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Position Summary

The Academic Coordinator (AC) recruits and selects participants and develops and implements quarterly participant Educational Action Plans (EAPs). The AC also assists in administering and interpreting assessments. The AC maintains participant files, monitors monthly grades and progress reports, and calculates monthly stipends. The AC ensures that each participant is provided with sufficient academic support and chaperones various educational and cultural activities.  The AC must maintain strong, positive relationships with tutors and contact personnel at the target schools; the AC is the project’s primary point of communication with the participants and high school counselors. This position is grant-funded and continuation is contingent upon grant funds being continued.

Essential Job Duties

• Identify, recruit and select participants;
• Administer all diagnostic assessments to better meet the participant’s needs;
• Review state assessment with project participants and interpret test results;
• Prescribe and monitor quarterly EAPs for all participants;
• Review grades and diagnostic and achievement instruments to provide individualized programs of academic and personal support to enable each participant to successfully complete high school and enroll in a post- secondary educational institution;
• Monitor monthly grades and progress reports for all participants;
• Establish and monitor job shadowing opportunities for participants to access TRIO friendly employers;
• Monitor Summer Component grades and progress;
• Work closely with the Academic Liaison to meet the academic needs of participants;
• Work closely with the Academic Liaison to identify potential Saturday School and Summer teachers;
• Assist with Saturday School, Bridge Component, and Summer Component;
• Teach at Saturday School, the Bridge Component, and Summer Component;
• Assist with the Bridge Component;
• Provide academic monitoring through meeting with participants, high school teachers and counselors;
• Document weekly participant contacts;
• Follow-up and document progress with all project graduates and other former project participants at least once each year;
• Assist students with academic resumes, college searches, applications, scholarship searches, and financial aid applications;
• Track and calculate monthly stipends during the Academic Year and weekly stipends during the Summer Component;
•  Maintain participant files;
• Chaperone various cultural and educational outings, including college visits;
• Develop a profile of each participant at the conclusion of the Summer Component to share with parents/counselors/teachers; and
• Fulfill any other duties requested by the Project Director which job-related circumstances may demand.