Early High School Student Advising and Program Coordinator

Breakthrough Central Texas • Austin, TX

11d • $56,000 - $74,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Early High School Student Advising & Program Coordinator leads critical advising services and programs for 9th and 10th grade high school students on their path to postsecondary success. The primary responsibility is to provide high quality academic advising and support, career and postsecondary pathway education, and college readiness support to 9th and 10th grade students, ensuring that they are equipped with a variety of postsecondary options before they enter 11th grade. In addition, Early High School advisors design and lead engaging Saturday, Summer and school-based programs to provide learning to students and their families about the path to and through college, and are part of a high-performing team. The role includes the responsibilities of both supervision and team collaboration.

Requirements

• High School Success & College Access Advising: Ensures strong high school course selection and academic progress, meeting testing requirements, and envisioning a career pathway.
• Student Advising & Relationship Building: Provides high-quality advising services to students, with a focus on building authentic relationships and a skill at advocating for the student’s success in school and other settings. Demonstrate advising behaviors that build trust and foster student and family engagement.
• Student Centered Impact Orientation: Supports all students’ growth and postsecondary success by setting and achieving ambitious, measurable goals.
• Youth Development: Meets young people where they are and acts in developmentally appropriate ways to support them at the relevant stage while nurturing a sense of self-efficacy and academic identity development.
• Family Navigation & Caregiver Engagement: Builds trusting relationships and works effectively with caregivers to provide information, guidance and resources so that students stay engaged and thrive.
• Inclusive Communication: Approaches conversations about identity, power and privilege with awareness, humility and a quest for greater understanding. Trailer communication to meet the needs of a variety of audiences including students, families, staff members, school personnel, and individuals who speak a language other than English.
• Resource Connection: Works effectively with the Student and Family Support Specialist to connect students and their families to non-academic providers and resources within the community, including school-based services, mental health services, and others.
• Data Tracking & Evaluation: Submits timely, accurate, comprehensive case notes and other information and tracks/analyzes data with fidelity to drive action that supports student success, informs program design, and ensures meeting team, advising and persistence goals.
• Continuous Learning & Improvement: Embraces and applies feedback, demonstrates curiosity, creativity and growth mindset , and pursues opportunities to strengthen individual performance and team/organizational outcomes.
• Prioritization & Resourcefulness: Effectively puts time and effort where it is needed the most, asks for help, maximizes resources and envisions innovative solutions to reaching outcomes. Prioritizes multiple tasks and delivers commitments in a timely manner, and possesses a disciplined, strong work ethic and comfort with working non-standard hours (some weekends and evenings).

Nice To Haves

• Champion for increasing social and economic opportunity through educational attainment.
• Servant leader, feels at their best in a deep relationship with the communities in which they serve and in collaboration with others they work and partner with.
• Passionate about building authentic relationships with students, family members and caregivers, and the educators at the schools your students attend.
• Content expertise in youth development, college access, and in event or program operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, high quality academic advising and mentoring to a caseload of 45-60 students.
• Develop and maintain relationships with a diverse group of students and their families by adhering to advising standards of service and conducting holistic check ins.
• Support students to develop the academic tools such as study skills, time management, goal setting, and self-advocacy, necessary for high school success.
• In partnership with students and their guardians, develop plans for academic intervention and monitoring for students failing or at risk of failing one more class.
• Meet and communicate regularly with guardians/families on student progress.
• Support students to take academic and non-academic steps necessary to be prepared for postsecondary pathways, including high school course selection, information about GPA, college readiness and prep, career explorations, college majors and all postsecondary pathways.
• Along with the College Bound team, plan and lead Saturday events and programs for 9th and 10th grade students and their families.
• Design, plan and lead campus-based programming during or after school to promote school success and foster a college-going culture.
• Design, plan and facilitate summer programming for rising 10th and rising 11th grade students in Austin, Del Valle, and Manor.
• Support program evaluation efforts and make continuous program improvements to achieve outcomes.
• Participate in committees and workgroups to engage in team planning, organizational change work, as needed.
• Manage large groups of students to build a positive learning community aligned with Breakthrough’s core values and college-going culture.
• Supervise, support, develop and evaluate an AmeriCorps member to ensure highest performance and optimal student outcomes.
• Manage and support volunteers assigned to students or events.
• Strategically develop relationships with key partners, including teachers, school administrators, district leaders, counselors, and leaders of other community-based organizations on campus.
• Meet regularly and work collaboratively with other staff members and volunteers in order to support students and families.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance(Breakthrough pays 100% of employee premiums)
• Life insurance
• Matching 401K retirement plan
• Thirty days of PTO annually, with immediate accrual, recognizing that staff have lives outside of work
• Additional leave benefits, including company holidays and FMLA eligibility (varies by year)

What This Job Offers

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