Job Details
Position Summary: The SSS Academic Coordinator is primarily dedicated to academic advising, grade tracking, maintaining academic progress, and coordinating cognitive skill development. This role directly targets the academic barriers facing underrepresented students, ensuring student complete the academic and career goals.
Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Proactive Academic Advising and Intervention: Execute proactive academic advising models utilizing the university’s Workday data system to review student records, academic schedules, and cumulative GPAs. Conduct monthly mandatory advising meetings with participants to connect with academic advising to map out academic schedules and evaluate milestone metrics.
- Early Warning and Grade Monitoring: Coordinate the project’s response to the university’s “Academic SOS” early alert system. Actively track mid-term and monthly grade reports, indicating grades below a “C” to deploy immediate corrective action plans and academic counseling.
- Plan of Action (POA) Management: Collaborate with each participant to build a structured, dynamic individualized Plan of Action (POA). Conduct continuous monthly progress reviews to adjust academic strategies and align milestones with graduation timelines dynamically.
- Tutor Hiring and GTLC Early Intervention Collaboration: Mage the hiring process for student tutors and establish a direct collaboration with the Grizzly Testing and Learning Center (GTLC). Coordinate seamlessly with the GTLC to implement proactive early interventions and ensure SSS students' access to support.
- Curriculum & Assessment Development: Design, review, and implement academic assessment standards and placement for participants.
- Data Entry & Compliance Tracking: Accurately log advising notes, contract hours, and academic data into the BLUMEN student database to compile tracking metrics for federal Annual Performance Reports (APR).
- Recruitment & Summer Scholars Bridge Program: Support the intake, interview, and 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 or a closely related field
- Experience in postsecondary educational standards, student assessment models, and database management.
- Minimum 1 year of experience coordinating student assessment, student advising projects, and academic curriculum development.
- Minimum 1 year of experience in direct college-level academic advising or equivalent experience, and collaboration across campus support networks.
- Experience in implementing retention strategies designed to improve cumulative GPAs.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Education or a closely related field
- 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/
Organization
Adams State University is located in the beautiful San Luis Valley between the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan mountain ranges. The vast San Luis Valley is designated the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area. We are, at 7,500 feet, in the largest alpine valley in the United States. Alamosa is located approximately 3.5 hours from Denver, 1.5 hours from Taos, New Mexico, and 2.5 hours from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Alamosa has a population of 9,500.
Adams State University is a state-supported regional comprehensive university in Alamosa, Colorado, United States. Adams State is Colorado’s premier Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and is also a Minority Serving Institution (MSI) with over 54% of our students representing diverse backgrounds. We have a high percentage of first-generation students with an equally high percentage of students who are Pell eligible. The University offers undergraduate programs in physical and social sciences, kinesiology, fine arts, business and nursing, and specializes in educator curricula in several disciplines. Adams State also offers graduate degrees in history, art, 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, both in participatory sports and in athletics educator training as well as a thriving theater and musical performance opportunities. Students play a major role in shared governance through AS&F. Click here to learn more about Adams State and our surrounding areas.