Open until filled

Applications review and interviews in progress currently.

Position Description

This position provides a wide range of activities involved in onboarding and admissions, advising, proactive success coaching, and student enrollment. This position will report to the Dean of Student Services. The Success Navigator is responsible for ensuring that students have a quality front- door experience and are connected to institutional resources.

The Success Navigator will work collaboratively with faculty and staff to provide a broad range of services throughout the enrollment cycle to students including advising, registration, and success coaching. This position will participate in on-going professional development trainings related to the College’s student information systems and portals, admissions, financial aid, career assessments, advising; and registration.

Essential Responsibilities

• Participates in new student recruitment activities.
• Provides student success services to current students.
• Serves as the initial and primary point of contact for prospective students through the entire onboarding process.
• Assists students in navigating admissions policies and procedures, answers specific inquiries, maintains contact with prospective students, and ensures completion of application materials of students in the admissions process including, but not limited to, applying, financial aid completion, placement information, academic advising, assistance with registration, transfer information, and payment.
• Teaches students how to navigate the student portals, electronic forms, and other MCC IT resources.
• Assists students in selecting educational programs compatible with their interests, needs, and abilities, administer introductory online career assessments as needed.
• Provides students with initial and ongoing academic advising by assisting with course planning, facilitating student admission and registration, advising students of available support programs and services, and maintaining records of advising contacts.
• Assesses prospective student admission data such as test scores and placement information, reviews transcripts from high school, postsecondary institutions, and other relative documentation.
• Provides information regarding course offerings to applicants which requires familiarity with all curriculum and continuing education programs offered by the college.
• Conducts advising and information sessions for prospective and current students.
• Collaborates with Student Services and other areas of the College to support student success initiatives and to provide students with accurate and timely information to make informed and positive decisions.
• Engages in proactive outreach to a caseload of students, provides ongoing coaching, and connects students to needed resources and services.
• Responds to faculty-submitted and automatically-generated alerts for an assigned caseload of students and identify at-risk students within as assigned caseload of students using reports, retention software, and data.
• Maintains current knowledge base on all resources and procedures related to students.
• Participates in student events including new student orientation.
• Facilitates workshops and training sessions for students as needed.
• Maintains adequate records and assures correct applicant status.
• Responds in a timely and professional manner to student inquiries.
• Regularly attends assigned academic department meetings, engage with faculty/staff, and other departmental meetings, as appropriate, to remain current with departmental policies and procedures.
• Completes annual professional development requirements.
• Serves on college-wide committees as requested.
• Follows and supports College activities, policies, and procedures.
• Performs additional tasks or duties as assigned.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Montgomery Community College provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.