Program Mentor, Pre-Licensure Nursing | Full-time Faculty (Salaried) – Leavitt School of Health

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

This remote position typically starts out at $50,000 to $56,000 per year.

Position Overview:

Program Mentors use specialized program content and career expertise to coach and guide students through programs and support career competency development. As faculty members, they are also expert in the WGU model and services and strive to develop and deepen individual students lifelong learning skills. Program Mentors are assigned a group of students and are accountable concerning each student's academic progress and success, typically from program start to finish. Program Mentors are responsive to student needs and vary the type, length, method, and intensity of support best matched to a learner’s pace, strengths, and goals.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree from an accredited institution in nursing or a related field
• Compact RN license (unencumbered) within employee's state of residency
• Three years of adult learner support, mentoring, coaching, instruction etc.
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully with diverse learner profiles
• Background in distance education and with online students very helpful
• Excellent organizational, written, and verbal communication skill needed
• Able to work 40 hours/week, with 10 hours outside normal business hours

Physical Requirements:

• Sit/stand for extended periods working at a computer
• Infrequently travel to meetings up to 10% of time
• Occasionally lift up to 15 pounds at once

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Acts as a steward for carrying out WGU’s mission and strategic vision.
• The Program Mentor must demonstrate a high level of commitment to student success as evidenced in goal setting, student outcomes, and student notes. Student success, by MSS standards, includes identifying urgent student need as displayed by LCD and Caseload tools as well as notes and documentation for each student, responding to emails and phone calls in a timely manner, and overall attention to urgent student need.
• Offers direct, comprehensive support, coaching, and guidance to a load of assigned students.
• Provides WGU and program level expertise to students and maintains that expertise through ongoing development activities.
• Fosters student learning through innovative and motivational teaching and coaching practices.
• Responds with urgency to meet student needs and communicates professionally and respectfully with students and all other members of the WGU community.
• Maintains a consistent, student-friendly schedule with a selection of outside hours to accommodate various student needs.
• Monitors the progress of assigned students and offers proactive support and outreach to those students.
• Uses technology-based teaching and communication platforms to aid students in their academic progress.
• Collaborates with other professionals within the university to promote a positive, student-obsessed atmosphere.
• Consistently exhibits WGU Leadership Principles.
• Maintains knowledge within assigned college.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Well organized, conscientious, and thorough with detail.
• Must demonstrate technological competency:  Data entry, email, calendar, word processing, and database programs.
• Extraordinary customer service and communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills, with ability to present information clearly, concisely, and accurately; friendly, persuasive speaking and writing style.

Disclaimer:

This information does not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications that are required of the employee to do this job, and such, including job location, is subject to change without notice.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
 

How to apply: apply online

Full-time Regular Positions (FT classification, standard working hours = 40)

This is a full-time, regular position that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

The University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.