Student Services Coach

The Academic Coach serves as the primary contact for students from participation in first courses through completion of the degree program. The Academic Coach manages a pipeline of students by coaching, motivating, mentoring, removing barriers, issue ownership through resolutions, strategies for completion, and progress. They help students clarify key decision points and identify solutions and alternatives which align with the learner's motivation and goals. Utilizing strong relationship building and influencing skills resulting in positive student behaviors and outcomes, contributing to overall student success and persistence. The coach is responsible for providing personalized interactions to assist students in successfully navigating the path to achieve educational goals. The academic coach will provide outreach at key milestones and based on identified behaviors throughout students program to help keep them on track and to assist with overcoming obstacles that are encountered, by offering personalized solutions to help prepare them for long-term success. The academic coach also partners with faculty and other university staff to address student concerns and collaboratively define available options to help students overcome obstacles and achieve academic success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Academic Planning & Engagement.

• Assist students in developing an academic plan that includes all program requirements to enable the most direct path to completion and align with their educational and career goals.

• Leverage tools, systems, and software applications to optimize advising engagement.

• Build a relationship with the student to encourage student success and engagement.

• Utilize program analytics and outreach protocols to drive purpose-driven and transformational conversations.

• Help students navigate changes in their programs and plans and understand and respond to Strayer-initiated changes.

• Explore alignment of students educational and financial plans in relation to degree completion.

• Provide resources and refer students to university support services.

• Assess student needs to help them make fully informed decisions about their pathways as well as challenging them to make progress toward their goals.

• Progress monitoring and academic risk mitigation.

• Proactively reach out to students identified as at-risk, including but not limited to, lack of engagement, academic standing, the pace of progress, course completion, gaps in competency development.

• Provide students with exceptional customer service.

• Highlight and address potential barriers that may impact persistence, success, and completion.

• Encourage students to develop skills and abilities indirect resolution of challenges and issues, coordinate with faculty, academic leadership, and student facing teams to seek resolution of student issues.

• Coach students through disruptive life events.

• Respond to the student via a wide variety of communication tools and systems including, but not limited to phone, voicemail, chat, email, casework, and social media.

• Collaborate with faculty and other university leaders handling escalated student situations and supporting conflict resolution.

• Communication and interaction.

• Maintain appropriate and accurate documentation of all student interactions in accordance with departmental best practices.

• Program, process, and policy subject matter expertise.

• Serves and Strayer Universities subject matter experts concerning programs, processes, and policies in meetings, committees, and informal sessions.

• Monitor and communicate trends impacting student persistence, success, and completion, discuss obstacles and challenges to the student.

• Build trusted professional relationships across the business.

• Participate in projects or initiatives that support departmental goals.

• Support and participate in departmental and cross-functional training.

• Research and stay abreast of issues and trends in other institutions of higher education.

• Any other duties as assigned based on the needs of the business.

Job Skills:

• Ability to drive results in a team-based environment.

• Ability to understand key metrics and utilize self-service reporting and tools to monitor and share data.

• Ability to influence positive student behaviors and outcomes.

• Thinking and judgment.

• Fundamental understanding of business acumen to successfully balance student and university needs.

• Ability