Scholastic Performance Specialist I

**Job Title**Scholastic Performance Specialist I**Agency**Texas A&M University at Galveston**Department**10120912 Center for Academic Learning Support (Krista McBrien)**Proposed Minimum Salary**$3,750.00 monthly**Job Location**Galveston, Texas**Job Type**Staff**Job Description****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. Theposition advances student retention through individualized support, targeted programming, andcollaboration 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* 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.**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**We are the ocean campus of Texas A&M University at Galveston. Our employees come from throughout the world, with many different perspectives, talents, lived experiences, and interests. Aggies by the Sea promote a welcoming and highly productive work environment. We support the university’s goals to recruit and retain a quality workforce and encourage life-long learning practices.

We will do our part to assist you in your new position and encourage you to take advantage of training and development opportunities that are available to help you be successful.**Instructions to Applicants:** *Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.*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.The Texas A&M University System is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation, with a statewide network of twelve universities, eight state agencies, a comprehensive health science center, Texas A&M-Fort Worth and Texas A&M-RELLIS.The A&M System is committed to providing an educational and work environment that is conducive to the personal and professional development of each employee.Each member institution provides equal opportunity and access to all students, employees and prospective employees. #J-18808-Ljbffr