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Position Summary:
The Director runs the daily operations of the Veterans Center. This role focuses on helping veterans, military service members, and their families (dependents/survivors) succeed in college. This includes eligible students who are incarcerated. The Director manages VA education benefits, creates helpful student programs, and builds partnerships to secure resources and funding.
Specific Job Duties (Essential Functions and Responsibilities)
Compliance, Benefits Administration, & Operations
- Process and approve student enrollment with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) so students receive their benefits.
- Keep student enrollment statuses updated in the “VA-Once” system following strict VA rules.
- Provide the VA with any additional information they need to process student benefits in a timely manner.
- Keep up-to-date agreements with the VA and the US Department of Defense.
- Maintain a safe and organized database of all students using VA benefits to track their academic progress in collaboration with Student Business Services.
- Manage, update, and maintain the department’s website and any social media accounts.
- Other duties as assigned.
Student Support, Recruitment, & Advocacy
- Advise students on how to use their VA educational benefits and explain any limits to those benefits.
- Answer questions and help them solve issues with their military education benefits.
- Create a welcoming, user-friendly campus environment that connects students to financial, cultural, and social support services.
- Build programs to recruit new veteran students and help them successfully transition into college life.
- Review data and research to create student programs that value and support diverse cultural backgrounds.
- Act as a strong voice and advocate for military-connected students when they face challenges.
Community Outreach & Institutional Collaboration
- Work with the Office of Student Business Services to fix student tuition and fees payment issues.
- Work with the Director of the Prison Education Program (PEP) to support incarcerated veterans and their families.
- Build strong partnerships with local, state, and national veteran organizations (like Project Healing Waters and Veterans Suicide Prevention) to gain resources.
- Represent the Center at university events, student group meetings, and staff meetings.
Strategic Leadership & Policy Development
- Set short-term and long-term goals and plans for the Center.
- Create and suggest university policies to campus leaders that improve support for military-connected students.
- Track and evaluate how well the Center’s programs are working to grow veteran enrollment.
- Build a friendly environment that focuses on clear communication across different departments.
- Understand your own personal beliefs and privileges.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- 3-5 years experience working in higher education, Student Affairs, or Veteran Services.
- Demonstrated experience working with VA educational benefits and/or serving as a School Certifying Official.
- Excellent skills in sharing information clearly and working effectively with others through written, digital, and face-to-face communication.
- Ability to treat others with respect, civility, and courtesy and to work honestly, effectively, and collegially with employees, students, and the community. This includes the ability to use appropriate conflict management skills to effectively manage any disagreement that might arise or to bring the disagreement to management for assistance in productive resolution when the situation requires.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Veteran
- Experience developing and evaluating policies and procedures.
Location: On-site in Alamosa, CO
Salary and Benefits:
The salary range for this position is $47,400-$56,900. In addition to salary, Adams State University offers a competitive benefits program including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, and retirement savings plans. For detailed benefits information please visit our Human Resources Benefits Page.
How to Apply:
All interested candidates must submit application materials electronically through Adams State University’s Workday application portal.
No other format of application material will be accepted.
Completed applications must include the following:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Unofficial transcripts (official transcripts will be necessary at the time of appointment)
- Three professional references, including phone number and email for each
For full consideration, applications should be received by 7/17/2026. Review of applications will begin immediately after this date.
The position will remain open until filled. Applications received after the priority deadline may be reviewed at the discretion of the search committee.
Questions about the position may be directed to Savala DeVoge at [email protected].
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.
