Scholarship Community Manager

Scholarship Community Coordinator

At Colorado Mesa University (CMU), we look at every position as a seat. Every seat is vital and the individual in the seat contributes significantly to our mission of providing an affordable and accessible education and forming meaningful and mutually enriching partnerships that support the well-being and vibrancy of our community. As a human centric organization, a priority is to ensure we have the "right seats" in our organization, and that the expectations, ownership and accountabilities are defined and communicated clearly for the success of the individuals holding the seats.

The Scholarship Community Coordinator is a full-time, student-facing, campus-based position within the First-Gen+ Support Center. The coordinator independently manages assigned scholarship communities, including relationship-based student support, cohort engagement, program requirements, events, partner relationships, student tracking, budget monitoring, and reporting. The coordinator serves as a consistent point of contact for scholars and donors, providing proactive, relationship-based support that promotes belonging, academic progress, persistence, and completion of scholarship requirements.

The position requires regular and predictable on-campus availability for scheduled appointments, drop-in support, student employee supervision, team collaboration, and programming.

Key tasks include:

• Independently manage assigned scholarship communities, including Reisher Scholars, Daniels Fund, and other institutional or externally funded programs as assigned.
• Provide proactive, relationship-based advising to a dedicated caseload of scholars through regular meetings, drop-in availability, outreach, follow-up, and referrals to campus resources.
• Monitor student eligibility, academic progress, engagement, and scholarship requirements, following up promptly when concerns arise.
• Maintain accurate and timely student notes, program records, tracking systems, shared files, and reports.
• Coordinate scholarship award processes with Financial Aid and ensure required information is complete and submitted by established deadlines.
• Coordinate scholar recruitment, selection, onboarding, ongoing engagement, and transitions through program completion or graduation.
• Monitor program budgets, reconcile expenditures, and follow university purchasing, One Card, travel, and financial procedures.
• Plan, coordinate, attend, and evaluate orientations, workshops, dinners, selection activities, donor engagements, and other events/programs, including occasional evenings/weekends.
• Serve as the primary operational contact for assigned scholarship partners, maintain program commitments, and support donor relationships, agreements, and reporting in collaboration with appropriate university partners.
• Recruit, train, supervise, and evaluate assigned student employees, including delegating responsibilities, communicating expectations, monitoring progress, and providing ongoing feedback.
• Develop strategies that strengthen scholar engagement, retention, academic success, career readiness, and connection to the university.
• Attend required meetings and training and remain current on changing scholarship, financial aid, purchasing, student support, and university processes.
• Maintain working knowledge of other Scholarship Community programs to support collaboration, cross-training, and short-term backup coverage.
• Communicate progress, concerns, barriers, and needed decisions to the Director promptly and contribute to First-Gen+ Support Center initiatives and continuous improvement.

Success in this role is demonstrated through:

• Accessible, responsive, and relationship-based support for assigned scholars.
• Timely student meetings, outreach,…