Academic Counselor

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Academic Counselor to join our team at Yosemite Community College District. As an Academic Counselor, you will play a vital role in supporting and encouraging the enrollment, retention, and academic goal attainment of students seeking counseling.

• Conduct individual student counseling appointments, including drop-in meetings and group workshops.
• Help students understand the increasingly complex process of applying to college and registering for classes.
• Assist students with determining career goals and linking those goals to a corresponding educational objective.
• Advise students with making course selections and help them to create an Educational Plan that utilizes the digital software advantages of Starfish Degree Planner.
• Discuss university transfer options and help students to make positive and realistic transfer decisions.
• Refer students to appropriate student support and educational services on campus.
• Monitor, support, and encourage struggling students during the academic and/or progress probation process, and dismissal appeal process.
• Serve as liaison with CSU and UC systems, and private and out-of-state institutions, to gather and disseminate ever-changing information to students.
• Teach a wide variety of Guidance classes; part of the teaching assignment may be online, in the evening, and/or on Saturdays or include off-campus sites.
• Recognize how to constructively apply referrals to students for ongoing mental health (therapeutic) counseling, instructional support, and other student services as needed.
• Refer to campus and community partners who provide resources for basic needs; housing, food, and childcare insecure students as needed.

• Master's degree in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, or career development, marriage and family therapy, or marriage, family and child counseling, OR the equivalent.
• Knowledge of and ability to appraise the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.
• Sensitivity to the needs, problems and challenges associated with the diversity of the community college student population.

• Evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the racial, socio-economic, academic, and cultural diversity within student populations, including students with disabilities, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practices.
• Education and/or experience in teaching in Guidance or Skills Development at the community college level.
• Competency in current pedagogies, such as accelerated learning, supplemental instruction, online or hybrid teaching, and other strategies directed at improving student success and student equity.
• Personal qualifications such as: effective interpersonal communication skills, participation in community affairs, ability to conduct effective public presentations.

• Mobility: ability to sit or stand for long periods, move about an office, and reach above and below desk level.
• Dexterity: fine manipulation sufficient to operate a keyboard, handle individual papers, write, and take notes.
• Lifting: occasional lifting of papers, files, equipment, and material weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Visual Requirements: close vision sufficient to do close-up work, read files, documents, and computer screens, and the ability to adjust focus frequently.
• Hearing/Talking: ability to hear normal speech, speak and hear on the telephone, and speak in person.
• Emotional/Psychological Factors: ability to make decisions and concentrate; have frequent contact with others, including some public contact; and to meet frequent deadlines and time-limited assignments.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.