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Kentucky Community & Technical College System

Transfer Coordinator

🇺🇸 Louisville, KY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $43K - $47K

💻 Other

🗓️ September 8th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Kentucky Community and Technical College is hiring a Transfer Coordinator. The role involves working with students, faculty, and staff to ensure smooth transitions for incoming transfer students and those transferring to partner colleges or universities. The coordinator manages caseloads, collaborates with institutions to create transfer pathways, organizes transfer events, and provides advising and credit evaluation support.

Highlights
  • Manage caseload of first-semester transfer students to Jefferson.
  • Represent Jefferson on the KCTCS Transfer Peer Team and collaborate with 4-year institutions.
  • Organize Annual Transfer Fairs and schedule campus visits, workshops, and information sessions.
  • Collaborate with Admissions, Records, and other departments to support transfer enrollment.
  • Provide in-person and virtual transfer advising, including credit evaluation for appropriate course enrollment.
  • Maintain the Transfer Center website and transfer student data.
  • Use retention management software for scheduling, documentation, referrals, and reporting.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Education, Higher Education, Counseling, or related field with two years of relevant experience required.
  • Preferred qualifications include additional related experience and strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
  • Salary range from $43,000 to $46,500 annually with comprehensive benefits including health coverage, tuition reimbursement, retirement plan, paid holidays, and employee assistance programs.

Transfer Coordinator Full Description

Title: Transfer Coordinator 
Salary Range: $43,000.00 to $46,500.00
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
College: Jefferson Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Jefferson Community College
Department: Transfer
Total Rewards
Jefferson 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
The Transfer Department of Jefferson Community and Technical College has an opening for a Transfer Coordinator. The primary responsibility of this position is to work with students, faculty and staff to ensure a seamless transition to incoming transfer students and students transferring to partner colleges/universities.

Job Duties:
Duties include but are not limited to:
• Maintain caseload comprised of 1st semester students who have transferred to Jefferson.
• Represent Jefferson on the KCTCS Transfer Peer Team.
• Collaborate with faculty, staff and 4-year partners to create/establish transfer pathways.
• Collaborate with 4-year institutions and professional schools to schedule campus visits, information sessions, and workshops on Jefferson campuses.
• Organize Annual Transfer Fairs in Fall and/or Spring semesters.
• Travel to various 4-year colleges/universities. May require some evening and/or weekend hours.
• Collaborate with Admissions, Records and other institutional departments to assess and support enrollment of current and prospective transfer students to and from Jefferson.
• Work to provide student, faculty & staff information regarding transfer.
• Update and maintain the Transfer Center website and other information sources.
• Maintain data on students identified as incoming transfer students.
• Provide advising (in-person and virtual) with in-coming transfer students.
• Ability to evaluate official and unofficial transfer credits for appropriate course enrollment.
• Utilize retention management software for scheduling, adding advising notes, making appropriate referrals, and reporting.
• Assist with college retention and outreach initiatives.
• Other duties as required to support a focus on college transfer and student success.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree (Education, Higher Education, Counseling, or related field), and two years related experience, or equivalent. Candidates should have experience in higher education, preferably at a community college, and should be flexible and have the ability to manage multiple tasks. Candidates must have excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. 
Preferred Qualifications:Bachelor’s Degree and additional related experience preferred.

Candidate will have strong interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills. Must be able to multi-task and think independently.
Additional Skills Requested:Physical Requirements:
Comfortable environment and sedentary work: no unusual physical requirements

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