Coordinator, Rising Scholars Categorically Funded Clovis Community College

Coordinator, Rising Scholars (Full-Time, Categorically Funded) – Clovis Community College

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Closing Date: 2/2/2026 at 11:55 PM
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Clovis Community College
Start Date: 12/23/2025

At Clovis Community College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments;
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

• Coordinate implementation of CCC's Rising Scholars-Juvenile Justice grant objectives;
• Track student progress while working as a liaison between administration, justice impacted students, and campus resources;
• Coordinate student success workshops and support services, study sessions, tutoring opportunities, and other on-campus services that will be beneficial to our justice impacted student population;
• Assist with the Rising Scholars-Juvenile Justice budget oversight, implementation, and reporting;
• Coordinate grant and program reports;
• Collaborate with the Financial Aid Office, Tutorial Center, faculty and classified professionals to develop practices and workshops that improve student success, retention, and completion;
• Coordinate academic workshops and other forms of academic assistance;
• Provide coordination to the Rising Scholars Counselor with activities including checking and follow-up with the academic progress of Rising Scholars and justice impacted students;
• Participate in monthly regional Rising Scholars Coordinator meetings;
• Coordinate professional development opportunities for the campus community on serving justice impacted youth;
• Collaborate with other campuses in the district to coordinate efforts to support justice impacted youth;
• Collaborate with both Instructional and Academic Counseling faculty and staff in special programs, such as EOPS, Next Up, TRIO, DSPS, Cal Works and other programs (as appropriate) to maximize student success and equitable access;
• Collaborate with various support services such as Academic Counseling, Basic Needs and Retention, the Tutorial Center, Career Center, and Library to ensure that students are knowledgeable and are utilizing the support services to reach their academic goal;
• Coordinate the Peer Mentor Program:
  Assist in the recruitment, hiring, onboarding of peer mentors; provide training and ongoing guidance and support of peer mentors; conduct trainings for peer mentors; offer and encourage peer mentors to engage in professional development opportunities; monitor and support the professional growth of peer mentors;
• Provide students information on how to properly navigate college policies, procedures, and access resources;
• Collaborate with K-12 partners to identify, recruit, track, and manage prospective college students who may be at-risk and educate these students on the support services available;
• Collaborate with Academic Counseling and College Relations in outreach and registration events and activities to improve the effectiveness of outreach activities, research and advocate for necessary updates, and bridge gaps of student access in particular for our students from under-represented groups;
• Collaborate with faculty and staff to identify and implement interventions designed to meet the needs of students and increase equitable engagement of students across the campus;
• Track and analyze program student success and equity data;
• Forge meaningful partnerships/relationships with various community agencies and external stakeholders to connect with and support justice impacted students;
• Serve on cross-functional teams for select student development initiatives and programs such as student activities, commencement, welcome activities, and other special events;
• Maintain a comprehensive listing of off-campus referral services and points of contact;
• Report to the Dean of Students responsible for the collaborations, activities and programming related to student success and equity;
• Participate in professional development…