Student Success Center (SSC) Coordinator is responsible for organizing the delivery of student support services provided by Student Success Center partners in an area high school. The SSC project promotes collaboration between schools and local community service providers to avail support to students in the areas of college preparation, career exploration and social support. SSC Coordinators will ensure that the creation, implementation, future growth, and data analysis on the project are completed each year. The Coordinator will directly manage SSC operation, implement a comprehensive data collection and analysis project, supervise professional staff and student interns, build partnerships with community organizations, and promote student success within the high school.

• Oversee the implementation of the Student Success Center project in a neighborhood high school in the Philadelphia School District
• Create a management plan for the SSC including staff schedules, program calendars, and convening of services across school staff and SSC partners.
• Establish a working relationship with the school administration, staff, teachers, students, parents, and the SSC Partners.
• Convene SSC partners to explore improvement in services to students around college preparation, career exploration, academic and social support.
• Galvanize support of SSC partners, school administration, and community agencies to increase the numbers of students who have a post-secondary life plans that include but not limited to college preparation, occupational skills training, work force development, and/or military enlistment.
• Supervise the Student Success Center Leadership Academy students.
• Create programming for students around college, career and social support
• Develop an on-going list/database of local student support services for SSC participants and their families
• Set up training programs for students in the areas of peer mentoring, leadership development, and employment preparation
• Develop and implement marketing strategies with student leaders to heighten awareness of SSC services and increase use by students, staff, parents, and community members
• Leverage existing programming of community partners so that minimally 50% of the school’s population are touched by services
• Implement comprehensive data collection and reporting strategies. Analyze data regarding SSC outcomes.
• Actively initiate/perpetuate relationships with PYN’s initiatives, the school, and community partners that promote expanded youth opportunities

• Completed a bachelor’s degree program from an accredited college or university; master’s degree preferred;
• Minimum of three (3) years experience working directly with inner-city high school students of color.
• Minimum of two (2) years experiences tutoring, advising and/or counseling inner-city high school students.
• Minimum of three years of full-time paid, professional administrative experience, which has involved project management, collaboration in interdisciplinary teams, and working in an educational setting and has included facilitating program planning and implementation geared toward preparing students for postsecondary programs;
• Have no unsatisfactory record on file and have not been subject to any disciplinary action within the past 18 months;
• Have an excellent attendance and punctuality record during the last three (3) years –defined as no more than 18 occasions of lateness or absence for personal illness in the last three years with the exception of one long-term absence.
• Excellent people skills - Demonstrated ability to create functional, working relationships with school staff, community partners, and parents
• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills
• Demonstrated ability to guide/channel PYN initiatives and community resources so that minimally 50% students of the total population of the center’s respective high school get served
• A working knowledge of postsecondary preparation practices for high school students
• Demonstrated knowledge of youth development
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement programming that heightens students’ participation in center-based initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work with non–motivated and at-risk students.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, including creation of written research reports.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage a data collection
• Experience directing a student-run organization
• Demonstrated willingness to explore creative/artistic ways (music, dance, theater, and /or visual art) to create a highly efficient learning environment for SSC participants.
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects at one time
• Ability to work in a school environment
• Ability to navigate an urban school system and its supplemental services
• Good oral and writing communication skills – Demonstrated ability to speak extemporaneously
• Interest in workforce development, youth development, and/or educational reform issues
• Successful completion of a criminal and child abuse clearance