Position Summary:

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As Colorado’s premier designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority-Serving Institution (MSI), Adams State University invites candidates to empower first-generation learners and underserved scholars including those in our innovative Prison Education Program. In this role, the Financial Aid Advisor joins our Enrollment Management Division to streamline student processes so scholars can focus on their academic and personal success.

What You Will Do

As a dedicated Financial Aid Advisor, your work will drive student achievement across three key areas:

• Student Empowerment & Counseling: Each Financial Aid Advisor counsels students and families on FAFSA completion, eligibility, financial aid packaging, scholarship applications, student budgets, and debt management.
• Data Management & Audit Readiness: Ensure rigorous data accuracy and document integrity by seamlessly processing high volumes of physical paperwork into secure digital systems, completing FAFSA verification, and generating program reports.
• Prison Education Program Leadership: The Financial Aid Advisor prioritizes work supporting the Prison Education Program and Revised Second Chance Pell program activities, including in-person outreach to correctional facilities.
• Outreach & Systems Operations: Every Financial Aid Advisor utilizes federal systems (NSLDS, COD, FPP) to process student aid accurately while facilitating orientation labs, FAFSA workshops, and recruitment presentations.

What You Bring

Minimum Qualifications for the Financial Aid Advisor:

• Education: Associates Degree or equivalent college credit
• Experience: 2 Years of prior relevant work experience
• Service & Collaboration: Delivers high-quality customer care in difficult circumstances while building strong, cooperative relationships across all university levels. 
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in Microsoft Office, Google applications, and databases, with proven adaptability in digital environments. 
• Mobility & Flexibility: Able to travel for workshops, conferences, and correctional facility visits, with flexibility for additional peak-period time commitment. 

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Campus & Location: Located in Alamosa, Colorado, in the San Luis Valley, every Financial Aid Advisor benefits from incredible outdoor access, vibrant local culture, and exceptional quality of life.
• Compensation & Perks: Salary range of $35,568–$49,800 for this 12-month exempt position. The Financial Aid Advisor role offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, FSAs, life insurance, and retirement plans.

Ready to Join Us?

Are you ready to transform lives as our next Financial Aid Advisor? We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Priority Consideration: Please submit your application materials by October 30, 2026 for priority consideration.

Completed applications include:
• Cover Letter

• Resume

Apply today! For questions, please contact Russell Shawcroft [email protected]

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Adams State University is committed to building and expanding the talent of its professional staff and actively seeks qualified applicants who bring unique perspectives, experiences, skills, and attributes that can augment the perspectives of our current faculty and staff and can contribute to serving and preparing our students to engage and thrive in their learning, leadership, and service.

We strive to create a more representative workforce that mirrors the people who study, work, and lead our institution and welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life, especially members of communities who fall within state and federally protected classes such as: women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, and people with disabilities.

We value qualified candidates, with varied language skills, who have a record of successful experience with varied communities and student populations, and who have a deep understanding of and commitment to the unique geographical and historical characteristics of the place we are situated in and the intersecting perspectives that define our university being a low-income, first-generation, and Hispanic-serving, rural anchor university. Therefore, we seek individuals committed to intentionally supporting students and colleagues who possess these characteristics through their teaching, service, and scholarship.

The successful candidate will join a campus that is dedicated to inclusive excellence and acknowledges Adams State’s purpose to foster the educational goals of its students and the well-being of the surrounding community.

Additional information about the university and the academic mission may be found at www.adams.edu/academics/
 

Disclosures:

In compliance with the Immigration Control Act of 1968 candidates for positions must provide proof of eligibility to work before an offer of employment can be made final.

Adams State University is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for its students, faculty, staff and visitors, and to protecting its funds, property and other assets. Well-informed hiring decisions contribute to this effort. Therefore, Adams State University has adopted a policy on background screening for its prospective, continuing, and returning employees as well as students in certain circumstances. Offers of employment will be contingent upon the completion of an acceptable background check. The information received in response to a background check will be treated as confidential to the extent provided for by law.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Part 106 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including in admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and CFR 106 to Adams State University (ASU) may be directed to ASU's Office of Equal Opportunity, and/or to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education. Support resources for sexual misconduct, ASU's  sexual misconduct policies, contact information for the Adams State University's Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, as well as a detailed  procedure for filing a grievance due to discrimination on the basis of sex may be found online at  https://www.adams.edu/administration/oeo/reporting-sexual-harassment/.  These  procedures also describe the University's response to reports and/or complaints of sex discrimination or sexual harassment.  

Adams State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Applications are sought from all qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, disability, and, as covered by law, veteran status. In addition, University policies prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation including transgender status and gender expression, marital status, and parental status.