Academic & Career Navigator

California State University•Allen, TX

3d•$5,083 - $5,708•Onsite

About The Position

The Academic & Career Navigator is a temporary, grant-supported position in the Division of Academic Affairs. The role provides integrated academic and career guidance to assigned student populations, including first-year, transfer, and undeclared students. It supports student planning, progress, persistence, career readiness, and transitions to employment or graduate education through advising, proactive outreach, coordinated referrals, programming, and collaboration with campus and community partners. This is an in-person, student-facing, campus-based position requiring a regular on-campus presence. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required. The position is subject to continued availability of grant funds, and no permanent appointment will result from it.

Requirements

Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university in a job-related field.
Equivalent of two years of professional experience in student services or a related area. A master’s degree in a job-related field may substitute for one year of professional experience, consistent with CSU classification standards.
Working knowledge of student services practices.
Demonstrated ability to advise students individually and in groups; analyze student needs and information; exercise sound judgment; apply established policies and procedures; and make effective referrals.
Ability to independently organize day-to-day assignments, facilitate workshops and outreach, maintain accurate records, use student-success and career-development technologies, manage multiple priorities, and maintain confidentiality.
Ability to work effectively with diverse students, faculty, staff, administrators, and external partners in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in counseling, higher education, student affairs, education, career development, or a related field.
Experience in academic advising, career advising, student-success coaching, retention support, case management, workforce-readiness programming, or related higher-education services.
Experience using EAB Navigate, Handshake, Slate, or similar platforms.
Experience using student data to inform outreach, intervention, assessment, or continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Provide individual and group guidance on academic planning, major and career exploration, degree progress, career readiness, and post-graduate goals for assigned student populations.
Advise students on degree planning, registration, academic milestones, and University processes within established training, policy, and role scope; coordinate with Academic Advising or academic programs when specialized curricular interpretation is needed.
Connect students with career exploration, internships, student employment, research, service learning, employer engagement, graduate education, and other career-connected or experiential opportunities, and help students articulate skills gained through academic and co-curricular experiences.
Use University systems, Early Alerts, enrollment information, and other indicators to conduct proactive outreach, identify barriers, develop action steps, coordinate referrals, and follow up with students.
Support new and continuing student enrollment activities, including Admitted Dolphin Day, open houses, orientation, new-student advising and registration, drop-in support, enrollment campaigns, and other student-success initiatives.
Participate in coordinated care and case-management practices and work with faculty and campus partners to connect students with appropriate academic, financial, wellbeing, and student-support resources.
Support CI Compass programming focused on workforce alignment, career readiness, academic-to-career connections, student engagement, and transitions from college to employment or graduate education.
Facilitate workshops, presentations, class-based activities, and cohort experiences on academic planning, career exploration, professional development, transferable skills, goal setting, and related student-success topics.
Collaborate across Academic Advising, Career Development, faculty, employers, alumni, community partners, and other campus units to strengthen referral pathways, coordinated programming, and shared student-success practices.
Refer matters requiring formal policy, personnel, procurement, fiscal, or other institutional approval to the responsible university office.
Maintain accurate documentation of student interactions, referrals, participation, and outcomes in designated University systems; provide service and participation data for CI Compass assessment and grant reporting; and support continuous improvement.
Use student and program data to identify patterns, inform outreach and programming, and contribute to evaluation of academic progression, retention, career engagement, and post-graduate outcomes.
Perform other related duties and support additional CI Compass, Academic & Career Success, and student-success initiatives as assigned, consistent with the classification and grant objectives.