Title: Student Success Program Manager

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Lamar Community College

Division: Student Affairs

Department: LCC Title V

Campus: Lamar Main Campus

Location: Lamar

Salary Range: $48,000 - $52,000

Who We Are:

At Lamar Community College, you'll find the rare opportunity to build a meaningful career while enjoying the benefits of rural Colorado living. Trade traffic for open roads, crowded neighborhoods for friendly faces, and long commutes for more time doing what you love.
Our campus is at the center of a vibrant and supportive community where employees have the chance to make a visible impact, build genuine relationships, and help shape the future of students and the region. From community festivals and local sporting events to outdoor adventures, stunning prairie sunsets, and some of the best stargazing in Colorado, Lamar offers a lifestyle that is both rewarding and refreshing.

If you're looking for a career where your work matters, your voice is valued, and your community knows your name, Lamar Community College may be exactly the place you've been searching for.

Job Summary:

Lamar Community College is seeking a Student Success Program Manager who is passionate about helping students overcome barriers, stay on track, and achieve their educational goals.

This position plays an important role in connecting students with the resources they need to succeed while helping the College strengthen its overall approach to student success. The Student Success Program Manager will oversee COSI grant activities, monitor student success outcomes, coordinate early-alert and wraparound support services, and use data to identify opportunities to better support our students.

The ideal candidate is organized, student-focused, comfortable working with data and reporting requirements, and able to collaborate across departments to turn student needs into meaningful action.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Manage and coordinate LCC's COSI grant programs, including Precollegiate, Postsecondary, MSS, IHE, COSI Revamp, and other applicable initiatives.
2. Complete required grant reporting and assist with monitoring grant budgets, activities, outcomes, and compliance requirements.
3. Track key student success measures, including graduation, early-alert outcomes, and utilization of wraparound support services.
4. Administer the College's early-alert process, ensuring alerts are appropriately routed, addressed, and connected to necessary student supports.
5. Coordinate wraparound support services designed to reduce barriers to student success, including oversight of the campus food pantry.
6. Collaborate with the Student Success Specialist and other College partners to collect and analyze information needed for COSI reporting and student success initiatives.
7. Support the administration, reporting, and effective use of EAB Navigate.
8. Manage Testing Center operations for placement testing, CLEP, proctored testing, and other applicable testing services.
9. Assist Faculty by issuing proctored make-up tests
10. Build collaborative relationships across the College to strengthen student retention, persistence, and completion.
11. Perform other duties that support the goals of Student Services & Success and applicable grant programs.
12. Other duties as assigned.

COMPETENCIES/KSA's

• Knowledge of student success, advising, retention, and wraparound support practices, particularly for high-risk and nontraditional student populations.
• Knowledge of grant administration, reporting, compliance, and program tracking practices.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, mentoring, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to interpret and use student data, success metrics, and early-alert information to support student outcomes.
• Ability to coordinate multiple programs, priorities, deadlines, and reporting requirements with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively use student information and technology systems, including EAB Navigate.
• Ability to collaborate across departments and build effective working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and external partners.
• Demonstrated sound judgment, initiative, problem-solving, confidentiality, and commitment to student success.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 1-year experience advising students In an academic or student-support setting
• Minimum of 1-year experience in a customer service-related field
• Use and experience with EAB Navigate
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in education, counseling, or a related area 
• Familiar with proactive advising practices, individualized advising plans, and the 
• Incorporation of career development into advising 
• Experience working in an education setting with diverse student populations

Selection Process:

One round-interview process

All applications must be submitted online. To be considered, applicants must submit a complete application package that includes:

1. Cover Letter describing interest in the position and how your qualifications align with the requirements
2. Current Résumé or Curriculum Vitae
3. Contact information for three (3) professional references; to include one (1) recent supervisor, one (1) recent colleague.
4. Official Transcripts verifying the highest degree earned will be required upon offer of employment and should be sent to audrey.rodriguez@lamarcc.edu.

Application Instructions: 

By submitting an application for this position, applicants certify that all statements, information, and documents provided are true, complete, and accurate to the best of their knowledge. Applicants further acknowledge that any omissions, misrepresentations, or false information-whether intentional or unintentional-may result in disqualification from consideration, disciplinary action, termination of employment, and/or legal action as permitted by law.

Notice to all Applicants

Proof of eligibility to work in the United States must be produced within three (3) days of hire.
LCC participates in E-Verify.
Direct deposit of payroll is a condition of employment.
Final candidate is subject to a criminal background check prior to final selection process.
Final candidate is required to submit official transcripts to Human Resources within fourteen (14) days of hire.
LCC is affiliated with the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) and as such, employees contribute to PERA in lieu of Social Security for retirement benefits. For more information, visit the COPERA web page.
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 your application material.

Additional Information/Benefits:

✔ Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, legal, and medical transport plans

✔ Flexible spending and health savings account options

✔ Generous retirement benefits through PERA, including employer-matched retirement contributions and optional 401(k) and 457 plans

✔ Tuition reimbursement to support your educational and professional growth

✔ Exceptional paid leave benefits

✔ A supportive, mission-driven environment where your work directly impacts students and the community

✔ Free employee access to our Fitness Center