"Retention Specialist"

Retention Specialist

Company: Peru State College

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Category: Student Affairs and Services

Type: Full-Time

POSITION: Retention Specialist

SALARY: Salary high 40’s DOQ. Excellent benefits package. Consideration of applications begins immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

At Peru State College, the Retention Specialist (RS) serves as a vital part of the campus-wide team of passionate, student-centered, higher education professionals dedicated to helping students overcome obstacles and realize success. This role is a high student contact position responsible for retention programs and services focused on the first-year experience and at-risk student populations. The position provides programmatic leadership for the Peru Academic Liaison (PALs) program, at-risk student identification and intervention, and teaches one section of the College Success course. The position supports inclusion programming and provides success coaching to students on academic probation. The RS will provide leadership with the retention management software (Bobcat 360) including training, coordination, and best practices for implementation. This position coordinates sexual violence and sexual harassment awareness programming for students as well as providing support for the Title IX Coordinator in a designee role. The RS will work collaboratively with faculty and staff to identify and address amendable obstacles to student success. As needed, supervises proficiency/evaluation testing, supervising peer mentors/peer tutors for students needing support in with language barriers or remedial education in math or English. Advises and assists students in determining proficiency in college level courses. The RS reports to the Vice President for Enrollment Management and works with a variety of internal and external constituencies. Due to the importance of the RS being a high visibility, high student contact position, the RS will have occasional evening and weekend work. This position is exempt with regard to FLSA overtime provisions. This position is covered by the NSCPA bargaining unit.

QUALIFICATIONS:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree and related work experience. A master’s degree, preferably in a field related to higher education, human development, learning theory, guidance and counseling, psychology, or related field is strongly preferred, as is a minimum of two years of experience working within retention programming, academic support, or student affairs. The Retention Specialist should have functional knowledge of the role of support programming in retention efforts and a familiarity with best practices in higher education student services. A genuine interest in learning dynamics and effective transition programming and an understanding of federal regulations related to sexual violence and sexual harassment prevention is preferred. Additionally, this individual should possess a strong affinity toward detail-oriented projects, have basic proficiency with Microsoft Office, effective interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, and be able to maintain confidentiality. The successful candidate should have the ability to work with a wide variety of individuals including faculty, department heads, members of the campus community, students, and external constituencies.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Apply at www.peru.edu. Must submit the completed application plus letter of interest and resume.

This position is subject to veteran’s preference. Offers of employment will be conditional upon satisfactory results of a background check. Work authorization and/or visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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