Career and Success Navigator

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Virginia; On-site; USD 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Rappahannock Community College (RCC) seeks applicants for our Career and Success Navigator opening. This is a full-time, restricted, classified staff position, with excellent benefits. Continuation depends on funding.

The salary range will be $50,000 – $55,000, commensurate with experience. The Navigator develops and delivers a comprehensive program of career advising in support of RCC’s enrollment and student success goals.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an educational, workforce development, career services, student services or related setting.
• Ability to establish positive working relationships with four-year universities, VCCS partners and professional organizations.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication (oral and written), and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of project or event planning, including the ability to organize activities such as college fairs.
• Ability to work successfully with diverse student, faculty, and staff populations.
• Ability to conduct research, and analyze and interpret data for reports.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to exercise appropriate judgment and maintain confidentiality regarding a variety of sensitive information.
• Proficient in the use of PC-based software including Word and Excel.
• Ability to interpret and apply policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• The Career and Success Navigator develops and delivers a comprehensive program of career advising in support of RCC‘s college and strategic enrollment management goals.
• This Navigator role collaborates with campus stakeholders to connect students to services that help them complete their programs, such as admissions, advising, financial aid, disability services, tutoring, and food pantry assistance.
• The Career and Transfer Navigator provides coaching to develop student time management, study, and note taking skills, and advises on academic, financial, personal and career planning needs and goals.
• This includes developing student plans for supportive academic assistance and referrals to other helpful services.
• This position supports faculty integration of career readiness skills into courses.
• The Career and Transfer Navigator facilitates training on career competencies and best practices for faculty advisors and other navigators, and helps identify and engage employer partners aligned with programs to promote career readiness.
• Lastly, this role uses various technologies to track and report on individual and program-wide student success metrics and to support students in meeting key enrollment and success milestones.

Job description

Title: Career and Success Navigator

Agency: Rappahannock Community College

Location: Richmond County - 159

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: The salary range will be $50,000 – $55,000, commensurate with experience.

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Job Description:

Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with access to fresh local seafood and water activities. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs. RCC’s annualized enrollment of 3,900 credit students in 2025-2026 and almost 890 workforce and community development students are supported by almost 140 full-time employees and over 200 part-time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and five satellite sites.

Are you someone who wants to help students achieve their educational and professional dreams?

RCC seeks applicants for our Career and Success Navigator opening. This is a full-time, restricted, classified staff position, with an excellent benefits package. Continuation of the position is contingent upon funding. The salary range will be $50,000 – $55,000, commensurate with experience.

The Career and Success Navigator develops and delivers a comprehensive program of career advising in support of RCC‘s college and strategic enrollment management goals. Strategic enrollment management encompasses the student journey from connection, entry and progress, through to completion and transition to a career.

This Navigator role collaborates with campus stakeholders to connect students to services that help them complete their programs, such as admissions, advising, financial aid, disability services, tutoring, and food pantry assistance. The Career and Success Navigator provides coaching to develop student time management, study, and note taking skills, and advises on academic, financial, personal and career planning needs and goals. This includes developing student plans for supportive academic assistance and referrals to other helpful services.

This position supports faculty integration of career readiness skills into courses. The Career and Transfer Navigator facilitates training on career competencies and best practices for faculty advisors and other navigators, and helps identify and engage employer partners aligned with programs to promote career readiness.

Lastly, this role uses various technologies to track and report on individual and program-wide student success metrics and to support students in meeting key enrollment and success milestones.

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth’s Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly called a Certificate of Disability) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans may also apply via the AHP if they also provide an AHP Letter. To request an AHP Letter, use this link: https://www.dars.virginia.gov/drs/cpid/PWContact.aspx or call DARS at 800-552-5019, or DBVI at 800-622-2155.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience working in an educational, workforce development, career services, student services or related setting.
• Ability to establish positive working relationships with four-year universities, VCCS partners and professional organizations.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication (oral and written), and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of project or event planning, including the ability to organize activities such as college fairs.
• Ability to work successfully with diverse student, faculty, and staff populations.
• Ability to conduct research, and analyze and interpret data for reports.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to exercise appropriate judgment and maintain confidentiality regarding a variety of sensitive information.
• Proficient in the use of PC-based software including Word and Excel.
• Ability to interpret and apply policies and procedures.

Additional Considerations:

• Working knowledge of career, admissions and transfer advising processes and ability to promote college success.
• Experience working with faculty to promote college resources.
• Knowledge of career or transfer advising theories and techniques.
• Experience in career, advising, transfer, and/or strategic planning.
• Experience with online advising management systems.
• Knowledge of college resources to include financial aid, student services, and academic programs.
• Experience with college searches, transfer admissions applications, scholarship applications, personal statements, and interviewing techniques.
• Experience using technology-based student success platforms.