Graduation Coach

3 weeks ago

Mississauga, Canada Peel District School Board Full time

**Job Summary**
Reporting to the Co-ordinating Principal - African, Black, Afro-Caribbean Student Success, the Graduation Coach will assist with leading and implementing programs, services, and other supports to meet the needs of Black students who are underserved, with a focus on student success to high school graduation and beyond.

This is an exceptional opportunity to be part of the Peel District School Board and work with equity team members and school staff to develop both short and long-term plans to identify Black students who are underserved in our schools. Working within the framework of providing equitable access to education and creating spaces where Black students are positioned to demonstrate excellence in academic achievement and well-being, coaches devise plans to help students achieve and demonstrate excellence. Identifying, naming, and dismantling systemic barriers to Black student success is a significant responsibility of this role.

In collaboration with students, families, and teachers, coaches complete needs assessments which identify barriers and develop holistic individualized student success plans that consider each student's individual situation, including mental health and overall well-being. Coaches work to engage Black students who are underserved through developing relationships and affirming their identities and cultures. As members of the CORE team, made up of school staff including administrators, graduation coaches advocate for and support student progress. An understanding of the advocacy needed to support each student is developed through ongoing mentoring sessions with students, consulting with families and school staff, and connecting students with supports available both within the school setting and in the broader community.

**Hours of Work**:Full-time: 7.0 hours per day, scheduled according to operational needs

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensuring students have access to and fully understand the resources and services needed to guide them on the path to graduation and beyond
- In collaboration with school guidance teachers, assisting students with successful transition from secondary school into post-secondary education, training, or labour market opportunities.
- Creating engaging opportunities for students to participate in activities during breaks in regular programming (i.e., long weekends, extended breaks, etc.) for participating students
- Maintaining confidential information on each individual student, utilizing the school educational software resource throughout the year to track and monitor academic achievement and general well-being (e.g., credit accumulation, attendance, any disciplinary issues)
- Preparing reports and compiling statistics as required
- Creating space for students to voice their experiences to enable the PDSB and secondary schools to establish trusting relationships and responsive services
- Completing needs assessments to identify barriers to student success, work collaboratively on strategies to remove them
- Engaging Black students by affirming their intersecting identities and cultures with an understanding of the diversity that exists within Black communities
- Developing holistic individualized student success plans that consider student mental health and overall well-being
- Building and maintaining professional, collaborative, supportive relationships with various stakeholders to support responding to biases and barriers that impact the engagement, well-being and learning of Black students; including relationships with teachers, other school staff, students’ families, community partners, and various service agencies
- Collaborating with the Community Engagement Manager and Community Engagement Specialists to provide wraparound support to students and families
- Acting as a mentor and an advisor to students, playing an essential role as an advocate for each learner with teachers, including school staff, parents, guardians, families, community members to support the learning of students who are underserved
- Conducting individual mentoring sessions with students and monitoring progress and performance in collaboration with school staff and CORE teams
- In collaboration with the equity team and school staff, creating and establishing both overarching general and individualized short
- and long-term plans for identified Black students who are underserved
- Attending, participating in, and providing input to, meetings with equity team members or other stakeholders as required
- Other duties as assigned by the Co-ordinating Principal - African, Black, Afro-Caribbean Student Success
- Managing referrals and caseload

**Qualifications**
- Degree in Social Work, or a related field, with two (2) years’ successful experience with Black students who are underserved or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience working with students/young adults aged 13 - 21
- Demonstrated experience with institutional agencies to

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