What are the responsibilities and job description for the Coordinator, Post-Traditional and Student Parent Success position at Berea College?
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Description
The Coordinator serves as the primary architect of success for post-traditional students (aged 25 ), student parents, and married/partnered students.This position will maximize cross-departmental collaboration by focusing on increasing retention, persistence, and degree completion. Through a combination of academic advising,coaching, mentorship, and resource navigation, the Coordinator ensures that life circumstances do not become barriers to graduation. This role serves as a bridge between the student and essential services (campus, local, state, and federal) and builds vibrant peer-to-peer communities that foster a sense of belonging and care.
Your Key Responsibilities
Education required to ensure success in this position:
Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.
Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.
Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!
Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Our Benefits
Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.
Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.
To learn more details, visit our benefits page at https://www.berea.edu/human-resources/employee-benefits.
Our Unique Culture
Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.
Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea
Labor Supervision
In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.
Description
The Coordinator serves as the primary architect of success for post-traditional students (aged 25 ), student parents, and married/partnered students.This position will maximize cross-departmental collaboration by focusing on increasing retention, persistence, and degree completion. Through a combination of academic advising,coaching, mentorship, and resource navigation, the Coordinator ensures that life circumstances do not become barriers to graduation. This role serves as a bridge between the student and essential services (campus, local, state, and federal) and builds vibrant peer-to-peer communities that foster a sense of belonging and care.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute evidence-based initiatives specifically designed to increase the completion rates of post-traditional and student parent populations, monitoring progress through data-driven success markers.
- Provide high-touch academic advising, career coaching, and mentorship to help students navigate the complexities of balancing rigorous academics with professional and family life.
- Facilitate the creation of "affinity communities" where post-traditional students and parents can engage in peer-to-peer support, social connection, and collective care.
- Serve as the campus expert on "wraparound services,”assisting students in accessing local, state, and federal support systems, including SNAP, childcare, and other critical community-based resources.
- Collaborate with Residential Education to support the success of families living in the EcoVillage, serving as a liaison for student-centered programming.
- Maintain a high-visibility presence on campus, partnering regularly with Campus Life, the Black Cultural Center, Espacio Cultural Latinx, and Counseling Services to ensure inclusive programming and advocacy.
- Hire, train, and mentor student labor positions,upholding the "Fourth Great Commitment" to develop students’ professional acumen and administrative skills through the lens of student advocacy.
- Serve as a vocal advocate on institutional committees to ensure campus policies, scheduling, and physical spaces are accessible and welcoming to students with diverse life commitments.
- Proactively research, author, and secure external grant opportunities and alternative funding streams to expand program capacity, enhance specialized student services, and ensure the long-term sustainability of success initiatives for post-traditional and student-parent populations.
- In support of Berea College’s great commitments this position requires student supervision.? The fourth great commitment is to promote learning and serving in the community through the student labor program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. The Supervision would include scheduling, assigning and approving work performed.? Developing students about common workplace acumen and giving them tangible work experience is an expected outcome.?To learn more about the student labor program and requirements on this position see: Labor Program Goals
Education required to ensure success in this position:
- Bachelor’s degree in Student Affairs, Higher Education, Counseling, Social Work, or a related field.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- 1-2years of experience in student success, academic advising, counseling, or case management.
- Demonstrated experience working with adult learners, student parents, or veterans in and advocacy capacity.
- Proven ability to work effectively across college departments.
- Established problem solving and conflict resolution experience.
- Exceptional team leadership and supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated adaptability to continual change and growth.
Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.
Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.
Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!
Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
Our Benefits
Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.
Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.
To learn more details, visit our benefits page at https://www.berea.edu/human-resources/employee-benefits.
Our Unique Culture
Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.
Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea
Labor Supervision
In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.