Job Details
Job Family
STAFF - Support Non-Exempt (SNE)
Grade
12
Salary
$21.31 - $26.65
Department
Continuing Education and Professional Development
Reports To
Manager, Integrated Ed & Train Prgm Mgr
Closing Date
July 2, 2024
FLSA Status
Non-Exempt
First Review Date
May 17, 2024
Job Summary
The Specialist is responsible for coordinating recruitment and retention activities of the adult education programs (ABE/GED and ESOL) and for meeting adult education retention, placement, and transitioning goals. This individual is responsible for coordinating the program offerings, creating classes, and managing the intake processes for adult education students.
This is a temporary grant funded position through June 30 year 2025 contingent upon grantor funding and grant extensions.
This grant position will be eligible for participation in the Florida Retirement System (FRS) after 6 consecutive months of continuous employment.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Resolves student registration issues
- Creates classes in the Linux system and makes appropriate updates
- Searches for potential new instructors for the department
- Organizes, maintains, and updates all departmental records pertaining to adult education students and instructors
- Ensures that all student files meet audit requirement standards
- Communicates information about adult education program requirements and schedules to other departments
- Makes appropriate connections for students to learn about admission, registration, and enrollment in MDC credit programs
- Secures student information and performs follow-up
- Communicates with adult education students on a regular basis, both in person and by the phone
- Works closely with students to identify and refine educational and career goals and provides ongoing advisement to those students
- Designs appropriate advertising materials, schedules speakers, works with job placement services, and attends related meetings
- Contacts students with excessive absences
- Maintains contact with current and past students in an effort to promote retention and educational continuity
- Coordinates the annual graduation ceremonies for GED/ESOL students
- Reviews instructor performance and compiles teacher evaluation reports
- Performs other duties as assigned
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Education, ESOL, or related field and three (3) years of related experience in adult education or similar program
- All degrees must be from a regionally accredited institution
- Knowledge and understanding of College organization, goals and objectives, and policies and procedures
- Possess effective communication skills both orally and in writing
- Possess effective interpersonal and organizational skills
- Possess excellent public relations and decision-making skills
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with academic departments, faculty, staff, students, and the local community
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
- Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to establish and maintain effective public relations
- Ability to work a flexible schedule including days, evenings, and some weekend assignments
- Ability to interact in a positive manner in a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural environment with students, faculty, and staff
Preferences
Certain servicemembers and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such servicemembers and veterans, will receive preference and priority for this job vacancy. In addition, certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements outlined in this job vacancy and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Additional Requirements
The final candidate is to successfully complete a background screening and reference check process.
EQUAL ACCESS/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Miami Dade College is an equal access/equal opportunity institution which does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, marital status, age, religion, national origin, disability, veteran's status, ethnicity, pregnancy, sexual orientation or genetic information.
To obtain more information about the College's equal access and equal opportunity policies, procedures and practices, please contact the College's Equity Officer: Cindy Lau Evans, Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs/ADA Coordinator/Title IX Coordinator, at (Voice) or 711 (Relay Service). 11011 SW 104 St., Room 1102-1; Miami, FL 33176. (see below)