Student Success Coordinator

Position 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.

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

To be considered for this role, candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Please note that Adams State University is unable to provide sponsorship, transfer, or support for employment visas (such as H-1B, TN ect.) for this specific opening.

Location:  On-site in Alamosa, CO

Salary and Benefits:

The salary range for this position is $39,204-$47,004.  In addition to salary, Adams State University offers a competitive benefits program including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, and retirement savings plans. For detailed benefits information please visit our Human Resources Benefits Page. 

How to Apply: 

All interested candidates must submit application materials electronically through Adams State University’s Workday application portal.

No other format of application material will be accepted.

Completed applications include the following:

• Cover letter

• Resume

• Unofficial transcripts (official transcripts will be necessary at the time of appointment)

• Three professional references, including phone number and email for each

For full consideration, applications should be received by 9/1/2026. Review of applications will begin immediately after this date.

The position will remain open until filled. Applications received after the priority deadline may be reviewed at the discretion of the search committee.

Questions about the position may be directed to Aftin Gillespie at aftingillespie@adams.edu

Adams State University is committed to building and expanding the talent of its professional staff and actively seeks qualified applicants who bring unique perspectives, experiences, skills, and attributes that can augment the perspectives of our current faculty and staff and can contribute to serving and preparing our students to engage and thrive in their learning, leadership, and service.

We strive to create a more representative workforce that mirrors the people who study, work, and lead our institution and welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life, especially members of communities who fall within state and federally protected classes such as: women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, and people with disabilities.

We value qualified candidates, with varied language skills, who have a record of successful experience with varied communities and student populations, and who have a deep understanding of and commitment to the unique geographical and historical characteristics of the place we are situated in and the intersecting perspectives that define our university being a low-income, first-generation, and Hispanic-serving, rural anchor university. Therefore, we seek individuals committed to intentionally supporting students and colleagues who possess these characteristics through their teaching, service, and scholarship.

The successful candidate will join a campus that is dedicated to inclusive excellence and acknowledges Adams State’s purpose to foster the educational goals of its students and the well-being of the surrounding community.

Additional information about the university and the academic mission may be found at www.adams.edu/academics/
 

Disclosures:

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 committed to providing a safe and secure environment for its students, faculty, staff and visitors, and to protecting its funds, property and other assets. Well-informed hiring decisions contribute to this effort. Therefore, Adams State University has adopted a policy on background screening for its prospective, continuing, and returning employees as well as students in certain circumstances. Offers of employment will be contingent upon the completion of an acceptable background check. The information received in response to a background check will be treated as confidential to the extent provided for by law.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Part 106 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including in admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and CFR 106 to Adams State University (ASU) may be directed to ASU's Office of Equal Opportunity, and/or to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education. 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.