Learning Specialist Jobs

About The Position

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.
• Physical dexterity to use hands, arms, and shoulders repetitively to operate a keyboard and other office equipment, use a telephone, and access file cabinets and items stored at various levels, including overhead.
• Ability to speak and hear well enough to communicate clearly and understandably at normal conversational distance, over the telephone, and in group settings.
• Ability to operate a personal computer continuously for extended periods of four or more hours.
• Mental acuity to collect and interpret data, evaluate, reason, define problems, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make valid judgments and decisions.

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 applying learning frameworks, inquiry skills, collaborative problem-solving, and 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 for understanding, retention, retrieval, application, and transfer of knowledge.
• Use academic coaching techniques, including questioning, reflection, goal setting, feedback, and accountability, to promote 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, and adjust approaches as needed.
• Develop and facilitate learning-focused workshops, resources, and programming applicable across student populations and academic programs.
• Maintain current knowledge of evidence-based practices in learning science, academic coaching, student success, and emerging learner-support approaches.
• Maintain student records in compliance with FERPA and accurately document sessions, meetings, and other communications as appropriate.
• Contribute as an active member of and collaborator for the Learning Enhancement team.