TRIO Student Success Advisor
TRIO Student Success Advisor
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Job Description
ACC Careers: Where You Can Move Mountains
Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains sits one of the oldest community colleges in Colorado Arapahoe Community College. With a rich history of educational excellence ACC embraces a culture that values diversity individualized support and unwavering commitment to student success without exception.
Job Summary
TRIO Student Support Services is a federally funded program that serves students to overcome obstacles to education including limited income first generation to college and disability. The primary objective of this position is to increase the persistence graduation and transfer of SSS participants. The TRIO Student Success Advisor provides leadership for the TRIO program through development of programming is responsible for assigned program administrative functions and budget functions that support student programs along with providing intentional and holistic advising to a cohort of SSS participants. Responsible for data tracking and developing the Department of Education annual progress report. The TRIO Student Success Advisor represents the office across ACC.
The strongest candidate will be comfortable leaning into the following characteristics:
Passion for Student Support & Advocacy: Deep commitment and knowledge of working with first-generation low-income and students with disabilities.
Partnering Skills: Ability to build trust with students faculty and staff.
Programming skills: Ability to proactively plan organize and engage students in academic support transfer awareness and cultural activities.
- Provides intentional and holistic advising service for TRIO SSS participants including academic financial aid financial literacy transfer career and personal development advising.
- Design develop and deliver TRIO SSS orientations interviews and needs assessments of prospective TRIO SSS participants.
- Responsible for programmatic leadership todevelopandassess for outcomesacademic support activities such as tutoring multimedia learning tools and academic study groups.
- Coordinate and teach TRIO SSS Summer Bridge an introduction to college course provided to new SSS-eligible students preparing for their first semester at ACC.
- Serve as the administrative staff responsible forTRIOday to dayoperations budget andfiscal management dataintegrityannual performance reporting customer service and quality assurance.
- Collects interprets andutilizesdata to assess student needs assess student learningmonitorstudent performanceassessintentional and intrusive advisingefforts and evaluate programming.
- Hire manage andsuperviseTRIO Student Support Servicesstudent staffand part-time tutors.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree from an accredited institution.
- Two (2) years of experience in a higher education settingin postsecondary academic advisingorprogram coordination preferably working with underrepresented student populations including Students of Color low-income first-generation and students with disabilities.
- Two (2) years of experience engaging diverse student populations.
- Experience with event planning and coordination.
- Knowledge of budget management and effective promotions.
- Knowledge of student development theory techniques and research associated with engaging diverse student populations.
- Knowledge of inclusive excellence and cross-cultural interpersonal skills.
- Ability toestablishgoals and assess outcomes for programs and activities.
- Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Valid drivers license.
Preferred
- Bilingual
- Familiarity with the mission and operation of Federal TRIO projects.
Application Instructions
All applicants must submit:
- Resume
- Detailed letter of interest (cover letter) addressing the job announcement. Please include any experiences you may have embedding equity and inclusion in your work see below.
Additional Information
This position is grant funded through August 31 2030. Continuation of the position is contingent upon continued funding.
Reach out to us at if you have any questions.
ACC seeks applicants who understand and have first-hand experience working with diverse populations which may include but are not limited to historically marginalized populations such as people of color LGBTQ community members veterans first generation graduates and people with disabilities.
Notice to all Applicants
- Final candidate will be subject to successful completion of a background check and if applicable a motor vehicle record review.
- Former employees of the Colorado Community College System or one of its 13 colleges who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose this information in their application material.
- Final candidate may be required to submit unofficial transcripts to verify education.
- Direct deposit of payroll is a condition of employment.
- Arapahoe Community College participates in E-Verify.
- All ACC employees except student employees contribute to Colorado PERA at a fixed percentage of their earnings and do not contribute to Social Security.
- Finalist must be willing to make Colorado their primary workplace.
CCCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The Colorado Community College System believes when all human qualities are regarded with dignity and respect and when everyone has access to the individualized support they need all will have the opportunity to all aspects of the employment process decisions are made based on merit competence performance and business need without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy creed ancestry national origin marital status genetic information military status or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our Accommodations and Non-Discrimination policies plus other helpful information can be found publicly at
Reasonable Accommodation Statement
Arapahoe Community College provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process or during the course of employment contact Angela Johnson Executive Director of Human Resources at or .
For information regarding Arapahoe Community College Security including Clery Act / Crime Statistics for the campuses and surrounding area please see the Arapahoe Community College Annual Security Report. For a hard copy report please contact the ACC Campus Police Department at or Room M2600 at 5900 South Santa Fe Drive Littleton Colorado 80120.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
