Learning Specialist - Joplin

Kansas City University•Joplin, MO

10d

About The Position

The Learning Specialist assists with the University’s learning enhancement program and serves as a learning support resource for students and faculty across KCU colleges and programs. The role helps ensure effective delivery of student learning services and works collaboratively under the direction of the Director of Learning Enhancement to make learning support integrated, responsive, and equitably available to students across the University. The position provides individual and group learning support, develops and facilitates learning-focused workshops and resources, and partners with academic programs to tailor learning enhancement strategies to curricular milestones and assessment models. The Learning Specialist uses evidence-informed learning and coaching practices, student performance information, reflection, and other available data to guide support and evaluate student progress. The role also maintains accurate student records and contributes to the Learning Enhancement team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in counseling, education, or a related discipline.
Five years of experience working with students in graduate, professional, health professions, or other academically rigorous educational environments.
Experience supporting learners across multiple academic disciplines or professional programs.
Knowledge of assessment, academic-performance data, learning analytics, or early-alert/student-success systems.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Experience developing educational resources, workshops, curricula, or scalable student-learning interventions.
Familiarity with the academic demands and learning environments associated with health profession education and/or graduate programs.

Responsibilities

Engage students individually and through group learning activities, providing evidence-based strategies related to learning processes, knowledge acquisition, retention, retrieval, application, and self-regulated learning.
Apply evidence-informed principles of learning, cognition, memory, metacognition, knowledge acquisition, retrieval, and self-regulated learning when supporting students.
Work across disciplines and unfamiliar subject matter by leveraging expertise in learning frameworks, inquiry skills, and collaborative problem-solving, and build partnerships that bridge technical domains.
Partner with academic programs to understand curricular milestones and assessment models and deliver targeted learning enhancement strategies that complement faculty instruction.
Build productive, student-centered relationships through effective communication, appropriate expectations and boundaries, and collaboration with students, faculty, academic leaders, student-affairs colleagues, and other University partners.
Help students identify learning patterns and performance barriers and develop strategies that promote understanding, retention, retrieval, application, and transfer of knowledge.
Use academic coaching techniques, including questioning, reflection, goal setting, feedback, and accountability, to foster student independence, self-awareness, and ownership of learning.
Provide proactive and responsive support to students seeking to optimize learning and students experiencing academic difficulty.
Use student performance information, reflection, and other available data to guide conversations, interventions, goal setting, and follow-up.
Evaluate learning strategies and interventions using student performance information, reflection, feedback, and other available data, adjusting approaches as needed.
Develop and facilitate learning-focused workshops, resources, and programming for diverse student populations and academic programs.
Maintain current knowledge of evidence-based practices in learning science, academic coaching, student success, and emerging approaches to learner support.
Maintain student records in compliance with FERPA and document sessions, meetings, and other communications as appropriate.
Contribute as an active member and collaborator of the Learning Enhancement team.