Career Readiness Assistant Director

Colorado Community College System (CCCS); Westminster (CO); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Front Range Community College seeks an Assistant Director of Career Readiness to advance student success through strategic leadership of career readiness initiatives. You will connect students with experiential learning, employer networks, and career competency development experiences, collaborating with campus and external partners.

The role emphasizes inclusive career readiness ecosystems, program development, and assessment to support student engagement, retention, and post-graduation

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree with four years of professional experience in career services, student affairs, workforce development, experiential learning, student employment, talent development, or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree with two years of professional experience in career services, student affairs, workforce development, experiential learning, student employment, talent development, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement career readiness initiatives that help students develop, assess, and communicate career competencies.
• Coordinate mentoring, job shadowing, and informational interviewing programs connecting students with alumni and industry professionals.
• Create student employment resources promoting career readiness through on-campus employment, supervisor development, and transferable skill articulation.
• Evaluate student learning and program outcomes to drive continuous improvement and career readiness success.
• Connect students with resources, opportunities, and strategies that support career readiness initiatives.
• Hire, train, supervise and evaluate staff; maintain regular meetings and fostering a supportive environment for growth.
• Provide coaching and onboarding procedures for new hires and coordinate professional development.
• Analyze and report data to evaluate program effectiveness, identify trends, and support continuous improvement.
• Develop assessment strategies and data-driven recommendations to enhance programs and services.
• Support planning and execution of career readiness initiatives and provide statistical reporting for leadership and student needs.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with academic departments, employers, alumni, and community organizations to expand career readiness opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support student success and advance institutional goals.
• Cultivate employer and community relationships that enhance student engagement, experiential learning, and career outcomes.

Skills

Mission, Vision & Values

Student Centeredness

Mentoring & Coaching

Data Usage

Cultural Self-Awareness

Cultural Competence

Equity Mindedness

Operational Planning

Education

Associate’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Title: Career Readiness Assistant Director

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Front Range Community College

Division: Enrollment Management & Student Success

Department:Career Services

Campus: Westminster Campus

Location: Westminster, CO

Salary Range: $63,393-$66,563 annually

Who We Are:

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek.

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.

The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.

At FRCC, employees and leaders bring our values to life through their actions. We collaborate across roles and campuses, seek and value diverse perspectives, follow through on our commitments, and turn thoughtful ideas into meaningful improvements which are measured for success. We take pride in our work, support one another, and make decisions that advance student success, equity, and excellence. We seek people who will actively contribute to this culture and demonstrate these commitments every day.

Job Summary:

The Assistant Director of Career Readiness advances student success by equipping students with the knowledge, experiences, competencies, and professional connections necessary to achieve meaningful career outcomes. Through career education, employer and alumni engagement, experiential learning, and workforce preparation initiatives, the office supports students in developing career readiness competencies and successfully transitioning from college to career.

The Assistant Director of Career Readiness provides strategic leadership, program development, implementation, and assessment for career readiness initiatives that prepare students for long-term career success. This position develops and manages scalable, high-impact programs that connect students with experiential learning opportunities, alumni and employer networks, and career competency development experiences. Through collaboration with campus and external partners, the position advances an inclusive career readiness ecosystem that supports student engagement, retention, workforce preparation, and successful post-graduation outcomes.

This position may provide occasional opportunities for remote work while maintaining a strong campus presence and collaboration with students, faculty, staff, alumni, employers, and community partners.

This position does provide the opportunity to work remotely occasionally (up to two days a week) but does require a strong on campus presence and requires travel to all three FRCC campuses as needed.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Program Implementation and Management

• Design and implement career readiness initiatives that help students develop, assess, and communicate career competencies.
• Coordinate mentoring, job shadowing, and informational interviewing programs/opportunities that connect students with alumni and industry professionals.
• Create student employment resources for students that promote career readiness through on-campus employment, supervisor development, and transferable skill articulation.
• Evaluate student learning and program outcomes to drive continuous improvement and career readiness success.
• Connect students with resources, opportunities, and strategies that support career readiness initiatives

Supervision

• Hire, train,superviseand evaluatestaff.Maintain regular meetings with staff and create a supportive environment for personal and professional growth.
• Provide coaching and ongoing training for teammembersincluding creating onboarding procedures for new hires and coordinating professional development.

Data Collection, Analysis & Reporting

• Analyze and report data to evaluate program effectiveness, identify trends, and support continuous improvement.
• Develop assessment strategies and data-driven recommendations to enhance programs and services.
• Support the planning and execution of career readiness initiatives and provide statistical reporting for leadership and student needs.

Collaboration and Partnership

• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with academic departments, employers, alumni, and community organizations to expand career readiness opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support student success and advance institutional goals.
• Cultivate employer and community relationships that enhance student engagement, experiential learning, and career outcomes.

Competencies/KSAs:

• Mission, Vision & Values: Embraces the mission, vision and values of FRCC. Understands the importance of the work that you do to support institutional goals.
• Student Centeredness:Places the student at the center of your work. Adopts a philosophy that makes the ability to serve the student the cornerstone of the work that you do.
• Mentoring & Coaching:Provides mentoring and coaching to others and seeks mentoring and feedback to improve own performance.
• Data Usage:Looks at the data within the department, paying particular attention to what the data shows about the department's performance and student impact. Works with the next level supervisor to brainstorm changes that can be implemented to improve a program or service that the department provides.
• Cultural Self-Awareness:Willing to examine own beliefs and acknowledge own biases and how they have impacted or may impact the ability to serve students.
• Cultural Competence:Recognize the need to become knowledgeable about the ways to communicate and support students of other backgrounds. Change approach to reflect the new learning.
• Equity Mindedness:Learn to view department operations through an equity lens. Be willing to call attention to processes that lead to inequity in serving students. Understand the College's equity goals and how your role supports FRCC's ability to achieve those goals.
• Operational Planning:Have an understanding and knowledge of the college's various strategic plans and understand how your work supports each of them. Understand the department's expectations to find proactive ways to support the goals of the department.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree and four (4) years professional experience progressively responsible experience in career services, student affairs, workforce development, experiential learning, student employment, talent development, or related field.

OR

• Bachelor’s degree and two (2) years professional experience progressively responsible experience in career services, student affairs, workforce development, experiential learning, student employment, talent development, or related field.

Selection Process:

The selection process for this position will be conducted through a competitive, merit-based evaluation of all qualified applicants. Preliminary screening will be based on the completed application package submitted by the candidate.

Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of October 12 at 11:55pm.

This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.

Additional Information/Benefits:

Salary Information: The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate’s education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position’s scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value.

Benefits Information: For information about benefits for Administrative, Professional and Technical Employees and Faculty, please see the Front Range Community College Benefits page.

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