College and Career Navigator Adult Education (Positive Pay)
JobID: 17370
Position Type: Non-Teaching Professional/Grant Funded
Date Posted: 10/7/2025
Location: Conway Education Center
Closing Date: 10/14/2025
Additional Information: Show/Hide Job Title: College and Career Navigator / Adult Education Supervisor: Director of Adult Education Terms of Employment: Postive Pay
Job Summary:
Assist adult education students with supportive services needs while receiving adult education services by identifying and connecting students to support services and activities to ensure successful transition into and completion of postsecondary education/training and/or employment.
Research information and community services to best assist adult education students.
Counsel students, one-on-one or in a group, to provide them of information on available community and educational services and to inform students of postsecondary and/or employment options.
Aid the Adult Education Director and/staff in the development and implementation of career pathways.
Assist students in career planning, goal-setting and developing career/college plans.
Track student progress through identified pathway benchmarks and follow-up with students to reconfirm goals or assist with alternate pathways according to changing student needs and interest.
Identify and collaborate with other available education, training, and social service resources in the community, such as by establishing strong links with secondary schools, postsecondary educational institutions, institutions of higher education, local workforce investment boards, one-stop centers, job training programs, and social service agencies, business, industry, labor organizations, community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, and intermediaries, for overall program success and individual student success.
Essential Duties
1. Coordinate Student Community Referral System
A. Employment (One-Stops – SC Works Centers) – Coordinate with local One-Stop intensive services and employment opportunities for the purpose of matching students with full-time or part-time employment.
Assist in job placement (part-time or full-time).
Conduct information sessions with education, training, and social services partners.
Utilize student interest and career inventories to direct students along a career pathway.
Develop, both short-term and long-term, individual career plans.
Coordinate with the local One-Stop counselor to meet with potential students to explore employment or offer intensive services for those students who meet eligibility guidelines.
Offer skill training in job application completion (paper and computer based), interview skills, and resume preparation to prepare students for the world of work.
B. Armed Forces
Contact recruiters (e.g., Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and National Guard) to establish informational sessions for potential adult education students.
Regularly schedule recruiters to meet with individual or small groups to provide opportunities for students to explore military options.
Coordinate student records with recruiters to ensure transition into the military.
C. Postsecondary/training
Present information about local postsecondary/other training opportunities to students and their availability.
Coordinate on-site visits with the technical college admissions counselors to include Educational Opportunity Center (EOC), TRiO, and traditional technical college admissions program for the purpose of sharing program information with adult education students highlighting certificate, diploma, and degree programs.
Arrange on-site campus visits.
Schedule with the technical college the student administration of the ACCUPLACER test at the local adult education site.
Provide student assistance with financial aid information and forms to be completed.
Guide adult education students through the application process.
2. Student Accountability
Maintain a student database to include contact/attendance and student placement.
Work in tandem with the adult education teachers and staff to promote students achieving their goals.
Maintain complete and accurate records/reports of the program, and prepares such reports as may be required by the S.C. Department of Education, Office of Adult Education.
3. Professional Responsibilities
Participate in meetings and workshops sponsored by the Office of Adult Education, the SC Adult Education Technical Assistance Network (TAN), and other professional development activities.
Attend and successfully complete the National Career Development Facilitator (CDF) certification training.
Prepare and disseminate promotional and program materials.
Communicate to local community resources on a regular basis any progress or challenges that impact the transition initiative.
Other Duties Perform such other tasks and assume such other responsibilities as may from time to time be assigned by your supervisor.
Job Specifications Performance of this job will be evaluated annually by the local Adult Education Director with assistance from the SCDE Office of Adult Education.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required)
A Bachelor’s Degree or higher from an accredited college or university. At least one year of successful experience in career counseling, employment placement, college placement, or student services.
Computer literacy required. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Alternative job qualifications as determined by the adult education program should be approved by the SCDE Office of Adult Education.
Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms; walk; sit; stoop or kneel; crouch or crawl.
Additional physical requirements include the following:
Physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 40 pounds;
Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus;
Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time;
Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry;
Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids;
Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; and
Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Pay Grade: Positive Pay
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor. Horry County Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice. ding applications.
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