Student Worker - Peer Coach
Blinn College
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- Location
- Bryan, United States
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 13
- 7 days ago
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Blinn College
Higher education · 1,001 to 5,000 employees
What you'll do
- Recruit, engage, and support students with foster care experience, helping them access campus resources, services, and benefits.
- Track project touchpoints and data, attend trainings, and maintain a simple engagement budget.
What you need
- Applicants should be familiar with campus processes, including meeting with academic advisors, class registration, and accessing campus resources.
- Must follow through on assigned tasks, work independently, and attend scheduled meetings.
Key skills
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Job Summary
The main objective of the peer coaching position are to help recruit, engage and retain students with a background in foster care and ensure they are accessing and utilizing resources/benefits available due to their status as a former foster youth, with particular attention to state tuition and fee waiver utilization. Peer coaches will work directly with identified students as they become familiar with Blinn's College's campus resources and any benefits or services for which they may be eligible. Peer coaches will engage students with experience in foster care by directly reaching out to students and provide individual support as appropriate. Peer coaches will work directly with and be supervised by the LPC Liaison in the Disability Services Office. Peer coaches will work directly with the Education Reach for Texas staff to learn, practice and document use of peer coaching as a model as part of a pilot program to increase engagement and access to campus and community resources.
Principal Accountabilities
Ability to follow through on assigned tasks and work independently. Attend all scheduled meetingsApplicants should be familiar with campus processes including but not limited to meeting with academic advisors, class registration and accessing campus resources. Provide outreach and engagement to students at Blinn identified as having lived experience in the foster care system. Practice utilization of a peer coaching model being piloted for the project. Assist in assessment of students needs an eligibility for other services and benefits and connect students to resources as appropriate with the support of the institutions higher education foster care liaison. Track all touchpoints and other data related to the project and report on a regular basis to grant staff.Attend all in person and online trainings and professional development related to the peer coaching model and Education Reach for Texas annual conference and webinars.Maintain a simple budget of money to engage with students and programming.