"Program Development Specialist"

Position Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Program Development Specialist for the EOF Program within the School of Engineering.

Among the key duties of the position are the following:

• Promotes and achieves student success by providing comprehensive academic support and retention services to students in a specific population and by making timely referrals to appropriate offices.
• Creates and sustains a supportive learning environment that inspires, encourages, and achieves maximum student success from outreach to completion of the baccalaureate degree.
• Achieves student success through intrusive academic and personal mentoring, academic coaching, academic guidance, financial literacy and other responsibilities that provide essential student development and leadership.
• Develops, implements and participates in academic outreach, retention, assessment, guidance, and related initiatives.
• Provides services to program participants to include intrusive academic advising of SoE students who are identified as needing extra support and resources.
• Conducts day-to-day advising meetings.
• Helps students select appropriate classes and guides students in their choice of an Engineering major.
• Conducts end-of-semester and end-of-year academic review.
• Counsels students in academic difficulty and/or on academic probation.
• Helps students navigate issues with Financial Aid, Housing and Dining Services.
• Updates advising database records accordingly.
• Works to prepare students for career readiness through leadership and professional development.
• Provides numerous scheduled workshops in support of the students' collegiate success, academically, personally and professionally.
• Shares duties in the planning and running of a five-week summer bridge program for incoming students of this population.
• Contributes to the career development and alumni engagement of students in the School of Engineering EOF program.
• Handles the development and implementation of strategies to increase the professional development, career access, and creating connections between alumni and current students.

Minimum Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree and five years of related experience in program administration and coordination, working with students in a math/science or engineering curriculum; or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Special Conditions

Due to the nature of the workflow of this office, no vacation may be taken from the middle of June through the end of July. Some evening and weekend work is necessary.

About Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.