Part-Time Career Navigator (Denver, CO)

About the role

The Summer Search Business Development team partners with client organizations to support the implementation of their mentorship and apprenticeship programs. Summer Search has partnered with Aon since 2021 providing professional support to their apprentices. The Part-time Career Navigator will provide individualized coaching and mentoring to apprentices and guidance to managers supervising early-career employees.

Responsibilities

• Apprentice Support & Coaching (40%): Conduct initial one-on-one intake assessments with apprentices and their managers to understand career and academic goals, employment background, and support needs. Meet regularly with apprentices (weekly or biweekly) to support their workplace readiness, foundational skill development, and professional growth. Provide coaching and referrals for apprentices facing barriers such as childcare, transportation, housing, or other personal needs impacting participation. Maintain consistent communication with apprentices to track academic standing, work-based learning, and overall well-being. Track apprentice engagement, attendance, and case notes using tracking tools and templates provided. Collaborate with apprentices, managers, Summer Search, and the Aon Program Team to develop individualized Success Agreement Plans, or intervention plans when required.
• Manager Engagement (20%): Connect with apprentice managers monthly via email, Teams, or through in-person meetings to discuss progress, share feedback, and provide guidance on supporting apprentices. Encourage and facilitate balanced feedback between managers and apprentices, emphasizing positive reinforcement alongside constructive guidance, using Summer Search and Aon frameworks. Remind managers to complete required Apprentice Status Reports and competency check-ins.
• Program Monitoring & Communication (15%): Partner with the Aon Program Team to support all apprentices in meeting graduation requirements within the two-year program. Proactively raise and document any high-risk or concerning situations (academic, personal, or professional) through established reporting channels.
• Professional Development Program (20%): Plan, coordinate, and facilitate monthly in-person professional development sessions, in collaboration with the Summer Search team. Coordinate event logistics including scheduling, and on-site arrangements such as booking rooms and sending invites to apprentices. Track apprentice participation in professional development sessions to support progress documentation.
• Other Duties (5%): Provide occasional support for recruiting and engagement activities for Apprentice program, including career fairs, open houses, final round apprentice interviews, graduation celebrations, or other local program needs.

Qualifications

• Experience: At least 3 years of experience in workforce development or career advising, preferably working with early career individuals.
• Accountability: Holds self and others responsible for process, decisions, actions and commitments to results and to drive high-quality outcomes for students, is responsive to needs of stakeholders (students, donors, community partners, staff members, alumni, volunteers).
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Inspires and fosters commitment, connection, enthusiasm, and trust, facilitates cooperation and motivates people to accomplish goals, manages, and resolves conflicts and handles interpersonal issues constructively.
• Project Management: Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to juggle multiple workflows and easily adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment. Prior experience leading project teams and managing external partners/vendors.
• Critical Consciousness: Recognizes sociopolitical barriers and understands the systems of oppression that operate in day-to-day lives of stakeholders e.g. students/participants, staff members, community partners, and alumni. Applies critical thinking and takes action against the oppressive aspects of reality.
• Tech Skills: Basic proficiency with Microsoft Suite.

What You Bring

• Strong relationship builder who is consistent and reliable in their communication and project management.
• Experienced in workforce development or career advising, preferably with early career individuals.
• Highly accountable, holds self and others responsible for process, decisions, actions, and commitments to results.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, inspires and fosters commitment, connection, enthusiasm, and trust.
• Strong project management skills, able to manage multiple workflows and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Prior experience leading project teams and managing external partners/vendors.
• Recognizes sociopolitical barriers and applies critical thinking to take action against oppressive aspects of reality.
• Basic proficiency with Microsoft Suite.

Location, Hours

This is a part-time, 15-hour position, 3 days a week, 5 hours per day. This is an in-person position with presence required at the Aon organization office in Denver, CO. Some flexibility in accommodating remote work may be possible on occasion and upon mutual agreement.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive and transparent salaries. Starting salary of $40/hour. Retention bonuses after one and two years of continuous employment: $2,500 each.
• Well-being, flexibility, and ongoing learning and development are pillars of our culture. Refresh Fridays – a paid day off the first Friday of every month!
• A comprehensive Employee Recognition Program (years of service awards and spot awards), Individual, local, regional and national training, Commitment to developing leaders from within the organization, Organizational culture that supports staff well-being and holistic self-care/community care, Ample opportunities to connect with the students and communities we serve.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Summer Search is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an organization with critical consciousness to impact how we work with students, as well as how we work together as a team.