College Advisor
On-siteDenver, Colorado, United States
Denver, Colorado, United StatesOn-sitePart TimeMedium
Part TimeMedium
Job Summary
Oversee operations of a high impact Future Center supporting student enrollment in technical, two-year, and four-year pathways. Design and implement college readiness services through individual advising, group facilitation, and presentations covering college exposure, personal development, academic success, and financial literacy. Lead recruitment aligned with roster objectives and collaborate with school administration, counselors, and community partners to coordinate comprehensive readiness services for grades 9-12. Provide ongoing advocacy for student academic and personal development while analyzing daily Salesforce reports to drive data-informed programming priorities. Maintain collaborative partnerships with stakeholders, manage volunteers, and oversee the Future Center budget with accurate financial reporting.
Required Qualifications
- Passionate, driven individual with the desire to learn, grow, and excel
- Commitment to the philosophy and mission of DSF
- Ability to model, live, and reinforce DSF's core values of equity, innovation, leadership, learning, relationships, and integrity
- Experience or ability to guide students through the college readiness, application, and enrollment process using a relationship-based, holistic approach
- Ability to support students' overall well-being and long-term success
- Ability to drive early engagement through college representative presentations, academic major exploration, job shadows, interest and aptitude surveys
- Ability to align career interest with academic pathways
- Ability to cultivate essential skills including relationship building, goal setting, decision making, accountability, navigating systems and effective communication
- Ability to equip students for academic and extracurricular success
- Ability to demystify college affordability with comprehensive support in financial aid navigation, scholarship strategy and application support
- Ability to lead the timely recruitment of qualified students in alignment with roster/program objectives and deadlines
- Ability to initiate collaboration with school administration, counselors, staff and community organizations to coordinate and deliver comprehensive college and career readiness services for grades 9-12
- Ability to provide ongoing support and advocacy for students' academic and personal development
- Ability to remain current on evolving best practices and apply researched based strategies to deliver high impact college access advising for diverse, first-generation, and limited income students
- Ability to ensure timely, accurate tracking of student engagement related to college access and career activities, services, progress toward college enrollment, mental health and resiliency
- Ability to analyze student level Salesforce reports and dashboard daily to establish data-informed daily, weekly, monthly and annual programming and student outreach priorities and strategies
- Ability to identify, cultivate and maintain collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders including students, families, high school staff, district partners, staff from partner organizations, community members, and funders
- Ability to create a school-based marketing plan to raise student awareness and participation in all DSF programming including the DSF Scholarship program
- Ability to actively engage in Staff, Program, and Advisor meetings, contribute to planning and facilitation when appropriate, and manage DSF volunteers/interns
- Commitment to continuous learning, growth, and the improvement of program outcomes
- Ability to oversee the Future Center budget with accuracy; monitor expenditures, ensure alignment with spending guidelines, and deliver clear, timely financial reporting
- Ability to deliver high impact college access advising for diverse, first-generation, and limited income students pursuing a technical certificate, 2-year degree, and/or a 4-year degree
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with diverse, first-generation, and limited income students
- Experience delivering college access advising for technical certificate, 2-year degree, and/or 4-year degree students
- Experience managing DSF volunteers/interns
- Experience creating school-based marketing plans
- Experience analyzing student level Salesforce reports and dashboards
- Experience overseeing budgets and delivering financial reporting
- Experience collaborating with school administration, counselors, staff and community organizations
- Experience providing financial aid navigation and scholarship strategy support
- Experience conducting college representative presentations, academic major exploration, job shadows, and interest and aptitude surveys
- Experience facilitating group lessons and presentations strategically grouped by grade-level
- Experience conducting early exposure, application support, career advising, college visits, admissions engagement, financial aid guidance, scholarship assistance, and college enrollment support
- Experience providing mental health and resiliency support
- Experience with data-informed daily, weekly, monthly and annual programming and student outreach priorities and strategies
- Experience in relationship building, goal setting, decision making, accountability, navigating systems and effective communication
- Experience in driving early engagement through college representative presentations, academic major exploration, job shadows, interest and aptitude surveys
- Experience in aligning career interest with academic pathways
- Experience in cultivating essential skills including relationship building, goal setting, decision making, accountability, navigating systems and effective communication
- Experience in equipping students for academic and extracurricular success
- Experience in demystifying college affordability with comprehensive support in financial aid navigation, scholarship strategy and application support
- Experience in leading the timely recruitment of qualified students in alignment with roster/program objectives and deadlines
- Experience in initiating collaboration with school administration, counselors, staff and community organizations to coordinate and deliver comprehensive college and career readiness services for grades 9-12
- Experience in providing ongoing support and advocacy for students' academic and personal development
- Experience in remaining current on evolving best practices and applying researched based strategies to deliver high impact college access advising for diverse, first-generation, and limited income students
- Experience in ensuring timely, accurate tracking of student engagement related to college access and career activities, services, progress toward college enrollment, mental health and resiliency
- Experience in identifying, cultivating and maintaining collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders including students, families, high school staff, district partners, staff from partner organizations, community members, and funders
- Experience in creating a school-based marketing plan to raise student awareness and participation in all DSF programming including the DSF Scholarship program
- Experience in actively engaging in Staff, Program, and Advisor meetings, contributing to planning and facilitation when appropriate, and managing DSF volunteers/interns
- Experience in overseeing the Future Center budget with accuracy; monitoring expenditures, ensuring alignment with spending guidelines, and delivering clear, timely financial reporting
- Experience in delivering high impact college access advising for diverse, first-generation, and limited income students pursuing a technical certificate, 2-year degree, and/or a 4-year degree
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