Success Coach, Catto Scholarship, CCP

Posted by Community College of Philadelphia on January 14, 2025

The Catto Scholarship is a “last dollar” opportunity that includes multiple evidence-based supports to help students achieve academic success. The Success Coach will provide a broad range of supportive services including, but not limited to, ongoing intensive case management; facilitating connections to campus academic, social-emotional, basic needs, and transfer and career resources and activities in a concerted effort to best facilitate academic and personal success to ensure retention and on-time graduation for all Catto Scholarship students.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Proactively provide targeted and individualized support services to a caseload of over 100 Catto Scholars.
• Create individualized success plans (ISP) with and for each Catto Scholarship student on assigned caseload.
• Actively monitor and analyze data pertaining to all students on assigned caseload to triage, prioritize, and inform outreach frequency and strategies.
• Document and collect data on students’ progress and level of participation in required programming toward meeting benchmarks and maintaining Catto Scholarship eligibility.
• Assess the students’ need for services and supports and coordinate the connection to relevant departments for enrollment and financial aid issues, academic advising and educational support services, counseling, 4-year transfer opportunities and career development resources and basic needs resources and supports.
• Facilitate and track the distribution of Catto Scholarship food, book and transportation stipends for each Catto Scholar student on assigned caseload.
• Monitor the usage of Catto Scholarship food, book and transportation stipends for each student on assigned caseload for data collection, reporting and budget purposes.
• Develop, coordinate, & facilitate monthly workshops for Catto Scholars that support academic success and career & transfer-readiness.
• Actively participate in the Catto Scholarship’s cross-functional Recruitment Team, Retention Team, and/or Graduation & Success Team.
• Actively participate in Student Assistance Team (SAT) meetings with Catto Scholarship Office staff to regularly review student progress and identify and address the mitigation and removal of barriers impacting retention and completion.
• Work with Success Navigators on the planning, coordination, and facilitation of the Catto Scholarship’s recruitment, intake, onboarding, and post-completion transition efforts and events, including Eligibility Interviews, JumpStart orientation events, Academic Brush-Up workshops, college tours, transfer fairs, pinning ceremonies, etc.
• Develop and disseminate monthly engagement and status reports for all students on assigned caseload.
• Provide temporary transitional support to Catto Scholars that “time-out” of and/or are discontinued from the Scholarship, including continued coaching and identification of alternative financial aid resources.
• Provide temporary transitional support to Catto Scholar graduates in need of continued coaching at 4-year colleges and universities.
• Collaborate with faculty and staff to develop and implement programming and policies leading to student retention and academic outcomes.
• Participate in professional development activities specific to job responsibilities.
• Maintain sensitivity, understanding and respect for a diverse academic environment, inclusive of students, faculty and staff of varying social, economic, cultural, ideological and ethnic backgrounds
• Deliver quality customer service to both internal and external constituents in a professional, helpful and courteous manner.
• Perform assigned duties in a manner consistent with the mission, goals, and core values of the College.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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