Success Center Coordinator

AIRUM; Alamosa, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

Retirement plans

Job summary

Adams State University in Alamosa, CO, seeks a SSS Student Success Coordinator to onboard students, navigate financial aid, and lead peer-mentorship programs. The role targets social barriers to improve campus belonging and long-term persistence.

Responsibilities include designing workshops, supervising three Peer Mentors, guiding financial aid literacy, and coordinating career exploration with Career Services, while tracking outcomes in the BLUMEN database.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Education, Counseling, Social Work, or related field.
• Experience addressing equity, socio-emotional barriers, and undergraduate retention.
• Minimum 1 year advising college-level populations.
• Experience coordinating across multiple student services divisions (Financial Aid, Housing, Career Services, and Counseling Services).
• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate workshops addressing non-cognitive needs.
• Recruit, train, and supervise three part-time peer mentors.
• Provide clear, proactive financial aid guidance and host literacy workshops.
• Deliver coordinated career counseling with Career Services.
• Assist participants with Plans of Action and monthly check-ins.
• Coordinate student activities and events to boost campus engagement.
• Track participation and mentorship hours in the BLUMEN database.

Skills

Non-cognitive strategy

Mentor supervision

Financial literacy

Career counseling

Student mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Education/Counseling/Social Work

Master’s degree in Education/Counseling/Social Work

Tools

BLUMEN database

Student data systems

Job description

Position Summary: Job Description Summary The SSS Student Success Coordinator is primarily dedicated to student onboarding, financial aid navigation, career exploration, and leading peer-mentorship programs. This role directly targets the non-cognitive and social barriers facing underrepresented students by fostering personal strengths-awareness, self-regulation, collaborative relationships, and constructive decision-making to ensure a deep sense of campus belonging and long-term persistence.

Job Description Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Non-Cognitive Strategy Development: Design and facilitate workshops addressing non-cognitive critical needs, including study environments, time management, self-advocacy, test anxiety, and building a growth mindset among student participants.
• Mentor Supervision and Training: Recruit, train, and oversee three (3) part-time Peer Mentors. Coordinate both small-group and individual motivational mentoring options to guide incoming students through institutional protocols, campus procedures, and social integration.
• Financial Literacy & Guidance: Provide clear, proactive financial aid guidance. Collaborate directly with the ASU Financial Aid Office and the School of Business to host required financial/economic literacy workshops covering debt management, FAFSA completion, credit monitoring, and loan repayment structures.
• Career and Major Exploration Counseling: Partner closely with the ASU Career Services department to deliver coordinated career counseling that assists undecided or first-generation students in selecting appropriate majors early, preventing extended timelines to graduation. Collaborate with Career Services to implement career exploration, while directly coordinating sophomore leadership components, service-learning modules, graduate school preparation workshops, and off‑campus site visits.
• Plan of Action (POA) Support: Assist participants in establishing the career, personal, and financial literacy objectives within their individualized Plans of Action (POAs). Review student engagement data during monthly check‑ins to make sure students balance work‑family commutes with academic commitments.
• Campus Engagement and Event Coordination: Coordinate student activities and co‑curricular programs to boost campus involvement. Address cultural dissonance and demographic isolation by providing identity‑safe spaces, networking environments, and links to institutional resources like the ASU Counseling Center.
• Data Collection & Participant Logging: Systemically track, monitor, and record student participation rates, event attendance, and mentorship contact hours within the BLUMEN database to ensure alignment with TRIO grant metrics.
• Recruitment & Summer Scholars Bridge Program: Support the intake, interview rubric evaluations, and identification of the 175 grant participants. Collaborate with residence hall staff and summer instructors during the 3-week Summer Scholars Bridge Program to ease the transition of new students.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Counseling, Social Work, or related field.
• Experience addressing postsecondary educational standards, equity policies, and socio‑emotional and structural barriers that directly impact undergraduate retention.
• Minimum 1 year of professional experience advising college‑level populations or equivalent.
• Minimum 1 year of experience collaborating and coordinating alongside multiple student service divisions (such as Financial Aid, Housing, Career Services, and Counseling Services).
• Working knowledge of economic/financial literacy frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Education, Counseling, Social Work, or related field.
• Experience in database and student data systems.
• Individuals from backgrounds similar to the target population (low‑income, first‑generation, or individuals with disabilities).
• Bilingual Spanish/English.

Location:

On‑site in Alamosa, CO.

Salary and Benefits:

Salary range: $39,204-$47,004.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• disability insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• life insurance
• retirement savings plans

To be considered for this role, candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Adams State University is unable to provide sponsorship, transfer, or support for employment visas (such as H‑1B, TN ect.) for this specific opening.

In compliance with the Immigration Control Act of 1968 candidates for positions must provide proof of eligibility to work before an offer of employment can be made final.

Adams State University is a state‑supported, regional comprehensive university located in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado and the city of Alamosa. As the state’s premier Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), over 50 percent of its undergraduate students represent racially diverse backgrounds. A high percentage of undergraduate students are first‑generation and Pell eligible. The university offers undergraduate programs in the arts and humanities, physical and natural sciences, mechanical engineering and computer science, social sciences, kinesiology, fine arts, business, and nursing, and specializes in educator preparation in several disciplines. Adams State also offers graduate degrees in cultural resource management, public administration, music education, kinesiology, higher education administration and leadership, history, business (MBA), and educator programs, including counselor education; the university also has a doctoral (PhD) program in counselor education. The university has an active athletic program. The Adams State Grizzlies athletic teams compete under the auspices of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).

Support resources for sexual misconduct, ASU's sexual misconduct policies, contact information for the Adams State University's Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, as well as a detailed procedure for filing a grievance due to discrimination on the basis of sex may be found online at https://www.adams.edu/administration/oeo/reporting-sexual-harassment/. These procedures also describe the University's response to reports and/or complaints of sex discrimination or sexual harassment. Adams State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Applications are sought from all qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, disability, and, as covered by law, veteran status. In addition, University policies prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation including transgender status and gender expression, marital status, and parental status.