Life Coach

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required in counseling, social work, psychology, education, or health care area.

• Possess personal qualities of honesty, flexibility, approachability, enthusiasm, and sense of humor.

• Demonstrated ability to develop positive mentoring/coaching relationships with a diverse, at-risk student population.

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.

• Specific skills-based competencies to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job; demonstrated interpersonal skills, technology skills, and oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability working with social services and organization of individual and family services.

• "Failure is not an option" attitude.

Basic Function:

• Support at-risks students in their pursuit of an education in the Dubuque Community School District.

• Develop and maintain relationships with students that focus on overcoming barriers to success.

Performance and Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain communication links with community agencies that serve homeless, neglected, delinquent, and disengaged students.

• Maintain accurate records (confidential and non-confidential) of all contacts with various client groups, support personnel, and agencies in the community for the purpose of providing an up-to-date reference and audit trail of services provided.

• Work with students, staff, parents, and guardians for the purpose of evaluating situations, solving problems, resolving conflicts, referring to appropriate professionals, and in general supporting students throughout high school.

• Conduct transcript, academic, and behavior data reviews for each identified student for the purpose of personalizing services for each student.

• Assist in the development of an intervention plan for each identified student for the purpose of insuring students' success in meeting graduation goals.

• Assist in the transition of students from elementary school to middle school and middle school to high school.

• Others duties as assigned

Terms of Employment:

• 201 day contract (includes 7 paid holidays); $24.21 per hour; 7 hours per day