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Student Success Coordinator roles sit in a gray zone for H-1B visa sponsorship: universities and colleges are cap-exempt employers, meaning your petition bypasses the annual lottery. Qualifying requires a bachelor's degree in education, counseling, or a related field, and your job duties must meet the specialty occupation standard USCIS applies to student affairs roles.
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STUDENT SUCCESS COORDINATOR - SOD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This position requires a highly organized individual with strong attention to detail, excellent customer service and conflict resolution skills, and proficiency in working with spreadsheets and technology-based systems. The successful candidate must be able to manage multiple tasks efficiently while maintaining accuracy and professionalism.
General Responsibilities
To review, oversee and coordinate all clinical activities for UAB dental school students to ensure they are successful in fulfilling their clinical requirements for graduation while ensuring all dental code of standards are being met.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Develops and makes available patient and daily clinic data and reports to facilitate dental clinic planning and student success.
- Serves as primary contact for dental students for clinic accessibility, management of patients, meeting graduation requirements and ensuring code of standards are being met.
- Assists with planning and implementing annual student success activities with each junior/senior dental class.
- Collaborates with dental students, clinic coordinators, business office and other campus offices, if needed, to provide student support.
- Provides administrative functions associated with the delivery and assessment of dental school code of standards.
- May manage some human resource functions for dental school students, including hiring and maintaining personnel records.
- Assists with the implementation and maintenance of systems to track and record student’s progress, including reporting of all patient needs and activities.
- Assists with attendance and grade monitoring activities to facilitate student achievement, retention and graduation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in a school-based dental program is a plus.
- Dental office experience.
- Knowledge of dental office operations, dental terminology and patient scheduling procedures.
- Familiarity with dental technology, electronic health records, and dental coding/billing processes.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and spreadsheet management, strong computer and technology skills, including the ability to learn and use specialized software systems.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, maintain organization, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy, excellent customer service and interpersonal skills, effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with staff, students, families, dental providers and community partners.
Hourly Range: $19.80 - $32.15
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and two (2) years of related experience required.
- Work experience may substitute for education requirement.
UAB is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex (including pregnancy), genetic information, age, disability, and veteran's status. As required by Title IX, UAB prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to UAB's Assistant Vice President and Senior Title IX Coordinator. The Title IX notice of nondiscrimination is located at uab.edu/titleix.
Primary Location: University
Job Category: Clerical & Administrative
Organization: 329111000 General Dentistry
Employee Status: Regular
Shift: Day/1st Shift
Work Arrangement (final schedule to be determined by the department/hiring manager): Onsite
Description
STUDENT SUCCESS COORDINATOR - SOD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This position requires a highly organized individual with strong attention to detail, excellent customer service and conflict resolution skills, and proficiency in working with spreadsheets and technology-based systems. The successful candidate must be able to manage multiple tasks efficiently while maintaining accuracy and professionalism.
General Responsibilities
To review, oversee and coordinate all clinical activities for UAB dental school students to ensure they are successful in fulfilling their clinical requirements for graduation while ensuring all dental code of standards are being met.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Develops and makes available patient and daily clinic data and reports to facilitate dental clinic planning and student success.
- Serves as primary contact for dental students for clinic accessibility, management of patients, meeting graduation requirements and ensuring code of standards are being met.
- Assists with planning and implementing annual student success activities with each junior/senior dental class.
- Collaborates with dental students, clinic coordinators, business office and other campus offices, if needed, to provide student support.
- Provides administrative functions associated with the delivery and assessment of dental school code of standards.
- May manage some human resource functions for dental school students, including hiring and maintaining personnel records.
- Assists with the implementation and maintenance of systems to track and record student’s progress, including reporting of all patient needs and activities.
- Assists with attendance and grade monitoring activities to facilitate student achievement, retention and graduation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in a school-based dental program is a plus.
- Dental office experience.
- Knowledge of dental office operations, dental terminology and patient scheduling procedures.
- Familiarity with dental technology, electronic health records, and dental coding/billing processes.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and spreadsheet management, strong computer and technology skills, including the ability to learn and use specialized software systems.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, maintain organization, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy, excellent customer service and interpersonal skills, effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with staff, students, families, dental providers and community partners.
Hourly Range: $19.80 - $32.15
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and two (2) years of related experience required.
- Work experience may substitute for education requirement.
UAB is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, sex (including pregnancy), genetic information, age, disability, and veteran's status. As required by Title IX, UAB prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns or questions to UAB's Assistant Vice President and Senior Title IX Coordinator. The Title IX notice of nondiscrimination is located at uab.edu/titleix.
Primary Location: University
Job Category: Clerical & Administrative
Organization: 329111000 General Dentistry
Employee Status: Regular
Shift: Day/1st Shift
Work Arrangement (final schedule to be determined by the department/hiring manager): Onsite
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Student Success Coordinator
Frame your degree as field-specific
USCIS scrutinizes whether a Student Success Coordinator role genuinely requires a specialized degree. Align your transcript and credential evaluation to counseling, higher education, or student development, not general social sciences, to satisfy the specialty occupation standard.
Target cap-exempt institutions first
Colleges, universities, and nonprofit research organizations affiliated with higher education can file H-1B petitions year-round without lottery risk. Filtering your search to these employer types on Migrate Mate eliminates the March registration window as a constraint entirely.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your metro area and experience level. Run your title and location through the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer so you know the floor the employer is legally required to meet.
Document advising hours and caseload size
H-1B RFEs for student affairs roles often challenge whether the position requires a degree rather than general experience. A detailed offer letter naming your student caseload, advising modality, and required theoretical frameworks strengthens the specialty occupation argument at petition stage.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment during offer review
STEM OPT employers must be E-Verify enrolled, and some institutions extend that requirement across all sponsored hires. Ask HR to confirm enrollment status before your start date, a lapse discovered after filing creates status complications USCIS will flag.
Use O*NET to anchor your job description
The O*NET profile for Student Success Coordinators lists the knowledge domains and educational requirements USCIS reviewers reference. Matching your offer letter language to those descriptors reduces the chance of a specialty occupation RFE by anchoring your duties to an established occupational framework.
H-1B Visa Student Success Coordinator: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Student Success Coordinator role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but it requires careful documentation. USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field like counseling, higher education administration, or student development. Roles that accept any bachelor's degree face RFEs. Your employer's offer letter and internal job requirements need to specify the field connection explicitly, not just list preferred qualifications.
Are universities better H-1B sponsors for this role than private companies?
Yes, for a structural reason: colleges, universities, and affiliated nonprofits are cap-exempt H-1B employers. They can file petitions at any point during the year without entering the annual lottery. For a Student Success Coordinator, this means your petition can move forward as soon as your employer is ready, rather than waiting for the April registration window. You can find cap-exempt employers with active H-1B filing history on Migrate Mate.
What happens to my H-1B status if I move from an advising role to a program management role at the same university?
A material change in job duties typically requires an amended H-1B petition before the new role begins. If your title changes, your SOC code shifts, or your responsibilities move significantly away from what was described in the original LCA, your employer needs to file an amendment with USCIS. Staying within the same department doesn't automatically exempt you from this requirement.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a community college if my current sponsoring university eliminates my position?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new cap-exempt employer as soon as the transfer petition is filed, as long as your original petition was approved and you've been in valid H-1B status. Community colleges qualify as cap-exempt institutions. Your 60-day grace period after termination gives you time to secure the new offer and have the petition filed before your status lapses.
Does my master's degree in higher education administration strengthen an H-1B petition for this role?
It does, particularly if the degree is in a field directly tied to student affairs, counseling, or educational leadership. A graduate credential in a closely related discipline makes it harder for USCIS to argue the position doesn't require specialized knowledge. Pair that with an offer letter that maps your specific duties to the theoretical frameworks covered in your degree program to build the strongest possible specialty occupation case.