Academic Support Specialist (part-time)
- Littleton, Colorado, United States
- Part Time
- Opening on: Sep 22 2026
- Closing on: Sep 30 2026
Title: Academic Support Specialist (part-time)
Position Type: APT Regular Hourly
College: Arapahoe Community College
Division: Strategy & Institutional Initiatives
Department: Tutoring & Learning Resources
Campus: Littleton Campus
Location: Littleton
Salary Range: $29.52 per hour
Who We Are:
ACC Careers: Where You Can Move Mountains
Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains sits one of the oldest community colleges in Colorado, Arapahoe Community College. With a rich history of educational excellence, ACC embraces a culture that values diversity, individualized support, and unwavering commitment to student success, without exception.
Job Summary:
The Academic Support Specialist plays a key role in supporting student success through the coordination, assessment, and continuous improvement of academic support services. This position leads Academic Skills Coaching initiatives, supports early intervention efforts for students in need of additional academic assistance, evaluates program effectiveness, and contributes to annual reporting. Working closely with students, faculty, staff, and tutoring team members, the specialist uses data-informed practices to enhance services and support evolving student needs.
This position combines student support, program coordination, and data-informed decision-making to enhance academic success across the College. The Academic Support Specialist collaborates with campus partners to expand academic skills coaching, implement early intervention strategies, evaluate program outcomes, and communicate impact through assessment and reporting. By identifying trends, supporting service improvements, and helping students connect with the right resources at the right time, this role contributes directly to student persistence, achievement, and overall success.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, coordinate, promote, and assess the Academic Skills Coaching program, including partnerships, training development, and continuous program improvement.
- Collaborate with faculty and campus partners to identify, support, and connect students to academic resources through proactive early intervention efforts.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret participation, assessment, and student success data to evaluate program effectiveness and inform decision-making.
- Evaluate and enhance assessment practices for tutoring, Peer Academic Mentor, and Academic Skills Coaching programs.
- Gather, verify, analyze, and report program data to develop annual reports highlighting outcomes, impact, trends, and opportunities for growth.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Communications, Business, Psychology, or a related field.
- Two years' experience in academic support, tutoring, student services, advising, education, data tracking, or program coordination.
- Experience or training in data collection, data management, data analysis, or assessment reporting preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Ability to collect, organize, verify, and summarize data with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage confidential student information with professionalism and discretion.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Excel, student information systems, or data management tools.
Application Instructions:
All applicants must submit:
1. Resume
2. Detailed letter of interest (cover letter) addressing the job announcement. Please include any experiences you may have embedding equity and inclusion in your work, see below.
At ACC, we seek to hire candidates who are committed to fostering respectful, welcoming, and supportive environments for all individuals. In your cover letter, please describe how you have worked to create such environments in your current or previous roles, and share what this commitment means to you in your professional practice.
Additional Information/Benefits:
This is an ongoing, part-time position limited to 28 hours per week.
All benefits information can be found at the Benefits tab at the top of this page.
Reasonable Accommodation/Additional Details
Arapahoe Community College provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process and/or during the course of employment, please contact Angela Johnson, Vice President of Human Resources, at 303.797.5715 or Angela.Johnson@arapahoe.edu.
For information regarding Arapahoe Community College Security, including Clery Act / Crime Statistics for the campuses and surrounding area, please see the Arapahoe Community College Annual Security Report. For a hard copy report, please contact the ACC Campus Police Department at (303) 797-5800, campus.police@arapahoe.edu, or Room M2600 at 5900 South Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, Colorado 80120.
Notice to all Applicants
- Final candidate will be subject to successful completion of a background check, and, if applicable, a motor vehicle record review.
- Former employees of the Colorado Community College System, or one of its 13 colleges, who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination, must disclose this information in their application material.
- Final candidate may be required to submit unofficial transcripts to verify education.
- Direct deposit of payroll is a condition of employment.
- All ACC employees, except student employees, contribute to Colorado PERA at a fixed percentage of their earnings and do not contribute to Social Security.
- Finalist must be willing to make Colorado their primary workplace.