Life Coach- Excel Center Clarksville
About The Position
The Educational Life Coach promotes continued student engagement at the Excel Center and serves as a student advocate. The Coach guides student learning and productivity by building relationships with students and providing resources to remove barriers to educational progress. Coaches manage their caseloads and core duties while responding to student crises as they arise. The position works with academic teams and the College and Career Readiness Specialist to meet educational goals and comply with applicable state, territory, and local academic standards and regulatory requirements. The role includes assessing and adjusting students’ academic, personal, and employability goals; connecting students with community resources and postsecondary opportunities; using student and school data to guide interventions and improvement; contributing to school-wide outcomes; and supporting recruitment, enrollment, and outreach. The position is located in southern Indiana and requires travel to participants’ homes, workplaces, community centers, and other venues at times convenient to those being served.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, human relations, social work, rehabilitation counseling, education, or a related field.
- Effective oral, written, visual, non-verbal, and digital communication skills, including listening to understand others’ needs.
- Ability to schedule, coordinate, and manage productive meetings; manage conflict and commitments professionally; and ensure participant follow-through.
- Ability to build student relationships using a strengths-based, student-centered approach while maintaining appropriate boundaries, providing constructive and unbiased feedback, and creating a safe environment for open discussions.
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
- Working knowledge of G Suite, MS Office, and student information systems.
- Ability to adapt to shifts in priorities while maintaining a positive learning environment.
- Ability to evaluate information from different sources, draw conclusions, select effective courses of action, and make decisions consistent with available facts and constraints.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, timely completion of multiple tasks, and follow-through.
- Must pass a pre-employment background check.
- Must have a valid driver’s license, current auto insurance, and a good driving record.
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of applicable state, territory, and local academic standards, college and career readiness frameworks, and 21st-century skills.
- Experience providing academic, career, college or certification access, and social-emotional mentoring, counseling, or advising, ideally to high school-age students in a nontraditional or adult education setting.
- Established professional network of community resources, health care providers, employers, and other relevant contacts.
Responsibilities
- Assess student performance, availability, and life challenges, and modify academic, personal, and employability goals to help students reach their potential.
- Partner with students and staff to identify action steps that reduce academic barriers.
- Build and maintain networks with community partners, including Goodwill staff, community agencies, educational institutions, financial liaisons, and employers, to connect students with wraparound services.
- Work with the College and Career Readiness Specialist to connect students to postsecondary opportunities.
- Identify and track relevant student and school data to establish improvement or achievement goals and inform evaluation and feedback.
- Evaluate data to inform decisions, drive outcomes, and develop student interventions.
- Develop professional and performance goals and action plans, reflect on prior goals, and adjust professional practice as needed.
- Contribute to school-wide goals related to graduation outcomes, enrollment, student achievement, and retention.
- Set and maintain a high-performance culture for staff and students.
- Participate in student recruitment, enrollment, and outreach efforts.
- Travel to participants’ homes, workplaces, community centers, and other venues at times convenient to the individuals served.
Benefits
- Continuing education and leadership development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive health plan
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Paid holidays
- Life insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short- and long-term disability plans
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Preventive health and wellness program
- Section 125 pretax health spending account, dependent care spending account, and premiums
- Retirement plan with generous match or contribution into the Teachers’ Retirement Fund for eligible employees
- Eligibility for the Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program
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Job Type
Full-time
