9th Grade Scholars Advisor

9th Grade Scholars Advisor

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Direct experience working with high school-age students.
• 2+ years’ public teaching experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working in community outreach, student recruitment, or college admissions.
• Familiarity and/or experience with public education and youth communities in Miami is strongly preferred.
• A background in student coaching and advising, including direct experience interfacing with parents and families.
• Evidence of progressive career growth within roles increasing in responsibility and autonomy.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional public speaking skills and ability to connect with and inspire a variety of audiences including students, parents, educators, and nonprofit leaders.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel and data analysis and reporting skills with an affinity towards data-driven outcomes.
• Working knowledge of standard workplace online applications (MS Office, Google Suite, Box.com) and proficiency in Zoom and intermediate Excel.
• Organizational aptitude to manage complex and competing projects, set and achieve ambitious goals, and communicate progress to various stakeholders.
• Must be available to work a Tuesday through Saturday schedule and some nights as dictated by programming needs.

Responsibilities

• Supports Senior Manager of Student Recruitment and Retention for Miami on executing the admissions strategy and the successful selection of a competitive incoming class.
• Liaise with school and community stakeholders to facilitate recruitment presentations and application workshops and provide individual support to prospective applicants and their families.
• Partner with peers and colleagues throughout the Scholars team to support the admissions strategy and timeline, ensuring timely execution of key milestones, documentation of processes and data, and the successful selection of a competitive incoming 9th grade cohort.
• Develop content, coordinate across teams, and facilitate engaging and informative orientation sessions to ensure successful execution of Orientation for families and students.
• Help facilitate interviews for prospective Scholars, deliberation sessions, and partner with Senior team members to coordinate the selection process.
• Review incoming applications and make recommendations for advancement in the admissions process.
• Successfully onboard incoming Scholars 9th grade classes by establishing a culture of high expectations, providing individualized guidance and support, and implementing quality student advising to meet target retention, attendance, and assignment completion goals during Saturday and weekday programming.
• Works with the Senior Manager of Student Recruitment and Retention to ensure the translation of data from the Recruitment & Admissions cycle is used to strategically advise and support students through their first semester at SEO Scholars Miami.
• Develop and refine advisory content, including whole group, small group, and one-on-one advising content based on feedback from assigned cohort and in collaboration with the larger team.
• Facilitate community day/community time (in-person and online) during the spring semester.
• Create and nurture an environment that encourages intellectual curiosity; an inclusive, close-knit, and supportive community; academic excellence, college readiness, and a college-going culture.
• Foster and maintain relationships with parents, guardians, school partners, volunteers, and community/corporate partners as needed to improve student experience, performance, and retention.
• Monitor the performance and engagement of all Scholars in the assigned cohort; lead Opening Circle (OC) with high-energy execution; track and analyze Scholar attendance, assignment completion, assessments, and grades in SEO Scholars classes, high school courses, and standardized test scores.
• Leverage data to develop proactive academic advising strategies that provide socio-emotional guidance, advising, and support to ensure high scholar persistence and retention for SEO Scholars and continued student academic success at their high school.
• Facilitate weekly instructor check-in meetings to gather information about Scholar performance and advise on action plans to support Scholars.
• Tracks progress and manages qualitative and quantitative data to make evidence-based decisions to improve Scholar performance and engagement, including making recommendations and ensuring that Scholars successfully follow through with additional support and services.
• Collaborates with C&I’s Teaching and Learning team on various academic program elements including, but not limited to, grade audits and scholar attendance.
• Manage/update information in Brightspace including but not limited to updating the calendar, posting flyers for community day and community time, advertising instructor office hours, and using Brightspace assignment completion and attendance data to inform proactive academic advising of Scholars.
• Participates in effective transition meetings with the 10th-grade Scholar Advisor to support a successful transition of Scholars between grade levels including obtaining and uploading student academic data and reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred; all language skills are welcome!
• Salesforce and LMS experience are a plus.