Student Services Assistant (TRiO)

Metropolitan Community College comprises five campuses on the Missouri side of the Greater Kansas City area 47 major buildings and about 550 acres in all: MCC-Blue River, located in Independence, Missouri; MCC-Longview located in Lee's Summit, Missouri, MCC-Maple Woods located in the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri; MCC-Online and MCC-Penn Valley, located in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.

MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, several programs have specific accreditations as well.

***MCC does not provide employer-paid sponsorships.

Job Summary

Incumbents provide basic information and services to students and prospective students in support of the TRIO Educational Opportunity Center, a federally funded grant program, regarding the enrollment process, financial aid, career services, disability support, records and transcripts, counseling, and related services, and perform clerical duties.

PLEASE NOTE: Limited duration position to end no later than August 31, 2031, but may be extended based upon funding. The Program has been continuously funded since 1979.

Essential Functions

• Provide information to prospective and current students, to include information on admissions, academic requirements and processes, financial aid, college offerings and services, and/or registration processes
• Provide assistance to students and other individuals; work may involve responding to general inquiries via phone, email, or in person; distributing supplies and resources; providing referrals; directing calls to appropriate personnel/departments; giving campus tours; assisting students with completing documentation; reviewing and collecting documentation; and processing payments
• Maintain records, call sheets, forms, spreadsheets, and training and other documentation; enter and track student data related to test scores, activities, status, financial aid, scholarships, and other financial, general, and confidential information
• Perform basic clerical duties to include maintaining supplies, reserving rooms, processing correspondence, preparing and distributing materials packets, and maintaining the calendar and scheduling appointments for all counselors in the department, taking into account their workload, other college committees and responsibilities, individual priorities and preferences
• Assist department staff with basic administrative duties, to include setting up and reserving rooms, distributing promotional materials, sending out invitations and reminders, registering students, and monitoring attendance, during special events and to facilitate related departmental operations
• Highlight department events and programming using displays in campus showcase and bulletin boards by creating display and bulletin board items and other marketing materials in various formats
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma OR G.E.D.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of program support principles and practices

• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Knowledge of record-keeping principles
• Knowledge of data entry principles and practices
• Knowledge of computers and applicable software and applications
• Skilled in providing customer service
• Skilled in preparing schedules
• Skilled in compiling information
• Skilled in performing data entry
• Skilled in providing program support
• Skilled in maintaining records
• Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information

Physical Requirements

Positions in this class typically require feeling, grasping, hearing, keyboarding, reaching, repetitive motion, standing, talking, visual acuity, and walking. The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly.

Supplemental Information

EEO Statement:

Metropolitan Community College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any person based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, birth, ancestry, national origin, or disability. EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled

Accommodations: MCC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, MCC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations in all aspects of employment, including the application process. To request an accommodation and/or a copy of the Americans with Disabilities Act applicant procedures, please contact the Office of Human Resources.

Organization

Long before Kansas City looked the way it does today, a group of people believed the region needed a place where anyone could get an education that led somewhere. That belief became Kansas City Polytechnic Institute in 1915, and a few years later, the Junior College of Kansas City, one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Over a century later, that same idea still drives the institution known today as Metropolitan Community College.

MCC is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, and that history isn't just a footnote. It's the foundation for a mission that hasn't changed: open doors, build skills, and help people move forward, whether that means a first degree, a career change, or a new trade learned close to home. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs across five campuses on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area: Blue River, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, and MCC-Online, spanning 47 buildings and roughly 550 acres.

But campuses and buildings only tell part of the story. What makes MCC matter is the people inside them, faculty who show up for students navigating school alongside jobs and families, staff who help someone find their footing, and colleagues who understand that this work changes the trajectory of a life. MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and several of its programs carry additional specialized accreditation, a reflection of a place that takes its responsibility to students seriously without losing sight of why the work exists in the first place.

For more than a hundred years, MCC has been part of how Kansas City grows and moves forward. The next chapter is being written now, by the people who choose to build their careers here. There's a place in that story for you.