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Kentucky Community & Technical College System

Program Facilitator / Career Navigator

🇺🇸 Owensboro, KY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $42K - $44K

💻 Academic Advising

🗓️ June 17th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Kentucky Community and Technical College is hiring a Program Facilitator / Career Navigator to guide adult students through career and educational programs by providing recruitment, retention, and intervention support. The role involves managing work and learn programs, certificate and apprenticeship initiatives, and helping students overcome barriers from enrollment to completion while reporting to the Workforce Solutions department.

Highlights
  • Recruit students for work and learn, short-term credential, workforce development, and apprenticeship programs using social media and strategic marketing.
  • Manage employer-sponsored programs, including apprenticeships and short-term credential programs.
  • Serve as Career Navigator and Success Coach by providing case management, advising, mentoring, and coordinating admissions and financial aid processes.
  • Support student retention and intervention strategies to ensure career navigation and program completion.
  • Maintain organized records and adhere to internal and external deadlines.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; fields include Communication, Business, Social Sciences, Student Services, or related areas, plus four years of related work experience or equivalent.
  • Must manage multiple programs simultaneously and assist with marketing and recruitment efforts, especially via social media platforms.
  • Salary range between $42,000 and $44,000 annually with a 12-month contract term.
  • Reports to the Workforce Solutions department within Owensboro Community and Technical College.
  • Offers benefits including health, vision, dental coverage, tuition reimbursement/waiver, a 403(b) retirement plan with employer match, paid time off, holidays, and employee assistance programs.

Program Facilitator / Career Navigator Full Description

Title: Program Facilitator / Career Navigator
Salary Range: $42,000 - $44,000
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.5
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
College: Owensboro Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Owensboro Community College
Department: Workforce Solutions
Total Rewards

Owensboro Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
  • Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
  • Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
  • 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
  • Vacation/Sick Time
  • Work-Life Balance
  • 9.5 Paid Holidays
  • 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
  • Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary
Owensboro Community and Technical College is recruiting for a Program Facilitator/Career Navigator position to help adult students achieve their career and educational goals through innovative work and learn programs. This position supports student success by providing recruitment, retention, and intervention efforts for certificate programs and other short-term credential pathways. This position guides students from enrollment to completion, helping them overcome barriers to stay on track. Occasional evening hours may be required for recruiting events and success coach services. This position reports to our Workforce Solutions department.

Job Duties:
• Recruit students for work and learn and short-term credential programs, as well as other workforce development initiatives, and apprenticeship programs. This will involve making weekly posts to social media platforms and other strategic marketing efforts.
• Provide project management with a particular focus on employer-sponsored programs. This includes work and learn programs, apprenticeships, and short-term credential programs.
• Serve as a Career Navigator and Success Coach and manage student success activities to ensure career navigation, student retention, and intervention strategies are employed. This includes providing a case management approach to guarantee student success, including assistance with admissions, financial aid, scholarship, third-party payments, and other applicable applications and necessary documentation in a timely manner and according to established internal and external deadlines. This also includes overseeing the advising, mentoring, college and/or career transitioning efforts, particularly as designated within a specific program, project, or partnership.
• Perform all other WS duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (Communication, Business, Social Sciences, Student Services, Educational Leadership, or related areas) and four (4) years related work experience or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Skills Requested:
• Must be committed to managing different programs at one time.
• Must be able to maintain organized records and adhere to multiple established internal and external deadlines.
• Must be able to assist with marketing and recruitment efforts through the utilization of social media platforms.

Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection ActEqual Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.