Student Success & Engagement Coordinator

The Success and Engagement Coordinator provides proactive, holistic support to students through individualized success planning, case management, academic coaching, and strategic outreach. The position monitors student progress, coordinates campus resources and interventions, develops and facilitates student-success programming, and collaborates across campus to promote retention, persistence, and degree completion.

Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.

• Fosters the development of students' skills, behaviors, and habits that contribute to success in college and helps students to identify and overcome obstacles that impede collegiate success.
• Assists students in the development of an individual success plan which may include clarifying educational and career goals, choosing a program of study, and assisting the student through this decision-making process. 
• Assists students to develop self-efficacy by identifying and overcoming obstacles that may impede collegiate success; motivates students to practice self-regulation and to take ownership of their collegiate success. 
• Maintains, monitors and develops reports based on a caseload of designated students; monitors the progress of student caseload. 
• Utilizes early alert systems and proactive outreach strategies to identify and intervene with students showing signs of academic, personal, or financial distress.  
• Maintains thorough documentation of all student interactions and progress, ensuring timely follow-up and coordination with campus support services. 
• Collaborates with academic advisors, faculty, financial aid, mental health services, and other university resources to create a holistic, wraparound support plan tailored to each student’s unique needs. 
• Prepares and analyzes reports on caseload trends, intervention outcomes, and student progress to inform data-driven decision making and continuous improvement of support strategies. 
• Helps students to identify, develop, and implement learning strategies and study skills specific to course materials. Provides students with strategies related to academic progress and work/life/study balance. 
• Works closely with university faculty, student support units, and other stakeholders, including advisement units, tutoring, and student affairs departments on retention initiatives. 
• Collaborate across campus to provide academic success workshops including study skills, time management, goal setting, test taking strategies and test anxiety management with a focus on persistence, retention, and completion. 
• Collaborates across campus to create, and present relevant workshops, and other programming for conditional admit students and those at risk of not being successful. 
• Participates in orientation and recruitment activities as needed by the unit, Summer Bridge Programs, Open Houses, and other university activities as needed. 
• Maintains an effective informative and collaborative relationship with campus stakeholders. • Refers and accepts referrals of students for as needed. 
• May supervise GA or departmental undergraduate student workers as needed. • Guides students in the identification and utilization of campus resources as appropriate. 
• Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor.
  

• Bachelor's Degree
• 1 year of student success experience in a college or university setting. 
• Exceptional organizational and case management skills, including attention to detail and the ability to work and think independently, as well as working in a team setting. 
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. 
• Demonstrated ability of coaching, and mentoring techniques used in higher education. 
• Demonstrated experience working with first-generation, underrepresented, low socioeconomic status students on a college campus or in a higher education setting. 
• Social work and teaching experience or previous work with at-risk students is preferred. 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision. 
• Must be willing to work some evenings, weekends, and travel for outreach activities.

• Master's Degree

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is an R1 Opportunity University with a statewide economic impact of $2.7 billion dollars.  We offer 200+ undergraduate degrees, minors and specializations, 79 master’s degrees, and 40 doctoral degrees. Our main campus is 1,136 acres, with additional acreage in University Farms, Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center, and other facilities. The university is an essential part of the city of Carbondale and an important contributor to the culture of the entire region. While Carbondale includes many of the amenities of urban life, it retains its small-town flavor. Cost of living is considerably lower in the region than similar areas elsewhere, and many employees commute from nearby counties.

The Southern Illinois region is distinct from the rest of the state, boasting considerable natural beauty including the Shawnee National Forest, many state parks, national wildlife areas, and several lakes beloved for recreation. Local foods are readily available in the area, with a variety of eateries and a growing specialized food truck presence. The area is home to the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, an official wine appellation designation. The wineries extend the cultural reach of the community, hosting live music and continual art exhibits. The campus itself is a microcosm of the area, with a lake and forest on campus, as well as traditional collegiate architecture, quad, and residential halls. Students enjoy outdoor study areas as well as specialized computer labs scattered across campus, including in the three million volume Morris Library. To learn about employee benefits, employee tuition waivers, and find resources about Carbondale and the Southern Illinois region, visit: https://jobs.siu.edu/.
 

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer dedicated to building a community of excellence, equity, and diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, genetic information, marital status, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation including gender identity, unfavorable discharge from the military or status as a protected veteran. The university will comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations.