SSS Transfer/Career Specialist (grant-funded)

Enterprise State Community College; Enterprise (AL); On-site; USD 47,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Enterprise State Community College seeks a Transfer/Career Specialist for the Enterprise Campus to assist in assessing potential SSS participants, provide counseling, coordinate campus visits, and maintain information on financial aid resources. The role includes advising on majors, developing career workshops, and building relationships with local employers to aid student placement.

The position emphasizes individual counseling, group workshops, and collaboration with the SSS Project Director.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in guidance, counseling or a related field.
• Experience working with diverse student populations from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Experience in providing student affairs programming.
• Excellent communication skills and abilities to work with diverse constituencies.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in advising in a college or related setting.
• Experience in working with senior colleges is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Director in identifying students eligible for SSS and complete initial assessments.
• Identify SSS students needing transfer information and financial resources to transfer to a senior institution.
• Assist SSS students in choosing a major and administering interest inventories.
• Conduct individual counseling sessions with SSS students to determine transfer needs.
• Conduct career awareness workshops for all transfer-oriented SSS students.
• Disseminate information about transfer institutions, financial resources and admissions requirements.
• Maintain, update and disseminate a list of key financial and admission personnel at senior institutions.
• Facilitate eligible transfer student visits to senior institutions.
• Create and maintain a library of materials for four-year colleges and career information
• Maintain contact with admission and scholarship representatives from four-year institutions and stay abreast of admission and scholarship requirements to their associated institutions
• Track SSS students who have transferred to a four-year institution and provide a report each semester to the Program Director.
• Maintain accurate documentation of services provided.
• Fulfill other duties and responsibilities assigned by the Director and/or the Dean of Students.

Skills

Flexible hours

Communication skills

Relationship building

Diversity awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in guidance/counseling

Job description

The Transfer/Career Specialist (Enterprise Campus) responsibilities are to assist in the assessment of potential SSS participants, complete comprehensive needs assessments for participants; identify those participants requiring information about the transfer process, provide counseling; coordinate campus visits for potential transferees; maintain and provide current information related to financial aid resources, including key contacts, facilitate the transfer process; assist students with selecting majors, provide academic and career advising, develop career workshops; develop and maintain relationships with local employers to assist students in career; track all transfer and career placements post program completion; maintain accurate documentation. Assist students in completing job applications, writing resumes, and preparing for job interviews. The Transfer/Career specialist organizes campus visits and cultural activities for participants under the direction of the Student Support Services Project Director.

• Assist the Director in identifying students eligible for Student Support Services (SSS) and to complete initial assessments on these students.
• Identify (SSS) students in need of both transfer information and financial resources to enable them to transfer to a senior institution.
• Assist SSS students in choosing a major and administering interest inventories.
• Conduct individual counseling sessions with SSS students to determine individual transfer needs.
• Conduct career awareness workshops for all transfer oriented SSS students. Prepare materials for posting to the SSS websites.
• Disseminate information about transfer institutions, financial resources and admissions requirements.
• Maintain, update and disseminate a list of key financial and admission personnel at senior institutions.
• Facilitate eligible transfer student (group and individual) visitations to selected senior institutions.
• Create and maintain a library of materials for four-year colleges and career information
• Maintain contact with admission and scholarship representatives from four-year institutions and stay abreast of admission and scholarship requirements to their associated institutions
• Track SSS students who have transferred to a four-year institution and provide a report each semester to the Program Director.
• Maintain accurate documentation of services provided.
• Fulfill other duties and responsibilities assigned by the Director and/or the Dean of Students.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to work flexible hours as needed.
• Effective oral, auditory and written communication skills are required.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, other employees, and the public is required.
• Ability to work with diverse populations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in guidance, counseling or a related field.
• Experience working with diverse student populations, including those from physically, economically, and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Experience in providing student affairs programming.
• Excellent communication skills and abilities to work with diverse constituencies.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in advising in a college or related setting.
• Experience in working with senior colleges is preferred.

POSITION AVAILABLE:

October 2026

SALARY:

Salary Schedule E3 03 $47,029-$65,218 based upon the Alabama Community College System Salary Schedule to be determined by the applicant’s education and years of applicable experience. Applicant acknowledges that if selected for the position that applicant’s placement on the applicable salary schedule will be dependent upon the verified information provided. *This is a grant funded position. Duration and Funding is finite.*

POSITION DEADLINE:

Applications must be received by October 6, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.

In accordance with Alabama Community College System policy and guidelines, the applicant chosen for employment will be required to sign a consent form for a criminal background check. Employment will be contingent upon receipt of a clearance notification from a criminal background check. Enterprise State Community College is an active participant in the Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-verify). E-verify electronically confirms an employee's eligibility to work in the United States as required by the Department of Homeland Security.

Enterprise State Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of the Alabama Community College System, including all postsecondary community and technical colleges under the control of the Alabama Community College Board of Trustees, that no employee or applicant for employment or promotion, on the basis of any impermissible criterion or characteristic including, without limitation, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, disability, sex, age, or any other protected class as defined by federal and state law, shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program, activity, or employment. Enterprise State Community College will make reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled applicants or employees.

NOTE: Statements included in this description are intended to be representative of the duties and responsibilities of this job and are not to be interpreted as being all inclusive. The employee may be assigned other duties that are not specifically included.

The College reserves the right to withdraw this job announcement at any time prior to the awarding. More than one position in the same job classification may be filled from the applicants for this position should another vacancy occur during the search process.