Academic Engagement Coach

University of Roehampton - Student Support and Success

We have an exciting opportunity for Academic Engagement Coach to join the Student Support and Success Directorate to work at the heart of our team to support students to reach their full potential in their academic studies. We are looking for a driven, innovative, self-aware person who is passionate about making a positive difference through a proactive approach to academic support, to enable students to successfully continue, progress and complete their studies.

Academic Engagement Coaches are at the heart of our work, supporting all our students as they work towards successfully completing their degrees. You’ll be designing academic study and engagement plans with students and working with academic colleagues and specialist professional services teams to ensure that we put in place early interventions for ‘at-risk’ groups and respond to indicators of low student attendance and engagement. You will be responsible for identifying, planning, and monitoring the impact of our interventions with students, through a data driven approach. You will also support our work in monitoring and providing pro-active, and predictive, interventions for international students with low attendance and engagement and are at risk of breaching their student visa and compliance requirements.

An Academic Engagement Coach you will be expected to be an outstanding communicator, with a commitment to supporting every single student on their journey while at Roehampton. You will be expected to be proactive, engaging, and confident in your approach, no issue will be too large or too small for you to address. You will be key in identifying trends for poor attendance and early disengagement, while being responsible for designing and implementing bespoke academic and engagement interventions with the objective of improving student attendance, retention, and progression.

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Professional Services/Support staff up to Grade RU6 have access to the Local Government Pension Scheme; and on RU7 and above, have access to the University’s Retirement Savings Group Pension Plan, a defined contribution scheme, provided by Royal London. Our full range of benefits are available here.

Further information can be found on the job description.

If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity, please click on ‘apply’ or visit the working at Roehampton pages of our website and search ‘Academic Engagement Coach’.

If you have any specific questions on the role, please contact Luke Davy, Student Engagement and Retention Manager.

The University is committed to promoting diversity and equality of opportunity and aims to create a culture and environment where students and staff are treated fairly. The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

The closing date for completed applications is: 13th April 2026

It is expected that interviews will be held on: 21st April 2026

To enable us to respond to the market, we may interview before the closing date, so please don’t hesitate to get your application completed.