Post-Secondary Success Advisor

About the Colorado LiftED Foundation

The Colorado LiftED Foundation is a long-term partner to youth. We believe that when we make a deep, long-term commitment to youth and their families, our whole community thrives. We walk side-by-side with youth and their families as they navigate school and life, offering academic, social, and emotional support as they learn, grow, and work toward their dreams.

No one should have to take this journey alone. Since our founding in 1988, we have leveraged proven methods to give youth equal access to the resources they need to succeed and ignite their innate potential. When we keep our promises, anything is possible.

A Colorado where every young person has equal access to educational and career opportunities that will ignite their innate potential.

The Post-Secondary Success Advisor is a long-term guide, advocate, and thought partner to a defined caseload of high school seniors or post-secondary cohort navigating the transition beyond graduation. This role sits at the intersection of personalized advising, barrier removal, and relationship-centered planning; working directly with youth to map college, career, trade, military, and workforce pathways that are grounded in their own strengths, values, and community context.

You will stay in relationship with young people beyond the end of the program year — maintaining mentorship and support through the years following high school graduation — because CLF's commitment to youth doesn't end at the diploma. Across every interaction, you will operate from the conviction that every young person deserves guidance that is accessible, culturally affirming, trauma-responsive, and healing-centered.

• A Seat at the Table | You will ensure that youth are not passive recipients of guidance but active co-designers of their own plans — bringing their experiences, values, and community wisdom to every advising conversation and into the decisions that shape their futures.
• Once a Dreamer, Always a Dreamer | You will stay in relationship with youth through the years after high school graduation, providing ongoing support, encouragement, and connection to resources — because CLF's investment in a young person doesn't expire when the program year ends.
• An Inch Wide, A Mile Deep | You will carry a focused caseload with full investment — knowing each young person by name, by dream, and by the specific barrier standing between them and their next step, and staying in that depth of relationship long after graduation.
• Whatever It Takes | When financial aid falls through, when an application hits a wall, when a family concern threatens to derail a plan — you will find the way forward, resourceful and persistent, scaffolding with creativity and urgency until the path is accessible.
• We Not Me | You will build and activate a network of partners (tutors, mental health resources, financial aid counselors, community organizations) treating collaboration as a strategic asset, not a referral list, so that no young person navigates this transition alone.

• Work directly with a cohort to identify each student's interests, strengths, and goals — knowing each young person by name and by the specific vision they are working toward — and develop personalized, co-designed post-secondary plans.
• Promote and celebrate all post-secondary options, ensuring youth fully understand the value and viability of college, trade, military, and career pathways without hierarchy or assumption.
• Ensure that youth are active co-designers of their plans — not passive recipients of guidance — bringing their own experiences, values, and community wisdom to the table at every step.
• Maintain mentorship and consistent support for youth through the years following high school graduation, honoring CLF's commitment to long-term relationship over short-term programming.

• Assist youth in mapping post-secondary pathways (college, career, internships, apprenticeships, trade programs, military, and workforce) and aligning those pathways with each…