyond peer leaders.
• Triage student issues and share patterns and
  barriers in services on campus with leadership.
• Assess and develop appropriate remedies to assist students with their academic,
  career, personal, and social needs to help them persist to graduation.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of resources, services, and
  events at Coppin to appropriately refer students.
• Recommend and assist in developing workshops to address gaps in resources and
  information to students.
• Assist in orientation presentations and academic student workshops that include support for study
  strategies, time management, academic self-advocacy, test-taking skills, critical reasoning, problem solving, and coping skills
  development.
• Keep abreast of the legal guidelines regarding academic advising and registration including those regulating
  confidentiality and privacy such as FERPA, HIPAA, etc.
• Facilitate high quality engagement that promotes academic success and student
  satisfaction for all undergraduate students, especially high performing students.
• Participate in Eagle Achievement Center sponsored
  programs and events.
• Assist in execution of policies, procedures, reporting, and assessment of assigned retention
  initiative.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required
Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in school Counseling, Psychology, Education,
  Social Work, Higher Education Administration or a closely related field.
• Master’s degree
  preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in academic advising or
  professional experience in higher education environment in student support services.
• Experience in providing academic advising and
  support for traditional and non-traditional students, and experience working with exploratory/undecided
  students.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics:

• Student centered,
  self-starter with working knowledge of academic support, helping skills, and coaching theories and practices.
• Strong critical
  thinking, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as a team member independently while developing strong
  collaborative relationships with colleagues, students, student services, and academic service units.
• Ability to exercise excellent
  professional judgement and discretion, making decisions on a regular basis that impact student welfare and success.
• Ability to work
  with students of diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision to meet deadlines, manage multiple tasks, and
  prioritize duties.
• Knowledge of student development and resources to promote student success.
• Ability to maintain highly
  confidential information.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite programs.

Physical Demands of
Position:

• Occasional evening and weekend retention activities required.
• Occasional travel required for
  retention initiatives and professional development.
• Ability to lift and carry small parcels, packages, and other items as needed to
  outreach to students and retention programs and events.

Conditions of Employment

This is a temporary
position. The initial contract is for 6-12 months with the possibility of renewal. 

This is an on-site
position.

Posting Number: ST2023-0046

Close Date: 07/11/2023

Open Until
Filled: No