NOTE: THE COLLEGE IS SEEKING TO FILL SIX FULL TIME APSS POSITIONS.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Academic Program Support Specialist (APSS) serves CCA’s Academic Success Division, providing excellent customer service with front desk and administrative support services to academic leadership, department chairs, faculty, instructors, staff, and students. The specialist possesses a general knowledge of higher education and administrative and project management knowledge and skills. This person has the ability to perform tasks autonomously, with keen attention to detail, and the ability to adapt to unexpected changes. The specialist interacts effectively with constituents and stakeholders, from diverse backgrounds, inside and outside the college in a variety of mediums (face-to-face, online, and over the phone). This person also provides liaison services to college-wide personnel through excellent communication and project management skills.
OVERVIEW OF CCA
The Community College of Aurora serves our diverse community by providing high-quality instruction and support services to prepare students for transfer and employment. We are particularly interested in applicants that demonstrate a commitment to working with individuals and groups from diverse identities, including but not limited to: socioeconomic, cultural, sexual orientation, gender identity expression, disability, multilingual learners, veterans, non-traditional, race and ethnic backgrounds
We actively promote a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry. CCA enrolls 11,000 students annually, over 62% of whom are students of color, including nearly 32% Hispanic students, 65% of CCA students receive some type of financial aid, including 52% of whom receive Pell grants, and nearly two-thirds are first-generation college students.
More than 20 different languages and 60 countries are represented at CCA. In addition to traditional degree and certificate programs, CCA offers non-credit professional development courses, customized training, and economic and workforce development resources to employer partners and individual professionals seeking to enhance the capacity and productivity of their workforce or individual knowledge and skills. The college centers diversity, equity, and inclusion and we actively seek to employee partners who want to join us in working to reducing outcome gaps among our diverse student population.