Baccalaureate Specialist

Austin Community College

Austin Community College,

ID: 7142823 (Ref.No. R-4131)
Posted: April 29, 2023
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

  • Reflects the diversity of our community

  • Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

  • Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

  • Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations

  • Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

  • Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Baccalaureate Specialist

Job Description Summary:

To promote and support the ACC RN-to-BSN program, and advise current and prospective participants.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Facilitates marketing of the RN-to-BSN program by developing a regularly re-occurring schedule of Information Sessions for prospective students.
2) Organizes and conducts onsite information sessions for prospective students according to a pre-established schedule.
3) Develops an online RN-to-BSN information session for prospective students.
4) Advises current students each semester, and prospective students as needed, regarding necessary prerequisite courses and how/when to access college resources such as financial aid, student services, library services, counseling, etc.
5) Creates and maintain records for currently enrolled RN-to-BSN students; ensures retention of those records in alignment with ACC Record Retention Policy.
6) Evaluates applicant transcripts using existing ranking system, and refines the ranking system as needed to ensure transparency in the admission selection process. Continuously monitors applicant selection process ensuring holistic review and admission diversity.
7) Monitors, on a continual basis, the progression of enrolled students to ensure on-time completion.
8) Plans, implements, and/or participates in recruiting events; develops events targeted to current ACC ADN students.
9) Develops and maintains RN-to-BSN advising forms, tracking forms, or other forms as appropriate.
10) Serves as point of contact for program and clinical compliance which includes assisting with submitting required documents including proof of immunizations, background check, drug screen, health insurance, CPR certification, TBC, and health data form to Castlebranch and other entities.
11) Facilitates student retention by assisting students with challenges/issues regarding licensure encumbrances, tuition, childcare, distance learning, information technology/computer accounts, etc.
12) Maintains communication with faculty/staff in identification of students who may need support so immediate resource identification can be implemented.
13) Serves on RN-to-BSN Advisory Committee
14) Participates in relevant College committees.

Additional Job Specific Duties
* May teach credit course in professional nursing aligned with Administrative rules.

Knowledge
* Best practices for higher education recruitment and enrollment strategies.
* ACC admissions/enrollment procedures and nursing program, careers, and courses.
* Resources available to assist students with licensure encumbrances, tuition, childcare, distance learning, information technology, etc.
* Advising and recruiting students in the RN-to-BSN program.

Skills
* Maintaining an established work schedule, which may include evenings and weekends.
* Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including the use of tact and diplomacy.

*Community outreach.
* Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
* Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
* Able to present to large and small groups as well as one on one.
* Able to collaborate with others in a team focused environment.
* Interacting with persons of diverse backgrounds.
* Able to quickly establish rapport and engage prospective students.
* Excellent writing, communication, and critical thinking skills.
* Ability to organize, manage confidential information, and oversee special projects through to completion.

Technology Skills
* Microsoft office suite (including excel spreadsheets) and Google office suite.

*Must be proficient in technology skills.

Required Work Experience
* Two years related work experience.

Required Education
* Master's degree in Nursing, Higher Education or related field.

Physical Requirements
* Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
* Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
* Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Salary Range

$49,205 - $61,506

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

May 15, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.