"Student Success Coach (Partially Grant Funded)"

Student Success Coach (Partially Grant Funded)

Posting Number: 0001030

Reports to: Director, Student Success Coaching

Department: Start To Finish

Classification: Exempt

Full or Part-time: Full Time

Job Summary:

Student Success Coach supports students in achieving academic, career, and personal goals through proactive, individualized, and holistic coaching. Using an evidenced based model, position builds strong, trust-based relationships that empower students to identify strengths, navigate barriers, and persist to completion. Position emphasizes equity-minded practices, appreciative coaching, and collaboration across departments to foster a culture of belonging, wellness, and success.

Essential Functions:

Student Coaching and Support

• Provides proactive, personalized coaching to a caseload of students, with regular outreach to encourage engagement and goal attainment.
• Utilizes an evidenced based framework to guide students through reflection, planning, and problem-solving processes that promote persistence and success.
• Works collaboratively with advising, counseling, disability supports, CARE, financial aid, and faculty to connect students with relevant supports and resources.
• Helps students develop academic, career, financial, and personal success plans that include measurable milestones.
• Promotes student self-advocacy, time management, and help-seeking behaviors through ongoing engagement and skill development.
• Provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed support for students facing personal or systemic barriers to success.

Basic Needs Insecurity (BNI) Support

• Serves as campus provider for Basic Needs Insecurity (BNI) supports, connecting students to resources addressing food, housing, transportation, and financial insecurity.
• Coordinates referrals to internal and external partners, including state and local community agencies, to ensure students have access to holistic supports.
• Maintains accurate documentation of student engagement and outcomes related to BNI supports to assist with grant and institutional reporting.
• Promotes awareness of basic needs resources and collaborates with faculty, staff, and student organizations to reduce stigma and increase access.
• Works with Director and LMC partners to identify systemic barriers and enhance equitable access to essential resources.

Data Informed Practice and Assessment

• Uses institutional data, TargetX, and grant metrics to track student progress and outcomes.
• Documents coaching interactions, interventions, and referrals in accordance with departmental procedures.
• Contributes to departmental assessment and reporting to evaluate coaching effectiveness and equity gaps.
• Participates in training, calibration, and reflective supervision to ensure fidelity to evidenced based model and continuous improvement.

Collaboration and Campus Engagement

• Coordinates with faculty and staff to identify students who may benefit from coaching support.
• Partners with departments such as Student Well-Being & Accessibility, Advising, and CARE to ensure wraparound support.
• Promotes awareness of student success initiatives through outreach, presentations, and participation in campus events.
• Participates in new student orientation and first year experience programs to ensure new students are effectively connected with their success team.
• Serves as a student advocate, helping identify and remove institutional barriers that impede success.
• Contributes to positive, student-centered culture aligned with LMC mission and values.

Job Specifications:

• Bachelors degree required; Masters degree in education, counseling, social work, psychology, or related field preferred.
• Two years of experience in higher education, student support, or related coaching/advising role required.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse populations and promote equity in student outcomes.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of student development and success coaching models (e.g., Appreciative Advising).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with empathy, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• LMC require regular and predicable on-site attendance as an essential job functions. This position may require regular onsite presence at multiple campus locations to support students and departmental operations. Under certain circumstances, College may consider alternative work arrangements and will do so in compliance with and according to parameters outlined in Flexible Scheduling and Remote Work Options policy.

Salary Range: $58,489-$76,862

Special Instructions to Applicants: Be a part of the Red Hawk family and apply today! Benefits start on first day of hire! Extensive paid time off (including Spring Break), College fully pays the in-network health insurance deductible, minimum of 10% employer retirement contribution per payroll, and much more! https://www.lakemichigancollege.edu/about.

Official transcripts required upon hire. Monday through Thursday summer work hours apply to this position. Information on our standard hiring process: Lake Michigan College will accept applications on this position for at least 14 days. Applications will be screened for minimum qualifications as received. Once the search committee has determined which applicants they would like to interview, those applicants will be contacted. If this process extends beyond 21 days, a communication of the delay will be made to all applicants for the position. If you have questions, please contact Human Resources at hr@lakemichigancollege.edu.

Open Date: 12/18/2025

Closing Date:

To apply, visit https://lmc.simplehire.com/postings/5528