Honors Student Support Specialist (Student Support Specialist)
Job Summary
Department Specific Responsibilities
- Serves as Honors Student Support Specialist to Herbert Presidential Scholars and Chancellors Scholars, supplying academic progress, enrollment, and retention oversight to meet scholarship requirements that complements major-specific advising in the schools.
- Serves as Student Support Specialist for Honors Program students in participating school honors programs.
- Participate in the development, implementation, and assessment of high impact co- and extra-curricular programming including leadership programming. Serve as Honors liaison for the Honors LLC and as advisor for College leadership councils.
- Works directly with students to provide support and guidance for honors coursework and honors contracts within the scholars' curriculum. Assist students in accessing relevant resources to support student success efforts of the Honors College.
- Monitor scholarship compliance each semester.
- Works with other honors staff to collect, analyze and report data on program effectiveness and scholar progress on a semester basis.
- Develops and implements co-and extra-curricular activities for honors scholars in the area of leadership activities.
- Works with honors staff to develop and implement co- and extra-curricular programming throughout the year that complements other scholarship programming in the College, enriches academic programs, helps with retention, and honors the intent of the scholarship donors. Particular focus on developing and coordinating community building and leadership opportunities for Presidential scholarship cohort and honors scholars and student leaders in College organizations.
- Represent the College in selected campus committees.
- Participates in other recruiting, student support, community-building, and programming activities for the College.
- Participates in the review of applicants and selection of candidates for on-campus scholarship interviews.
- Participates in recruitment functions and events to promote the Honors College.
- Other Duties as needed.
General Responsibilities
- Develops and implements programs and initiatives that offer support for students in crisis, facing adversity or challenges, or who belong to an under-represented or minority student population.
- Interfaces directly with students by attending student programming events, advising student organization leaders, meeting 1-on-1 to discuss support needs, and gathering satisfaction feedback from student participants to implement into future student services initiatives and objectives. Places an emphasis on confidentiality of student concerns, university policy compliance, and a culture of care within all direct student interactions.
- Collaborates with staff in own department and other departments, as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student support goals, often coordinating funding to sponsor student programs and initiatives.
- Projects outcomes for support services offered at the program, department/division, or campus level. Measures and evaluates effectiveness of student support initiatives against projected outcomes; regularly prepares reports on impact to students and budget and may present to stakeholders on effectiveness and to secure funding for initiatives moving forward.
- Serves on committees and performs student support research across the field of higher education and at peer institutions to identify and recommend best practices.
- Plans and coordinates communications for student support initiatives to ensure student participation, inclusion, and engagement.
- May provide guidance to other student support staff; makes process recommendations to manager for improved delivery of service.
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