Educational Outreach Manager I

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Under the leadership of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Success, the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success (OUESS) enriches undergraduate education and empowers students to succeed. We engage in collaborative development and delivery of transformative learning experiences, and we continuously pursue initiatives to foster success for all students. We do this through the efforts of our faculty, staff, and students. Visit www.oue.gatech.edu.

Academic Success and Advising (ASA), a unit of the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success (OUESS), is where students take academic success to the next level. ASA services support undergraduate students in achieving their academic goals through a range of both personalized and campus-wide initiatives that foster self-regulated learning, enhance academic skills, and support intellectual development within Georgia Tech's undergraduate education. To learn more, visit Academic Success & Advising Helping you succeed at GT! (gatech.edu).

Within ASA and reporting to the Director of Retention and Completion Initiatives, the EOMI (Academic Coach) will contribute to our undergraduate Academic Coaching program to support a regular caseload of students experiencing academic difficulty. The EOMI (Academic Coach) is expected to:

Foster the development of students' skills, behaviors, and habits that contribute to success in college and beyond and help students to identify and overcome obstacles that impede academic success.
Assist students to develop self-efficacy by identifying and overcoming obstacles that may be impeding academic success; motivate students to practice self-regulation and to take ownership of their academic success.
Help students identify, develop, and implement learning strategies and study skills specific to course materials.
Refer students to appropriate academic personnel and support resources, collaborating with others as necessary to monitor and accelerate the academic progress of referred students.
Maintain and monitor a caseload of first time in college, probationary, and transfer students; monitor the progress of caseload students via check-ins, scheduled meetings, proactive outreach, and regular communication.
Collect, input, analyze, and interpret data as required.
Collaborate with others as necessary at team meetings, presentations, and trainings.
Create and develop relevant course material for workshops, and other programming for students.
May assist with teaching and facilitating success seminars in our academic recovery initiatives. May present workshops and other forms of outreach.
As needed, participate in new student orientation, special summer programming for target student groups, and various university activities.

Note on working time
This position must be available to work standard GT business hours M-F, 8-5 (or 7-4 or 9-6), as well as some evenings and weekends based on student programming needs, with advance notice. We are looking for hardworking professionals who are dedicated to undergraduate education and who make students their top priority to join our talented, energetic, and creative ASA team.

Develop and coordinate the implementation of programs designed to promote the Institute to target audiences of potential and enrolled students and other groups thereby encouraging their enrollment and retention at the Institute and/or a program within the Institute. Efforts include program needs assessment, concept definition, program development, marketing and evaluation.

This position will interact on a consistent basis with: target group prospects and students, institutional and program administrators, Institute faculty and staff.

This position typically will advise and counsel: target group prospects and students, institutional and program administrators.

This position will supervise: May supervise

Job Duty 1 -
Analyze outreach objectives and assess needs in the way of program components and resources.

Job Duty 2 -
Define specific program objectives and develop implementation plans.

Job Duty 3 -
Coordinate program implementation including directing stages required to meet program objectives.

Job Duty 4 -
Develop communications and marketing materials that support program objectives.

Job Duty 5 -
Plan, schedule and manage program promotional events.

Job Duty 6 -
Participate in conferences and other meetings and events that promote program participation and provide promotional opportunities.

Job Duty 7 -
Assess, evaluated and report on program results relative to expectations.

Job Duty 8 -
Administer program budgets and maintain supply of program materials.

Job Duty 9 -
Develop programs to retain students in target groups.

Job Duty 10 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Weekends and evenings may be required for special events, dinners, football games, etc; some travel

Required Experience
Four to five years of job related experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Ability to coordinate activities among diverse groups and stakeholders is preferred Fluency in a second language may be preferred

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree in Education

SKILLS
This job requires a working knowledge of marketing and educational outreach related program planning and design, especially as it relates to assigned target group of potential and/or enrolled students. Also required are skills in maintaining a detail orientation, organization, presentation, customer relations and communications.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening

Job Grade: A8

Salary Range/Budget: $60k to $70k

Location: Atlanta, GA