Learning Specialist-Academic Success, Disability Serv.

Location: Knoxville, TN, USA; onsite position

Company

Academic Success support is provided to students across colleges and departments at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences.

What you will do

• Provide individual and group academic coaching focused on learning strategies and student success.
• Develop personalized learning plans, monitor support strategies, and maintain records of student interactions.
• Administer, score, and interpret learning assessments to inform coaching and academic support.
• Design and facilitate workshops, informational sessions, and board or licensure preparation resources.
• Provide proctoring services for students receiving testing accommodations.
• Coordinate Academic Success operations, tutoring and retention initiatives, scheduling, communications, campus events, and student-service data tracking.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Counseling, Higher Education/Student Affairs, Psychology, Social Work, Social Sciences, or a related field; transcript required.
• At least two years of experience in coaching, mentoring, advising, instruction, training, or student support services.
• Experience developing learning resources and facilitating workshops or presentations.
• Strong oral and written communication, organization, planning, prioritization, and relationship-building skills.
• Knowledge of factors affecting student learning, including the needs of non-traditional students, veterans, and students with disabilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and relevant technology platforms; occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work collaboratively with students, faculty, staff, and campus partners.
• Support campus-wide tutoring, retention initiatives, orientations, resource fairs, campus tours, and other academic programs.
• Work in a fast-paced environment while managing services independently and collaboratively.