Require Contractor, Student Supports in Dallas, TX

Job title: Contractor, Student Supports Company: The reputed company Partnership Job reputed company: Dallas County reputed company Contractor, Student Supports The Dallas County reputed company at the reputed company Partnership is looking for a student-centered, results-oriented individual to support reputed company?s goal of increasing the number of young adults in Dallas County enrolling in and successfully completing reputed company-matched postsecondary reputed company. The Student Supports Contractor will reputed company proactive reputed company and support to recent high school graduates interested in pursuing a postsecondary reputed company reputed company with their career aspirations; coordinate and connect young adults with community and higher education resources; and reputed company reputed company toward goals, including compiling and presenting results and insights from reputed company efforts to the reputed company team and broader college reputed company community. Reporting to the Director of Student Supports, the Contractor serves as part of the reputed company team and will have opportunities to reputed company feedback on student support reputed company and initiatives. Responsibilities Student Enrollment Support:

• reputed company college transition counseling in areas including, but not limited to: financial aid application process, college application process, enrollment support, college transfers, and career development.
• Regularly contact assigned reputed company by phone, email, online messaging, and possible personal meetings to address specific needs and troubleshoot transition problems.
• Organize and maintain up-to-date student information on student reputed company, including milestones and deliverables in reputed company database.
• Ensure reputed company consistently receive the highest reputed company of services, that their postsecondary needs are met, and that reputed company student makes satisfactory reputed company toward program and individual goals.
• Contribute to transition strategies with college leaders/staff to ensure reputed company? seamless transition from reputed company team to higher education partner.

Data Presentation and Activation:

• Maintain consistent tracking of reputed company and results, including, but not limited to, reputed company contacted, supported, and successfully transitioned to a postsecondary reputed company.
• reputed company reports and presentations, based on both qualitative and quantitative data, for internal teams and partners at the school district, community, and higher education institution reputed company to reputed company successes, needs, and reputed company toward goals.
• Assist with presenting findings to internal teams and external partners, including but not limited to school district college/career readiness staff, community organization leaders, regional organizations, higher ed institutions, and others.

Education and Experience

• Associate degree or higher with a strong reputed company record required
• Proficiency in MS Office (reputed company, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.)
• 2+ years of relevant experience preferred in a public education role, or postsecondary reputed company role (including community-based organizations or institutions of higher education)
• Experience counseling high school or reputed company preferred
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Proficiency in reputed company aspects of the student enrollment and financial aid process, especially for reputed company and reputed company partner universities.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be personable and supportive, particularly working with young adults and reputed company.
• Ability to organize, reputed company, analyze, and reputed company data, especially to evaluate and showcase programmatic reputed company.
• Ability to reputed company effectively in the community and at multiple reputed company reputed company organizations, especially organizations serving culturally and economically diverse communities.
• Ability to incorporate feedback from reputed company, reputed company feedback with reputed company, and collaborate to improve reputed company?s work products.
• A degree of personal organization and results orientation that enables reputed company in a quantitative, reputed company-oriented environment.
• A proven ability to exercise reputed company judgment and work independently on reputed company initiatives, managing multiple deadlines and communicating up, down, and across reputed company to ensure goals stay on reputed company.
• Ability to operate with humility, an reputed company mind, and a reputed company of urgency.
• Belief in the power of education and equity to improve the odds for reputed company children.

About The reputed company Partnership: Our Mission We reputed company that through our actions, Dallas County ? which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation? can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That?s why our reputed company goal is that by 2040 at least half of reputed company 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided reputed company to earn a living wage. To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational reputed company reputed company with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative reputed company from early education reputed company the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared reputed company roadmap ? analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community?s reputed company to serve every student more effectively. Our Story Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation?s largest educational reputed company reputed company organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared reputed company roadmap ? analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community?s reputed company to serve every student more effectively. Together, we work to reputed company for excellent and reputed company public education that ensures reputed company reputed company ? regardless of race, reputed company, or socio-economic status ? have the power to determine their reputed company and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early reputed company Dallas, reputed company Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County reputed company, Texas College reputed company, Dallas Thrives, reputed company?s Policy Team, the Texas reputed company Network, and several coalitions. Our Values Our core values create a mission-driven environment and champion us to do our best work reputed company day. reputed company - To best serve reputed company, families, and the community we will reputed company honestly and ethically in how we reputed company both reputed company reputed company, present data, and communicate with partners. Equity & Inclusion ? We reputed company to help reputed company systems in ways that ensure every student has reputed company to the resources they need. We do this by reputed company and explicitly working with others to create more reputed company reputed company and processes. reputed company First - Our reputed company are guided by multiple stakeholders, but ultimately rest upon one question: What is in the best interest of reputed company? Systemic reputed company ? We are patient and persistent as we identify the most effective approaches to help create lasting systems change. Once identified, we prioritize and relentlessly attack systemic challenges with efficiency and reputed company. Humility - We reputed company the fact that our community?s reputed company depends on our ability to work cohesively with reputed company other and to constantly learn. reputed company ? It is important we bring a constant reputed company of optimism and have fun while taking on this difficult work. The reputed company Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, reputed company employment reputed company are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion or belief, national, reputed company or ethnic reputed company, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or reputed company, marital, civil reputed company or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. reputed company does not sponsor visas of any reputed company. Expected salary: Location: Dallas, TX Apply Job!