Resource Specialist

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Who We Are

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek.

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.

The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.

Who You Are

The Gateway to College Resource Specialist is responsible for comprehensive support of students who have been dropped out of high school or are at risk of dropping out of high school, and who are reengaging in their education through a dropout prevention and recovery dual enrollment program at FRCC called “Gateway to College”.

This is a hybrid position that involves both facilitation of advising classes and case management/counseling. The Resource Specialist works directly with approximately 40 students per semester, dually enrolled in high school and college who are working towards earning a high school diploma as well as college credit. Students in the “GTC” program attend full time at the FRCC Westminster Campus. The Resource Specialist facilitates two Gateway to College/FRCC courses – Advanced Academic Achievement and/or Semester Survival (AAA1009 and/or AAA0050). The Resource Specialist also case manages a caseload of approximately 30-40 Gateway to College students each semester. At the close of each semester, the Resource Specialist will work with the Gateway to College team to ensure all students successfully transition to their next semester of general ed college courses, and/or are prepared to graduate and transition to their post-secondary plan. This position requires a person to be skilled in advising, counseling, classroom facilitation, and case management. It also requires an understanding and willingness to work creatively with high school students facing several barriers to their education in a college setting. The Resource Specialist will serve as a liaison to faculty/instructors and staff, student support systems, and Gateway to College program staff/instructors for students on their caseload. The position also supports enrollment efforts as part of a team by conducting presentations, interviews, acceptance meetings, and administering assessment testing. 

This position does have the opportunity to work remotely occasionally but does require a strong on-campus presence and may require occasional travel to all three FRCC campuses.

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

SALARY: $55,046 - $57,798 annually

The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate’s education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position’s scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value.

BENEFITS: For information about benefits, please view APT & Faculty Benefits.

SELECTION PROCESS: Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of November 4, 2025. This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.

Preliminary screening will be made on the basis of a completed application package submitted by the candidate. In your application, please include a resume and cover letter that specifically addresses how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications and responsibilities of the Gateway to College Resource Specialist.

Primary Duties

Build Individual Relationships

• Build strong relationships with individual students. This includes engaging in authentic and open dialogue with a focus on student strengths and abilities.  Utilize strengths-based approaches and appreciative advising strategies to engage students and help them build self-efficacy and confidence. Engage in regular 1:1 meetings with students that support students holistically – both with academic and non-academic interventions. Utilize wrap around support services to remove barriers to success.  This also requires one to own and acknowledge their own mistakes in order to build trust with students, as well as an ownership and acknowledgement of potential biases, privilege and power when building relationships with students.  

Build community and culture

• Actively and intentionally build community within each classroom/cohort.  Create activities and events that create a positive identity as a Gateway to College student, implement daily/weekly activities or rituals that helps the community build support among peers, and allows everyone to feel welcomed and included.  Create and follow through with regular celebrations to acknowledge student success and connect students to one another.  

Case management

• Communication and holistic support - Engage in intensive student support to include interventions that address both academic and nonacademic barriers to educational success (i.e. parent meetings, parent calls, student meetings, referrals to wrap around services, success plans, accountability interventions, etc.). High levels of communication with students is required for this position and includes talking to them each day to ensure they are attending regularly, keeping up with work and accessing support.  This also requires high levels of communication with support systems outside of the program (parents, mentors, tutors, counselors, probation officers, etc).  Also serves as a liaison between students and GTC faculty and staff.

Classroom facilitation

• Each semester, facilitate at least 1-2 AAA courses (AAA1009 and/or AAA0050) with up to 22 Gateway to College students. Plan and execute activities and projects, monitor grades, provide academic and soft skill support, create and execute lesson plans according to the classroom syllabus and course content goals. Support students in planning their future classes, pathways and degree selection. Help students use navigate to register for college courses.  

Equity minded teamwork

• Work on a small team of dedicated staff members to innovate, plan, collaborate and implement equity and antiracist focused best practices and curriculum for students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out of high school.  This requires a high level of dedication to working effectively on a team, strong communication skills, being aware of biases, communicating openly and honestly, and always working in the best interests of students and student success.   

Enrollment

• Support the Assistant Director with enrollment processes to include – conducting prospective student interviews, information session support, completing student write ups for school districts, and facilitating acceptance meetings for new students, all with a lens of equity focuses strategies.   

Required Competencies

• Mission, Vision & Values: Embraces the mission, vision and values of FRCC. Understands the importance of the work that you do to support institutional goals.
• Student Centeredness: Places the student at the center of your work. Adopts a philosophy that makes the ability to serve the student the cornerstone of the work that you do.
• Data Usage and Innovation: Look at the data within the department, paying particular attention to what the data shows about the department's performance and student impact. Works with supervisor to brainstorm changes that can be implemented to improve a program or service that the department provides – especially related to relevant and engaging interventions and support strategies for students to meet their goals.
• Cultural Self-Awareness & Relationships Building: Willing to examine own beliefs and acknowledge own biases and how they have impacted or may impact the ability to serve students. Build open and positive relationships that honor where a student is at.
• Cultural Competence: Recognize the need to become knowledgeable about the ways to communicate and support students of other backgrounds. Change approach to reflect the new learning.
• Written and Verbal Communication: Constant communication with students, frequent communication with parents/support people, frequent email and in person/online with GTC team and instructors. One on one check-in meetings and group meetings weekly.
• Operational Planning & Accountability: Have an understanding and knowledge of the college's various strategic plans and understand how your work supports each of them. Understand the department's expectations to find proactive ways to support the goals of the department. Follow through with what you say you will do with students, hold students accountable with a balance of support and accountability.
• Equity Mindedness: Learn to view department operations through an equity lens. Be willing to call attention to processes that lead to inequity in serving students. Understand the College's equity goals and how your role supports FRCC's ability to achieve those goals. Equity minded approaches with students, parents, staff and students that focus on anti-racist ideas and actions.
• Team Building: Participate in team-building exercises and strive to build positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues both within the department and in other departments within the college.
• Collaboration: Willingness to work with colleagues across departments to further student engagement. Work closely within the GTC team in planning, meetings, and communication to ensure all are on the same page.
• Leading from the Middle: Lead from your position by not only closely examine your responsibilities for the department, but in bringing forward ideas to your supervisor the college should consider to be more student centered.
• Strong Technology Skills: Ability to use or learn various platforms. Be willing to trouble shoot and find answers, try different things if technology isn’t working. Heavy use of spreadsheets, email, chats, and Banner.

Qualifications

Required Education/Training & Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Human Services or related field.
• 2 years’ experience working in field of education, social work, counseling, human services or related field. To include:
  • Demonstrated experience working with diverse groups. 
  • Demonstrated experience working with “at risk” youth/students.
  • Demonstrated experience working with groups of students/youth. 
  • Demonstrated experience on a team of service providers/educators working together to meet client or student needs. 

Preferred Education/Training & Work Experience:

• Ability to communicate effectively in Spanish.

Welcoming. Respectful. Inclusive. Together, we are FRCC.

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