Student Success & Retention Advisor

Title: Student Success & Retention Advisor

Department: Student Ach & Success Prog

Campus

Location:

Arnold/Main Campus

Salary Range: $57,408-$71,760

Work Mode: This position requires some regular in‑person presence on campus or at alternative locations, depending on business needs of the office.

Hours Per Week: 40

Position Type: Full‑Time Staff, Exempt

The Student Achievement and Success Program (SASP) Student Success and Retention Advisor provides direct academic, career, personal guidance, and advocacy to support academic success from enrollment to transfer or graduation of program participants.

The Advisor will develop and apply high‑impact and innovative practices and strategies designed to eradicate achievement gaps with an emphasis on equity and sustain academic achievement and personal development. Utilizing a caseload model and a holistic advising approach, this position provides advocacy and intervention strategies for students that are encountering hardships and makes referrals to other student support, campus services, and community resources.

The position facilitates the development of educational, career, transfer, and course selection/registration plans in adherence to academic rules and regulations, policies and procedures. The Advisor regularly monitors and documents students’ academic progress through one‑on‑one appointments to be held in‑person and/or remotely.

With the use of early alert, student success courses, tutoring, and SASP programs/initiatives, this position will support the increase in a student’s sense of belonging, retention, and pathways to completion.

As part of an advising team, this position actively contributes and engages in cross‑functional collaboration to share best practices, coordinate strategies, and implement approaches to support student success to create seamless, student‑centered support.

The individual in this position should be skilled in establishing rapport, problem solving, and providing a broad range of services designed to ensure the success of underprepared, underrepresented, first‑generation, low‑income, minority male, minority, and military‑connected students.

As such, this position will assist the assistant director in the recruitment and selection of participants through program presentations, high school collaborations, community outreach, social media, online community activities, and on‑campus and virtual engagement activities and programming for SASP populations.

Anne Arundel Community College (AACC) is committed to enriching the educational experience it offers through the diversity of its faculty, administrators, and staff members. The college seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to the college's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, embrace concepts of equity and inclusiveness, and support the equal rights of all people by advancing the understanding and appreciation of differences including age, race, gender, ability, religious convictions, socio‑economic status, ethnic heritage, or sexual orientation.

While we appreciate your interest in employment with Anne Arundel Community College, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S. on a full‑time basis. Employment‑based visa sponsorship (including H‑1B sponsorship) is not available for any position.

Pay dates occur on the 7th and 22nd of each month. If those dates fall on a weekend, the pay date occurs on the Friday prior to the 7th and 22nd. As an employee of the college, you are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package.

In the best interest of the College, only individuals who are residents of Maryland or one of the following states will be eligible for employment at the college:
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia or the District of Columbia. The college will annually review this restriction and, if appropriate, expand the list of states of employment eligibility.

• Advising and Caseload Management:
  Conduct initial interviews for new program participants and status check‑ins for continuing program participants to assess academic, career, personal, advising and…