Purdue University
Student Success Coach, Purdue Promise
🇺🇸
West Lafayette, IN
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Full-Time
💰
$49K
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Academic Advising
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July 19th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
Purdue University is hiring a professional to support the Purdue Promise program, which provides financial assistance and targeted coaching to Indiana 21st Century Scholars who are low-income, first-generation, or from diverse backgrounds. The role involves cultivating student self-efficacy and providing individualized support to help scholars graduate on time, debt-free, and prepared for life after college.
Highlights
- Support Indiana 21st Century Scholars through academic, leadership, social, and life skills development.
- Provide individualized care and coaching to retain and graduate students debt-free within four years.
- Required software or technical skills are not explicitly stated.
- Must hold a bachelor's degree in Higher Education, Student Affairs, Counseling, Social Work, or related field.
- Minimum two years of professional experience in student affairs, counseling, social work, education, or related areas.
- Demonstrate knowledge of higher education recruitment, orientation, retention, and student success.
- Exhibit strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills with discretion handling confidential information.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree, advising or academic coaching experience, and work with marginalized student populations.
- The anticipated annual salary is $48,750, with final offer based on experience and internal factors.
- Position is exempt from overtime and requires a background check; Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this role.
Student Success Coach, Purdue Promise Full Description
Job Summary
Purdue Promise is a four-year experience offering financial assistance and targeted support for Indiana 21st Century Scholars program who are low-income, first in their families to attend college, and/or from a varied ethnic background. The program is rooted in four guiding principles of student achievement - academic development, leadership development, social development, and life skills development - to assist students in strengthening their self-efficacy, self-advocacy, help-seeking skills and grit. It is designed to minimize barriers to success and provide individualized care and coaching to retain and graduate scholars prepared for navigating life after college. Our promise is to champion access, affordability, and holistic support to facilitate opportunities for qualifying Indiana scholars to graduate on time, debt-free, and prepared for life after Purdue. The program has received campus-wide recognition and national attention for success in graduating Purdue Promise scholars on-time (in four-years) and debt-free.
At Purdue, you’ll join a community where unrivaled pride and unlimited potential are more than just words—they’re the foundation of how we work and grow, together. If you’re ready to help build a better world through research that matters, take the next step and join us on this path.
About Us:
When you join Purdue University, you join a community that keeps moving forward. For more than 150 years, we’ve been known for not only our groundbreaking work in STEM research, but also for our collective imagination, ingenuity and innovation.
Website: www.purdue.edu/purduepromise
Instagram: @purduepromiseprogram
What We’re Looking For:
Education and Experience
Qualified candidates will need:
Qualified candidates will need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Higher Education, College Student Personnel, Student Affairs, Counseling, Social Work, or a related field
- Two years of professional experience in student affairs, counseling, social work, human services, education, or a related field (graduate assistantship/internship experience counts as half-time).
Skills:
- Expressed commitment to the Purdue Promise core values required:
- Include: Embrace and celebrate our diverse community.
- Support: Foster caring relationships based on trust and accountability.
- Empower: Cultivate confidence and courage in ourselves and others.
- Portray knowledge of higher education recruitment, orientation, access, transition, retention, and success.
- Handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
- Be a self-starter with strong organization and time management skills, with the ability to balance multiple priorities.
- Capability to take the initiative to solve problems, assume responsibility, and establish and maintain quality standards.
- Exhibit excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to interface with various constituents with unique needs (students, colleagues, campus and community partners, and parents/guardians/families)
Nice to Have:
- Master’s degree in Higher Education, College Student Personnel, Student Affairs, Counseling, Social Work.
- Experience with advising and/or personal and academic coaching, teaching, advocacy, financial aid, personal and career development, case management/outreach, and mentoring.
- Experience working with low-income, first-generation, and other marginalized or minoritized students.
- Teaching experience
- Demonstrate experience working in a fast-paced environment and demonstrated flexibility with program changes.
Additional Information:
- Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position
- A background check will be required for employment in this position
- FLSA: Exempt (Not Eligible For Overtime)
- Retirement Eligibility: Defined Contribution Waiting Period
Who We Are:
Purdue is a community built on collaboration, with global perspectives, Boilermaker pride and endless opportunity to live, learn and grow. Join us and contribute to our culture.
Career Stream
Compensation Information:
Professional 2
Pay Band S055
Job Code # 20004220
The anticipated annual salary for this position is $48,750.00 The final salary offer will be determined based on a variety of factors, including internal equity, available budget, and relevant experience.
EOE
Purdue University is an EO/EA University
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