Academic Success Coordinator - Success Center
Essential Functions:
The position's focus is to provide students with holistic support throughout their time at Curry and plays a crucial role in fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive environment for students. A successful candidate is passionate about student development, has a strong commitment to academic excellence, and possesses the ability to build trusting relationships with students, faculty, and staff. They should be proactive, empathetic, and skilled in managing multiple tasks simultaneously. They should have an ability to bring complex situations to closure with strong professional judgment, a student-focused orientation, and expertise in documenting outcomes with clear written follow-up.
1. Student Support Services:
- Advise and/or provide academic support for specialized populations assigned by your supervisor, such as upperclass students, student athletes, transfer students, continuing education students;
- Develop and implement programming that fosters engagement, retention, and success for all students;
- Collaborate with campus partners, such as Athletics, PAL, and SAIL, for academic programming and support;
- Communicate directly with students to positively impact timely graduation in partnership with the Registrar's Office;
- Monitor and respond to the Academic Success email account and Curry's centralized web-based Academic Alert system as a means of coordinating early interventions with students;
- Meet with students on matters of academic integrity, grade appeal, and academic petitions;
- Meet with students on academic notice, to develop, monitor, and evaluate students' educational plans in accordance with Satisfactory Academic Progress guidelines;
- Respond to academic concerns about students within FERPA guidelines; meet with families, faculty, and students to resolve issues, and respond to concerns about college policies, procedures, and processes;
- Escalate high need students to the Associate Director/Director, and/or CARES for further follow-up as needed.
2. Retention & Student Success Program Planning:
- Under the Direction of the Associate Director of Advising & Academic Success, develop, execute, and evaluate activities to support at-risk students including workshops, print and web materials, and peer support;
- Engage in continuous efforts to improve students' experience, to identify needs for additional resources or interventions, and to work with others to assess the effectiveness of student success efforts;
- Engage in networking across the institution to ensure students connect with appropriate resources to support their success;
- Assist with pre-registration of new students and work with colleagues in the Office of Advising & Academic Success to provide comprehensive student orientation programs that introduce new students to academic support resources and advising;
- Work collaboratively with colleagues in the Office of Advising & Academic Success and on the Academic Services Team through cross-training, information sharing, and planning.
Additional Functions:
- Participate in and support student programming efforts;
- Respect and maintain confidentiality, parameters of operation, professional protocols, and individual privacy;
- Perform other duties as requested or directed by supervisor or their designee.
Job Requirements:
Essential Characteristics:
- Successful performance in this position demands consistent demonstration of the following uncompromised performance characteristics:
- Exhibits a high degree of initiative for bringing tasks to successful completion and succeeding in achieving stated goals.
- Expresses oneself clearly, purposefully and effectively both written and verbal context. Possesses excellent organizational and time management skills to achieve optimal results.
- Demonstrate positive attitudes and positive actions through a display of courtesy, congeniality, cooperation, sensitivity and professionalism to deal with a variety of individuals.
- Ability to function independently, with a high attention to detail, work under pressure, and prioritize multiple projects.
- Meets departmental and college-wide deadlines while delivering a quality work product
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Higher Education Administration, Counseling Psychology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in advising, academic coaching, or a related area within higher education.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication, and organizational skills.
- Experience developing and implementing student programs that promote engagement and success.
- Ability to collaborate with various campus offices, faculty, and external partners to support student needs.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, student management systems, and digital tools for program coordination.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with transfer students, continuing education students, or student athletes.
- Familiarity with best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion as they pertain to student support.
Salary Range:
$55,000 to $60,000 annually
Additional Information:
Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, Curry College will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.
At the College's discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be excepted where the candidate can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the College, an equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position.
Employment in this position is contingent upon the successful completion of all required pre-employment background checks.
Title IX Notice of Nondiscrimination
Curry College (the "College") does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that we administer, as required by Title IX and its federal regulations, including in admission and employment.
The Non-Discrimination Policy can be found at
https://www.curry.edu/assets/Documents/About-Us/Curry-College-Nondiscrimination-Policy.pdf
The Sexual Misconduct Policy can be found at
https://www.curry.edu/assets/Documents/About-Us/Curry-College-Sexual-Misconduct-Policy.pdf
Individuals who wish to make a complaint of discrimination or sex discrimination under Title IX, or those with information about conduct that may constitute discrimination or sex discrimination under Title IX may contact the Director of Title IX and Equity Compliance, the Office for Civil Rights, or both.
Inquiries about the application of Title IX and its federal regulations to the College may be referred to either or both offices listed below:
Ann Coyne, Director of Title IX and Equity Compliance: Office 122, King Academic Administrative Building, 55 Atherton Street Milton, MA 02186. (617) 333-2212, ann.coyne@curry.edu.
Office of Civil Rights ("OCR"): Boston Office, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 9th Floor, 5 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109-3921, Telephone: 617-289-0111, FAX: 617-289-0150; TDD: 800-877-8339, Email: OCR.Boston@ed.gov.
To apply, visit http://curry.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=187827
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Curry College
May 06, 2025