Position Title: Part Time Nursing Success Coach (On Site - University Center, MI)

Employee Group: Administrative/Professional

Division/Department: Nursing

Status:

• Part-time, 25 hrs/week, 52 weeks/year
• Starting Salary $30.73 -- $34.42 per hour: Commensurate with Qualifications and Experience

Position Summary Information

Position Accountabilities and Essential Functions

The successful candidate must demonstrate experience, skills, and commitment to fostering an environment of belonging, diversity, equity and inclusion in students, faculty and staff.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Nursing Success Coach is a multi-faceted role that will promote the success of our nursing students from clinical entry to their graduation. You will support the academic success of our students working with them directly by identifying barriers to their success, assisting with their learning processes along with their clinical skills and reasoning and connecting them to resources for additional support. In addition, you will assist with marketing of the ADN to BSN 3+1 program with SVSU, recruitment of students, advising, collection and dissemination of evaluation data, coordinated program growth, student support, and retention. This position will facilitate community partnerships and outreach. The Nursing Success Coach will collaborate with lead and clinical faculty, academic advisors, staff and other departments to develop a holistic, individualized plan for their success while monitoring and analyzing student referrals and performance indicators including progression, retention and graduation. The Nursing Success Coach will report directly to the Associate Dean. This is a grant-funded position through August 31, 2026. This is a part-time position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

Mentoring

• Serve enrolled students as an academic mentor and coach who is focused on success.
• Provide nursing content-specific coaching and tutoring to help students develop clinical reasoning and judgment related to academic and professional developmental strategies.
• Develop personalized retention activities, (for individual and groups of students) in person and synchronous and asynchronous web-based learning.
• Collaborate with faculty to develop individualized success plans for incoming and continuing nursing students based on their learning needs, using College resources (e.g., Office of Disability Resources, Counseling) as appropriate.
• Develop and implement effective strategies to remediate students, promote confidence, and ensure academic success, including personalized retention activities (individual/group, in-person/online).
• Maintain academic standards and monitor student progression through the Delta College Nursing Program and ADN to BSN 3+1 curriculum.
• Develop student development activities (e.g., study skills, time management, test-taking, APA writing) in conjunction with current student support areas.
• Collaborate with course faculty to promote student success, serving as a resource for nursing student retention strategies.
• Utilize strong planning, organizing, decision-making, and result-oriented skills as an experienced nursing professional.

Advising:

• Advise ADN to BSN 3+1 students after consulting with SVSU RN to BSN Coordinator on courses that can be taken at Delta College.
• Review required SVSU residency credits to ensure student is only completing required courses.

Partnerships:

Work collaboratively with staff at Delta