Director, Transfer & Emerging Students

Title: Director, Transfer & Emerging Students

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Front Range Community College

Division: Student Affairs

Department: FRCC Enrollment & Retention

Campus: Boulder County Campus, Larimer Campus, or Westminster Campus

Location: Fort Collins, CO; Longmont, CO; or Westminster, CO

Salary Range: $78,618 - $82,549 annually

Who We Are:

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek.

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.

The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.

Job Summary:

As the Director of Transfer & Emerging Initiatives, you will provide strategic leadership for college-wide efforts that strengthen student access, transfer success, and educational attainment. Reporting to the Associate Vice President of Enrollment & Retention, you will lead high-impact projects, partnerships, and initiatives that advance Front Range Community College's commitment to student success, belonging, innovation, and continuous improvement.

In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues across Enrollment Management & Student Success, Academic Affairs, Workforce Development, and external partners to strengthen transfer pathways, remove barriers to student progression, and enhance the student experience. You will use data-informed decision-making, project management expertise, and relationship-building skills to translate strategic priorities into meaningful action and measurable outcomes that support student success and institutional effectiveness.

This position can be based out of any FRCC campus and requires a strong on-campus presence. The position may have the opportunity to work remotely occasionally and will need to travel to all three FRCC campuses as needed. 

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Management & Strategic Initiatives

• Engage internal and external stakeholders to design, implement, assess, and sustain transfer-focused and emerging initiatives aligned with the college's strategic plan and student success priorities.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, data-informed decision making, and equity-centered approaches to advance institutional goals and improve student outcomes.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and performance measures to ensure successful implementation and continuous improvement.
• Monitor progress, evaluate outcomes, identify barriers, and implement adjustments that enhance the student experience and institutional effectiveness.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and recommendations for college leadership and governance groups..     

Transfer Partnerships & Pathways

• Assist in the development and maintenance of partnerships with four-year institutions.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement transfer fairs and engagement opportunities that connect students directly with four-year institution partners.
• Collaborate with academic departments to support articulation agreements, pathway development, and program alignment. 
• Identify and expand transfer opportunities that support diverse student populations, including traditional, adult, and workforce learners. 
• Represent the institution in transfer networks, consortia, and partnership meetings. 

Transfer Communication & Web Strategy

• Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of transfer-related digital content and resources to ensure information is accessible, accurate, student-centered, and easy to navigate.
• Partner with Marketing and Communications to develop targeted messaging and outreach strategies. 
• Monitor user experience and engagement data to inform improvements to digital resources

Emerging Initiatives Development

• Identify, design, and implement innovative initiatives that advance student success, transfer outcomes, institutional effectiveness, and strategic priorities.
• Conduct research, benchmarking, and environmental scans to inform innovation. 
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to pilot and scale new programs and services. 

Collaboration & Leadership

• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with faculty, staff, college leadership, and community partners to advance strategic initiatives and improve organizational effectiveness.
• Serve as a liaison across Enrollment Management & Student Success, Workforce Development, Academic Affairs, Marketing, Institutional Research, and other college divisions.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement, working groups, and collaborative planning efforts that support student-centered solutions.
• Promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and shared accountability for student success.
• Provide guidance and support to teams involved in transfer and initiative-based work.

Competencies/KSAs:

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Demonstrates behaviors that convey the importance of diverse lived-experiences and using an equity lens to guide decisions. Embraces diversity, promotes equity and creates an environment of inclusion.  
• Commitment to Values: Demonstrates leadership and collaborative behaviors and actions that support FRCC values.  Promotes an environment where equity creates opportunities for all students to achieve their educational goals. 
• Student Success Focus: Makes decisions that support a student-first culture. 
• Strategic Planning: Develops a vision for the future and creates a culture in which long-range goals can be achieved. Ensures that contributions to the strategic plan are rooted in equity-mindedness and student success. 
• Operational Planning: Have an understanding and knowledge of the college's various strategic plans and understand how your work supports each of them.  Understand the department's expectations to find proactive ways to support the goals of the department.  
• Change Catalyst: Ability to encourage others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches when addressing problems and opportunities. Ability to be nimble and willing to pivot if new data becomes available that can influence outcomes; understands that change is constant and requires flexibility. 
• Communication: Communicates effectively with individuals with different backgrounds; ability to communicate in a way that is consistent, competent and confident while choosing words carefully and articulates expectations clearly.
• Motivation: Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach goals and/or perform to the best of their ability.
• Dynamic Mindset: Focuses on building resilience in employees, promote innovation and creativity, and foster a commitment to professional growth.       
• Collaboration: Willingness to work with colleagues across departments specifically when job processes are integrated to strategically focus on ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness for students. 
• Data Analysis: Uses data as a key component to assess performance towards goals supporting student success; uses data to determine current trends and issues and predict future impacts to the students and/or college.  Plans for the future. 
• Relationship Building: Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to establish positive and respectful working relationships with students, staff, and faculty. 
• Coaching & Mentoring: Coaches and/or mentors direct reports and emerging leaders within the college. Willingness to share personal experience to guide their growth; seeks coaching to continue own personal growth. 
• Evaluation for Improvement: Reviews evaluations of programs and services and seeks ways to improve performance where data reveals that achievement is not on track.  Implements changes and reassess; willingness to phase out programs and services that are not relevant to current and future needs.   

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in higher education or project management related field.
• 5 years’ experience in higher education administration such as admissions, enrollment, advising, accreditation, institutional research, assessment, strategic planning, or student affairs

OR 

• 5 years’ experience in Project Management in another field, outside of Higher Education.

AND

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including digital content strategy experience. 

Selection Process:

The selection process for this position will be conducted through a competitive, merit-based evaluation of all qualified applicants. Preliminary screening will be based on the completed application package submitted by the candidate.

Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of August 8, 2026.

This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.

Application Instructions:

In your application, please include a resume and cover letter that specifically address how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.

The application will ask for you to provide three references. We ask that they are all professional references and at least one is a current/recent supervisor.

Additional Information/Benefits:

Salary Information: The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate’s education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position’s scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value.

Benefits Information: For information about benefits for Administrative, Professional and Technical Employees and Faculty, please see the Front Range Community College Benefits page.

Welcoming. Respectful. Inclusive. Together, we are FRCC.

Director, Transfer & Emerging Students