Career Coach

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Requirements:

• Minimum tenure is 18 months before transition to Senior Career Coach.
• Tech-readiness of grads: Develop and foster a bi-weekly feedback loop with course instructors to evaluate student performance to ensure graduation requirements are being met and students are job ready.
• Outcomes Qualification: All graduates qualified within two weeks of graduating.
• Coaching Outreach: All job seekers contacted every two weeks for job search strategy partnership (high risk every week).
• Outcomes Extended: All participants in extended pipeline program have clear expectations and have completed all requirements of program eligibility.
• Student + Graduate Tracking: Student and Graduate updates are entered into Outcomes Tracker within 48 hours of engagement.
• Partnership Engagement: Engages local community to source candidate recommendations and create added employer:student touchpoints throughout programming.

Responsibilities:

• The goal of the Career Coach (CC) is to ensure students are supported as they start to think about their next professional steps and graduates are prepared and confident in their job search.
• Manages a robust pipeline of students and graduates through scalable and innovative programming initiatives, one-on-ones, employer engagement.
• Responds to students and job seeker needs to identify challenges and mitigate areas of struggle to develop cohesive and intentional action plans.
• Strives to understand and engage the local tech scene and incorporate this community and perspective as much as possible.
• Serves as an accountability and thought partner to students and local GA teammates (Instruction, Admissions, Marketing) and communicates a consistent, thoughtful, and unified message.
• Delivers meaningful programs that meet the Outcomes Baseline Commitment and incorporates the 5 Themes to Outcomes Success to reinforce best practices and empower job seekers to lead a successful and strategic job search.