#1753-PP86 Academic Coach

Purpose of Job:

To engage students, collaborate with others to promote student success, provides outreach and support
services, as well as respond to identified students ensuring that each student successfully achieves
personal and program goals.

Essential Duties/ Major Accountabilities:

Show Up: Be ACCOUNTABLE for our students, ourselves, and our team.
Connect: Develop and maintain TRANSPARENT and HONEST relationships with our students and
team
Succeed: Become a STRONG unified team providing students an INNOVATIVE environment to
become productive members of society

Interventions

Transportation
Transport students for school-related activities utilizing the required CDE Driver Certification
and CDE Certified GOAL vehicle

MTSS
Monitor student attendance data to identify and provide interventions to students who are not
actively engaged in school, including, but not limited to, home visits and conference on calls.
Ensure quality and timely documentation of all interventions provided.

Truancy
Collaborate with regional leadership to ensure accurate truancy documentation is provided to the
court.
May attend, as needed, truancy court hearing of an identified student.

Community and Legal Resources
Compliance
Complete assigned training and adhere to school policy and state law, including, but not limited
to, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and compliance.

Community Engagement
Collaborate with a GOAL Social Worker to connect students to identified external resources to
support individual student needs.

Recruitment
Actively recruit new students through community partnerships and events utilizing GOAL
marketing materials

Support: Academic/Social Emotional
Level I Tech Support for Students
Utilize GOAL Helpdesk ticketing system to communicate needs with the IT department. Verify
resolution of ticket and communicate to student.

Academic Support
Facilitate student's working with their teachers for academic learning and growth.
Facilitate student access to accommodations as needed.

Social Emotional Support
Facilitate student access to identified social emotional support staff as needed.

Assessments
Champion GOAL's culture of assessment by ensuring student participation and proctoring
throughout the year.

Platform Knowledge
Understand the student experience in GOAL learning platforms, including, but not limited to,
progress reports, schedules, and transcripts.

Gladiator Connections/Advocacy
Communication
Build connections with staff, students, and parents to keep the student progressing toward
academic success, including, but not limited to, providing progress reports and student, parent,
staff conferences.

Extra-Curricular
Possess and share a general knowledge of GOAL Academy's extra-curricular activities and
student opportunities.

Daily Attendance
Maintain daily student communication and document attendance utilizing identified GOAL
systems.

Teamwork
Participate in daily POD huddles to establish clear lines of communication and define daily
responsibilities with fellow POD teammates for the success of assigned students

Accountability Standards for all GOAL Academy High School Staff:

Love for children and ability to work enthusiastically on their behalf.
Actively and enthusiastically recruit new students through community partnerships and
community events.
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time-management, verbal, and written communication
skills
Knowledgeable and comfortable working with technology
Able to competently and persistently apply problem solving skills towards technology issues.
Proven ability to serve on teams and participate in a collaborative decision-making process.
Strong work ethic to achieve both school and personal goals.
Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
Willingness to travel regionally and transport students as required.
Ethical, honest, and good-humored

Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:
High school diploma or its equivalent is required.
Able to meet paraprofessional highly qualified requirements as defined by the Colorado
Department of Education required, defined as: Earning an Associate degree or completing at least
two years (48 credit hours) of study at an institution of higher education or passing a formal state
or local assessment measuring ones knowledge of and ability to assist classroom teachers in
reading, writing and mathematics.
Valid driver's license is required.

Experience:
Two years of experience working with youth preferred.
Two years of experience working with students in a secondary school or school system preferred.
Experience working with at risk youth preferred.
Bilingual preferred but not required

Physical Requirements of this position include:

Seldom
Cold-50 F or less/Heat- 90 F or more/Gases-Fumes/ Heights/Climbing/ Crawling-Kneeling/ Bending/
Walking on Uneven Surfaces/Chemical-Solvents/ Travel-National or International
Over 30 Pounds: Lifting-Lowering-Reaching Over Shoulders-Reaching Forward-Pushing-PullingCarrying

Occasional
Noise/Working Alone/ Local Travel/ Visual Acuity-Far/ Color Discrimination
Over 20 Pounds: Lifting-Lowering-Reaching Over Shoulders-Reaching Forward-Pushing-PullingCarrying

Frequent
Driving/ Work with Others/ Visual Acuity-Near/ Hearing/ Speech/ Manual Dexterity/ Eye-Hand
Coordination/ Computer/ Mouse/ Copier/ Scanner/ Printer/ Telephone
Under 20 Pounds: Lifting-Lowering-Reaching Over Shoulders-Reaching Forward-Pushing-PullingCarrying