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University of Houston

Academic Support Success Coach

🇺🇸 Houston, TX

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Academic Advising

🗓️ June 20th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

University of Houston-System is hiring an Academic Support Success Coach. The role involves providing career counseling, academic advising, and educational guidance to medical students, fostering their success through coaching, workshops, and resource development. The coach monitors academic progress, implements intervention strategies, and collaborates with faculty to enhance student retention and degree completion.

Highlights

  • Provide integrated career counseling and academic advising for medical students.
  • Use tracking systems to identify and support at-risk students.
  • Monitor academic progress and conduct outreach to students on academic watch or leave.
  • Maintain detailed records of counseling and coaching activities.
  • Develop and lead workshops to enhance academic and executive functioning skills.
  • Assist with orientation programs and resource creation for academic and career development.
  • Collaborate with faculty and staff to design student success programs.
  • Stay informed on best practices in academic advising and institutional resources.
  • Requires a Master's degree or equivalent training and a minimum of three years of related experience; education and experience may be interchangeable.
  • Salary range is minimum to first quartile.

Academic Support Success Coach Full Description


 | Department: SA Admissions & Outreach
| Salary: Minimum to first quartile
| Description: Provides comprehensive support to medical students through career counseling, academic advising and educational guidance. Fosters student success by enhancing academic and executive functioning skills. The Academic Support Success Coach contributes to student retention and degree completion by providing one-on-one and group coaching, conducting workshops and developing additional resources as needed. 

1. Offers integrated career counseling, academic advising and educational support, as well as guides students on career paths and academic goals. 
2. Utilizes tracking system to identify at-risk students, implement success strategies and connect students to relevant resources. 
3. Monitors academic progress, provides interventions and conducts outreach to students on academic watch or leave of absence. 
4. Maintains accurate records of counseling sessions, coaching activities, student progress, and workshop engagement. 
5. Develops and leads workshops designed to support academic and executive functioning skills for medical students. 
6. Assists with orientation programs, student success workshops, and resource creation to support academic and career development. 7. Collaborates with faculty and staff to design and implement programs that promote student success, retention, and engagement. 
8. Remains abreast of best practices in academic advising and incorporates them into services while maintaining knowledge of institutional resources. 
9. Performs additional job duties as assigned. 

MQ: Education: Requires application of advanced principles, techniques and theory in a professional discipline or a thorough general business management knowledge. Knowledge of this level typically obtained through a directly job-related Master's degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed. Experience: Requires a minimum of three (3) years of directly job-related experience. Certification/Licensing: None.

Additional Job Posting Information: 
- Department is willing to accept education in lieu of experience. 
- Department is willing to accept experience in lieu of education.
| All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.