Middle School Student Advising and Program Coordinator

Breakthrough is the leading college access and success nonprofit in Central Texas. For more than 20 years, we have partnered with thousands of middle and high school students who aspire to be the first in their family to graduate with a degree or certificate. We make a radical, long-term commitment to students, to and through college, unlocking the power of education and a lifetime of opportunity. We support the whole student with personalized services, work closely with community partners, campuses, and employers, and advocate for our students with lawmakers. Breakthrough students attend 60+ public schools and persist at nearly 100 colleges and universities. The result is that 55% of Breakthrough students graduate from college, compared to 17% of low-income students in our region. Our work has resulted in more than 550 college graduates, with 4,000 on their way, positively impacting families for generations, our region’s educational access, and the Central Texas economy.

You are a strong candidate for the Early High School Student Advisor and Program Coordinator role if, above all, you are a champion for increasing social and economic opportunity through educational attainment. You are a servant leader, and feel at your best in a deep relationship with the communities in which you serve, and in collaboration with others you work and partner with. You are passionate about building authentic relationships with students, family members, caregivers, and the educators at the schools your students attend. You bring content expertise in youth development, college access, and event or program operations. You will also bring experience or demonstrated capacity in the following competencies:  

• Student-Centered Impact Orientation: Demonstrates dedication to supporting all students’ growth and postsecondary success by setting and achieving ambitious, measurable goals.

• Inclusive Communication: Operates with cultural humility and demonstrates written, verbal, and digital communication skills in 1:1, small group, and whole group settings, that foster and contribute to an inclusive environment that effectively engages others across diverse identities and experiences.  
• Relationship Building: Builds trusting, effective relationships that enable collaboration, productive conflict and dialogue, honest conversations, and authentic partnerships with colleagues, students, families, campus staff, volunteers, community partners, donors, and other key stakeholders.
• Activating Others: Able to influence and motivate others, acting with or without authority, to follow process, deliver outcomes, meet deadlines, and work together to get things done efficiently. 
• Continuous Learning & Improvement: Embraces and applies feedback, demonstrates curiosity, creativity, and a growth mindset, and pursues opportunities to strengthen individual performance and team/organizational outcomes. 
• Prioritization & Resourcefulness: Effectively puts time and effort where it is needed the most, asks for help,  maximizes resources, and envisions innovative solutions to reaching outcomes. Prioritizes multiple tasks and delivers commitments in a timely manner, and possesses a disciplined, strong work ethic and comfort with working non-standard hours (some weekends and evenings).

• Resource Connection: Works effectively with the Student and Family Support Specialist to connect students and their families to non-academic providers and resources within the community, including school-based services, mental health services, and others. 
• Data Tracking & Evaluation: Submits timely, accurate, comprehensive case notes and other information and tracks/analyzes data with fidelity to drive action that supports student success, informs program design, and ensures meeting team, advising, and persistence goals.