Assistant Director of Academic Coaching – Haslam College of Business / Academic Success Center - UTK

University of Tennessee • Knoxville, TN

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About The Position

The Assistant Director of Haslam Academic Coaching provides strategic leadership
for the coordination and delivery of academic coaching services serving students
in the Haslam College of Business, while operating centrally within the Academic
Success Center. In partnership with the Academic Success Center Director and the
Associate Director of Academic Coaching, this role ensures alignment between
coaching strategy, college priorities, and institutional retention and
persistence goals.

Serving as a liaison between the Academic Success Center and the Haslam College
of Business, the Assistant Director advances high-quality, consistent coaching
practices that support student transition, engagement, and academic success.
This position supervises a team of professional academic coaches, oversees
performance management and professional development, and contributes to
division-wide planning, training, outreach, and assessment efforts. As a member
of the ASC leadership team, the Assistant Director plays a key role in shaping
the strategic direction and operational effectiveness of academic coaching
services.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has shaped leaders, changemakers, and
innovative thinkers since its founding in 1794. The university is home to more
than 38,000 students and 10,000 statewide employees—the Volunteers—who uphold
the university’s tradition of lighting the way for others through leadership and
service.

UT Knoxville offers over 900 programs of study across 14 degree-granting
colleges and schools. As Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, its
footprint spans the entire state. The university holds the highest Carnegie
classification for research activity and has deep partnerships with industry
leaders and the US Department of Energy’s largest multidisciplinary laboratory,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership for the coordination and delivery of academic coaching services
• Ensures alignment between coaching strategy, college priorities, and institutional retention and persistence goals
• Advances high-quality, consistent coaching practices that support student transition, engagement, and academic success
• Supervises a team of professional academic coaches
• Oversees performance management and professional development
• Contributes to division-wide planning, training, outreach, and assessment efforts
• Plays a key role in shaping the strategic direction and operational effectiveness of academic coaching services

Benefits

• Employees have access to career development and coaching, continued education, and an extensive list of development and training possibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed