Career Navigator

Department Information

Department: GJD-416790 3/26: THIS POSITION IS NON-CLASSIFIED

The Community College of Denver (CCD) seeks candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to fostering an inclusive learning and work environment and who can effectively work with students, families, faculty, instructors, and staff from diverse backgrounds. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution, CCD is dedicated to expanding access and opportunity for nontraditional students, supporting workforce development, and strengthening community partnerships that promote educational attainment and career success.

Serving a diverse student population, CCD values individuals who contribute to its mission of advancing social, civic, and economic vitality.

The Career Navigator serves as a guide and resource for prospective and newly enrolled students, supporting them in making informed decisions about their academic, career, and employment goals. This role connects students to college systems, workforce pathways, and support services while helping reduce barriers to enrollment, persistence, and completion. The Career Navigator ensures that career advising occurs with students at multiple entry points, including prospective student inquiry, New Student Orientation, the High School Diploma Program, and through ongoing case management, to ensure support is coordinated, timely, and centered on student needs.

This position will work with students to help them understand how their interests, strengths, and lived experiences connect to academic programs and career pathways that lead to credential completion and living wage employment.

This position requires strong relationship-building skills, a working knowledge of academic and career pathways, and the ability to provide proactive, individualized support to students from diverse backgrounds. The role also requires an understanding of career development theories, familiarity with a range of industries and occupations and how they intersect with the labor market trends, and knowledge of college programs and resources.

In addition, the Career Navigator serves as a resource for staff and faculty by providing guidance and training that support meaningful career conversations with students.

Recruit and outreach to prospective students with a focus on completing next steps to enrollment; presenting and tabling to the College’s community on the educational opportunities.

Provide one‑on‑one and group career counseling to students, assist them in self‑assessment, career exploration using tools such as Super Strong and others, and goal setting. Help students identify their interests, skills, and values to align them with potential career paths. Assist students in articulating prior learning, work experience, and transferable skills as part of career and program decision making. Assist students in selecting an academic pathway and creation of academic plan to completion.

Guide students in developing personalized career plans, including selecting relevant labor market information, wage outcomes, courses, transfer pathways, internships, and extracurricular activities. Help students create long‑term strategies to achieve their career objectives. Ensure students are matriculated to an academic pathway that matches their career and transfer goals.

Develop and deliver workshops, presentations, and seminars on career‑related topics such as career exploration, labor market information, resume writing, job search strategies, interview preparation, and professional networking. Collaborate with campus departments to provide coordinated and comprehensive career development programming. Lead and support New Student Orientation efforts by helping students understand and navigate through the enrollment steps, institutional expectations, available campus resources, and how to access academic and support services that promote student success.

Support students enrolled in the High School Diploma Program by monitoring progress toward completion, providing…