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About us

In partnership with educators, government agencies, and community leaders across the nation, Graduation Alliance provides versatile pathways to high school graduation for youth and adults, fosters college and career exploration, and connects job creators to skilled and ready workers. Since 2007, Graduation Alliance has worked with more than 650 state agencies, school districts, community colleges, and workforce boards around the country to recruit, re-enroll, educate, and mentor students. Graduation Alliance also operates The American Academy, an exemplary online high school that is fully accredited by the Northwest Accreditation Commission, a division of Cognia.

Our full-service diploma completion programs can be delivered in facility-based, blended, or fully online settings. These programs are supported with recruiting, transcript analysis, technology, coaching and mentoring, social-emotional learning assessment and intervention, and robust support services.

We also develop and facilitate skill certification packages with tailored support to students of all ages. In coordination with local and national employers, we offer work experience, internship programs, and job placement. And we partner with institutions to provide pathways to post-secondary education and career training, complete with preferential enrollment, dual credit opportunities, and early financial aid reviews.

In early 2021, Graduation Alliance became a Certified B Corporation. B Corporations use the power of their businesses to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy and meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

Graduation Alliance works for one common goal: creating opportunity through the power of education.

Job Description:

Graduation Alliance is looking for a part-time (10-15 hours per week) Local Advocate to join a team dedicated to helping at-risk youth and adults reach graduation day in the Eatonville, WA area. Local Advocates work directly with students’ virtually and face-to-face to ensure each student has the support necessary to be successful. Local Advocates are instrumental in identifying students’ social/emotional challenges and work with both local and national resources to help them achieve success. Local Advocates accomplish this by working with an assigned student population and meets with them regularly to help resolve life barriers.

Our ideal candidate has a passion for and experience in helping students, especially those who have faced substantial life obstacles that previously have prevented academic success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Local Advocates work with new students to ensure a successful start to the program
• Local Advocates facilitate and participate in weekly meetups, including:
• Provide social/emotional support and information around community resources
• Build and foster sense of community within assigned student group
• Attend weekly study sessions with students and the Academic Coach to provide support
• Local Advocates hold scheduled office hours:
• Meet 1:1 with students, virtually or in-person
• Perform outreach to connect with students and parent/guardians
• Create resources & plan Meetups
• Host Monthly Community Event
• Identify and secure a safe location for students’ and families to meet once a month for community engagement events
• Meet with Academic Coach weekly to discuss student interventions:
• Help students re-engage
• Support students in crisis
• Support those students needing 1:1 assistance
• Local Advocates must maintain open, safe, and regular communication with students, parents, and school staff
• Local Advocates must be able to document interactions with both students & parents within the student portals
• Local Advocates must be comfortable engaging and updating parents when possible

Desired Experience and Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree in education or counseling is strongly preferred
• One-year successful educational counseling experience is strongly preferred
• Experience in high school teaching, tutoring or mentoring is strongly preferred. A valid teaching, counseling, or administrator license is highly desirable
• Experience building relationships with at-risk students
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Critical thinking, curiosity and good listening skills
• Well-developed emotional intelligence (ability to empathize/sympathize and motivate).
• Comfort with technology, social media and learning management systems.
• Team-focused, “can-do” attitude about the achievement of goals
• Superior organizational skills, ability to prioritize, multitask and work independently

If you are interested in this position, please submit your resume and please complete the questionnaire by clicking on this link or copying and pasting this to your browser:

https://app.journeyfront.com/?sr=2ce9bba5-6534-11ed-ba21-0e2b69bf7213

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• counseling: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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