Student Success Coach- College Prep

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Part Time San Francisco, CA, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $25.00 To $30.00 Hourly

Student Success Coach-100% College Prep Institute

About Young Community Developers

Established in 1973, YCD is a nonprofit organization that serves residents of all ages living in the most historically underserved communities of San Francisco. YCD takes a holistic approach via a delivery eco-system of services designed to empower residents in achieving economic mobility, in turn building and sustaining a positive community by providing them with education opportunities, workforce development training, and social services.

YCD’s philosophy is that every individual should have the right to sustainable and generational economic mobility, aiming to break the cycle of poverty. Each year YCD provides around 1,200 community members with employment and training services through their programs and partnerships. YCD is also proud to share that they have been voted by Non‑Profit Times as one of the top 50 best non‑profits to work for in the United States!

Project Overview

100% College Prep Institute (100%) is a college preparatory organization for middle school, high school, and college youth. 100% seeks to provide underserved students with academic and leadership skills. Also with support that prepares them to enter and complete post‑secondary educational opportunities. We employ a holistic approach that teams our staff with students, teachers, counselors, and parents in order to set and achieve academic goals, and a plan for college.

The role of the Student Success Coach includes developing and maintaining a positive and mutually respectful relationship with students. As the main point of contact for an assigned group of students, the Student Success Coach will focus on guiding each student toward achieving academic success. The Student Success Coach facilitates weekly sessions that focus on character building, culture/history, and manhood/sisterhood. This position also provides academic coaching to students one on one and in small groups.

In this learning process, it is important to encourage the student to become more self‑aware by understanding their strengths, values, interests, purpose, and passion. This process should also focus on the student developing the necessary skills to be responsible for their actions and decisions.

• The Student Success Coach will counsel, motivate, advise, and provide caring mentorship in order to help all students meet their educational and life goals through monthly (or more as needed) transitional sessions.
• Help students create their own Individual Student Success Plans that focus on goal setting, follow through, and monitor their progress.
• Encourages students to achieve self‑awareness, such as identifying strengths, values, interests, purpose, and passions.
• Assists the students in becoming more responsible and developing decision‑making skills.
• Reviews student’s academic progress weekly; connects students who have GPA below 2.0 (C) and/or a 69% (D) or lower in a core subject with tutoring services.
• Develop relationships with families of students and maintain regular dialogue with family members about students' needs, progress in the program, and challenges.
• Required to recruit and sustain youth participants throughout the program.
• Establish a professional and supportive relationship with the students.
• Attend meetings with program and school site staff as necessary.
• Submit daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports on the progress of students and families.
• Other duties as assigned.

A successful candidate will possess:

• Minimum of 2 years of college, B.A./B.S. preferred or two years of relevant experience.
• Ability to work with youth who perform at different levels in either a classroom or after‑school program setting.
• Strong ability to demonstrate 3 teaching modalities: visual (presenting information using graphs, tables, videos, etc.), auditory (by…