Middle School Student Success Specialist

Position Summary

Greater Than is committed to advancing a racially just future through equitable education — and the Middle School Student Success Specialist is central to that work in the Hillsboro School District. In this role, you will coordinate and lead middle school programming at Evergreen Middle School, helping students navigate the critical transitions from elementary through middle and into high school. Through holistic, wraparound support, you will walk alongside students as they move through the Glencoe feeder system — connecting them to Greater Than programming, building the foundation for high school graduation, and opening doors to post-secondary success.

Primary Responsibilities

Academic Intervention and Student Progress

• Monitor student academic progress and use data to inform and implement tiered intervention plans.
• Provide daily, differentiated interventions aligned to the science of reading and Common Core Math standards.
• Collaborate with teachers and the Student Success Team to analyze individual progress and implement MTSS strategies, using State Assessments, formative assessments, and District Benchmarks to guide decisions.

Student Engagement and Transitions

• Build strong partnerships with teachers, school officials, and district leaders at Evergreen.
• Create and implement transition plans for the 6th-to-7th and 8th-to-9th grade transitions, and develop age-appropriate summer programming for rising 7th through 9th graders.

Case Management

• Provide direct mentoring, leadership programming, and academic intervention to 70-90 GT students.
• Implement the GT Connect after school program, expand SEL support from LSES into Evergreen, and maintain a whole-student case management approach with ongoing contact around high school transition.

Family Engagement

• Build relationships with families across cultural groups in grades 6-8.
• Organize annual family nights, facilitate listening sessions, and develop communication plans to support families as students move through the GT continuum.

Data and Reporting

• Maintain accurate data in Apricot, uphold data integrity standards, and track measurable outcomes for grant reporting in partnership with the Chief Impact Officer.

Education and Experience

• Undergraduate degree; preferred degree in education, school counseling, or a related field, or
• 1-2 years of experience working with culturally diverse youth, first-generation college students, and coordinating projects/partnerships/mentorship programs at Title I schools.
• Fingerprinting and driving check required.

Preferred Qualifications and Attributes

• Commitment to Equity: Background shows evidence of working toward creating a more inclusive environment, continuous learning, consciousness raising, and representing multiple perspectives.
• Multicultural Experience: Identifies as someone with a multicultural and/or bilingual life experience; able to adapt and blend aspects of multiple cultures.
• Experience working with resilient youth and historically underserved student groups; understands the barriers students face navigating systems not historically designed to serve them.
• Relationship Oriented: Able to communicate effectively to develop, grow, and sustain relationships rooted in trust.
• Respectful: Able to serve as a positive role model by modeling patience and reflective listening.
• Responsible: Able to own tasks within caseload and create appropriate boundaries to hold students accountable to high standards.
• Collaborator: Promotes a spirit of teamwork, builds trust with teammates, advocates, and supports effective collaboration.
• Organized: Able to track student opportunities, application timelines, and corresponding deadlines.
• Data skills: Able to look at data, identify patterns, make suggestions for changes, navigate database software, and understand essentials of data integrity.

Compensation and Benefits

Greater Than strives to facilitate a healthy work/life balance culture. This position can work with their supervisor to create a flexible schedule and remote work options that cause minimal interference with the school schedule. Generous compensation includes:

Pay range: $42,738 – $60,136/year

• 100% employee premium paid for medical/alternative medicine/dental/vision insurance
• Employer paid life, long- and short-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Benefit Plans and Employee Assistance Program
• Generous paid time off: 15 days of accrued vacation, 12 days of sick, and 12 flexible holidays. Extended weekend hours between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Paid time off during winter office closure between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
• Simple IRA retirement plan with employer matching program
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of continuous employment

About Greater Than

Greater Than serves approximately 1,200 students in schools in two distinct communities: Rockwood in East Multnomah County and, as of 2020, Hillsboro—City Center. While the communities are more than 30 miles apart, they share many strengths and are both high-opportunity communities.

Additional Information

Industry: Education Administration Programs

Employment Type: Full-time