Career and Success Navigator

Rappahannock Community College; Warsaw (VA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Rappahannock Community College seeks a full-time Career and Success Navigator to advise students on career planning and progression across RCC’s campuses and sites. The role partners with admissions, advising, financial aid, disability services, tutoring and a food pantry to support student success.

The Navigator will train faculty on career readiness, coordinate employer connections and use technology to track student outcomes and milestones. Strong communication and data skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in an educational, workforce development, career or student services setting.
• Ability to build positive relationships with four-year colleges, VCCS partners and professional organizations.
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication and organizational skills.
• Proven ability in project or event planning, including coordinating college fairs.
• Ability to work with diverse student, faculty and staff populations.
• Ability to research, analyze and interpret data for reports.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and maintain confidentiality.
• Proficiency with PC-based software including Word and Excel and ability to apply policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Develops and delivers a comprehensive program of career advising aligned with RCC’s enrollment management goals.
• Collaborates with campus stakeholders to connect students to admissions, advising, financial aid and other services.
• Coaches students on time management, study and note-taking; assists in academic, financial, personal and career planning.
• Supports faculty integration of career readiness skills and coordinates training for advisors and navigators.
• Identifies and engages employer partners to promote career readiness and program alignment.
• Tracks and reports student success metrics to support enrollment milestones.

Skills

Educational setting experience

Relationship building

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Event planning

Data analysis

Teamwork

Judgment and confidentiality

PC-based software

Policy interpretation

Tools

Word

Excel

Job description

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.

Special Assignments

May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.

KSA’s/Required 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.

Operation of a State Vehicle

Yes

Supervises Employees

No

Required Travel

Travel between campuses and sites as needed.

Posting Details

• Working Title | Career and Success Navigator
• Role Title | Education Support Spec III
• Role Code |
• FLSA | Exempt
• Pay Band | 04
• Position Number | 278R0029
• Agency | Rappahannock Community College
• Division | Rappahannock Community College (Div)
• Work Location | Richmond County - 159
• Hiring Range | The salary range will be $50,000 – $55,000, commensurate with experience.
• Emergency/Essential Personnel | No
• EEO Category | 2-Professionals
• Full Time or Part Time | Full Time
• Does this position have telework options? -Telework options are subject to change based on business needs- |
• Does this position have a bilingual or multilingual skill requirement or preference? |
• Work Schedule | To be determined.
• Sensitive Position | No
• 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.

Posting Detail Information

• Posting Number | CLS_4853P
• Recruitment Type | General Public - G
• Number of Vacancies | 1
• Position End Date (if temporary) |
• Job Open Date | 11/05/2026
• Job Close Date | 11/19/2026
• Open Until Filled |
• Agency Website | www.rappahannock.edu
• Contact Name |
• Email | [e-mail]
• Phone Number |
• Background Check Statement Disclaimer | The selected candidate’s offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background investigation, which may include: fingerprint checks, local agency checks, employment verification, verification of education, credit checks (relevant to employment). Additionally, selected candidates may be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest. For more information, please follow this link: http://ethics.dls.virginia.gov/
• EEO Statement | The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, political affiliation, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other non-merit factors.
• ADA Statement | The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and complies with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA and ADAAA), to provide, reasonable accommodation to applicants in need of access to the application, interviewing, and selection processes when requested.
• E-Verify Statement | VCCS uses E‑Verify to check employee eligibility to work in the United States. You will be required to complete an I‑9 form and provide documentation of your identity for employment purposes.
• Quicklink for Posting | https://jobs.vccs.edu/postings/102855