Integrated English Language Transition Coach

Position Summary: The JCAE Integrated English Language Transition Coach supports JCCC's mission by supporting English Language Learning (ELL) and English Connection (EC) students in achieving academic, career, and community success. In this role, the coach removes barriers by connecting students to essential resources like housing, transportation, and childcare, while assisting internationally trained professionals with transcript evaluation and credential translation. The incumbent acts as an international and immigrant onboarding specialist, guiding students through admissions, financial aid, and enrollment to ensure smooth transitions from non-credit to credit programs. The incumbent provides career planning and job placement support, assists with community outreach, maintains student performance data, and participates in professional development to effectively serve diverse student populations. This position reports to the English Language Learning Program Coordinator. This is full-time, 40-hour per week, 12-month per year position.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in adult education as an instructor, and/or advisor, mentor, or coach.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a related field. Available for flexible scheduling, including weekday evenings.
• Knowledge of functions and processes associated with college admissions, financial aid, and internationally trained professionals.

Position details include but are not limited to:

• Connect students with essential support services (transportation, childcare, housing, food, etc.) to eliminate barriers that might otherwise impede their academic progress.
• Stay current with community resources available to meet basic needs and cultivate relationships with agencies that provide them to promote students' ease of access to resources.
• Initiates ongoing contact with JCAE students and instructors to inform them of the support and services available.
• Follows up promptly and thoroughly with students in crisis, referring them to appropriate providers with warm hand-offs when possible.
• Help students explore and research career options to determine their career and life goals, and work with them to develop strategies to achieve them.
• Attends JCAE student orientations to provide students and teachers with information about Transition Coach services.
• Work with students who are internationally trained professionals to obtain, translate and interpret transcripts from international colleges and universities for placement in the US workforce.
• Work with students to explore career options, preparation requirements, demand projections for future employment, compensation expectations, and other considerations associated with career choices.
• Work with students to set realistic career and life goals that excite them.
• Help students create action plans that identify the steps required to enter training or education or otherwise prepare for entry into their chosen field.
• Support enrollment at JCCC (applying to the college, applying for financial aid, preparing for placement testing, selecting courses, engaging with JCCC Counselors, enrolling in classes, purchasing materials and textbooks, connecting students with JCCC resources, etc.).
• Research and resolve barriers to assist students through the enrollment process.
• Promote benefits, and outcomes of academic program offerings to prospective students.
• Conduct campus visits with prospective students and families tailored to their current enrollment stage.
• Coordinate with offices campus-wide to facilitate prospective student exploration and navigation.
• Assess the needs and goals of current JCAE English language learners and guide students to appropriate academic programs at JCCC.
• Assist learners with applying to JCCC, including guiding them through the admissions process, test preparation, financial aid forms, scholarship applications, campus tours, course enrollment (with assistance from JCCC Counselors), purchasing books and supplies, etc.
• Write student recommendation letters for JCCC and JCAE scholarships and awards.
• Collect and report student data for internal use and meet JCCC and Kansas state reporting requirements.
• Develop a proactive communication plan to help onboard students. Generate interest in JCCC at different levels within the JCAE ELL and EC programs.
• Articulate the college's mission and academic, extracurricular, and financial support offerings to prospective students from JCAE's ELL and EC programs.
• Inform students of both credit and non-credit opportunities at JCCC through classroom visits.
• Communicate JCCC enrollment processes to both JCAE ELL and EC students.
• Communicate JCCC and JCAE Scholarship opportunities to both JCAE ELL and EC students.
• Communicate information in a manner that is fully understood by the student regardless of their native language or English language abilities.
• Supports student job search and placement.
• Work with individual students and groups of students to develop resumes, cover letters, thank-you letters, and other materials needed for a successful job search.
• Lead mock interview sessions and provides students with feedback for reinforcement and improvement in effective interviewing.
• Communicate leads to jobs and other resources helpful in a job search.
• Maintain contact with students as they begin new jobs to support them in adjusting and succeeding in their new roles.
• Attend professional workshops, trainings, and conferences to update knowledge and techniques for onboarding international and immigrant students.
• Ensure Professional Development is focused on student recruiting, college enrollment, and non-native speakers.
• Participate in conferences, workshops and webinars that are used to gain knowledge applicable to the position.
• Share new learning among other Transition Coaches and English language acquisition colleagues.
• Other duties as assigned: Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity, may be updated at any time at the discretion of management.

To be considered for this position we will require an application and resume.

*Unofficial transcripts are required for all Adjunct faculty and Faculty positions.