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Career and Transfer Counselor (Tenure Track)
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Position Number: 5743949
Location: Pleasant Hill, CA
Position Type: Education - Counselor Education

Career and Transfer Counselor (Tenure Track)

Posting Number: F01168
Location: Diablo Valley College
Salary:

Description of Position:
Diablo Valley College inspires, educates, and empowers a diverse community of students to transform their lives and their communities. DVC counselors/instructors close the equity gaps by fostering success among all students. To help further this work, DVC seeks a tenure-track Career and Transfer Counselor to start in Fall 2025.

We are looking for a colleague who will demonstrate discipline expertise and show sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic backgrounds and abilities of community college students.

We are looking for counselors/instructors who share a strong commitment to social and racial justice and who use or are inspired to use anti-racist pedagogies that close equity gaps by recognizing, understanding, and respecting the perspectives of all students.

We strongly encourage those with historically marginalized and/or underrepresented identities to apply, including people of color, non-binary and transgender individuals, women, and Indigenous people.

DVC is one of the top California Community Colleges for transfer, regularly granting the most ADTs across the state, as well as significant numbers of successful transfers into the most selective UCs and CSUs. Our Career and Transfer Center plays a pivotal role in the success of our students and campus.

This role will work in close collaboration with the Career & Transfer Center Manager, Transfer and Career Program Coordinators to create and deliver transfer and career services especially focused on meeting the needs of underrepresented and underprepared students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.

This position will require that the individual use a variety of counseling techniques and strategies to provide academic, career and personal counseling services to all students. In addition, the individual will be delivering services through teaching courses and facilitating workshops.

Over the academic year, this counselor will serve a significant number of students through drop-ins, appointments, group sessions and workshops, including UC/CSU/Out-of-State/HBCU Applications, Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG) and UC Personal Insight Questions (PIQs) review appointments, as well as build and maintain relationships with campus partners and university admissions representatives.

Among other counseling interventions, this position will assist students in exploring careers and majors, understanding educational pathways, identifying research, internship, and job opportunities, connecting to transfer support programs and resources, developing their career portfolio, and overcoming obstacles to success.

Inquiries:
For inquiries regarding the position, please contact Maria Dawson, Counselor, at mdawson@dvc.edu, or 925-969-2146.

Position Status: Tenure- Track
EEO Job Category: Faculty & Other Instructional Staff
Employee Group: Full-Time Faculty
Department: D4000-Counseling Division

Duties and Responsibilities:
In addition to contractual duties for this position which will include counseling and program coordination, all faculty are expected to participate actively in their disciplines, in their departmental activities and in the general intellectual life and governance of the college. Part of the counseling assignment may be in the evening program. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Counsel students (face to face and distance/online) in the exploration and decision-making process of developing and pursuing educational, career, and personal goals, including complicated transfer and career related situations especially for those facing additional barriers. Meet with students through appointments and drop-ins to assess their academic and career goals and personal needs
Provide educational planning assistance for students with an emphasis on underrepresented and underprepared students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds
Counsel students in exploring majors, careers, and current and future employment trends to help them to make informed, intentional education and career decisions. Assist students in exploring and evaluating career options based on individual skills and interests
Develop and lead workshops and trainings related to transfer and career related topics including but not limited to transfer preparation, TAG, UC and CSU application processes, HBCU and private or out of state transfer, major exploration, decision-making, occupational exploration, and career and life planning
Adhere to the schedule that has been developed with the Department Chairpersons and Career and Transfer Center Manager, which may include individual student appointments, drop-in services, group counseling, workshops, events, and weekend and/or evening assignments
Collaborate with the Career and Transfer team including the Career & Transfer Center Manager and Coordinators in evaluating and designing resources, services, and activities necessary for supporting students seeking transfer and career opportunities
Support the update and implementation of the Transfer Services Plan, Program Review, Vision Aligned Reporting (VAR) and other important plans and reports including entering and reporting data through data gathering tools such as SARS for student interactions including appointments, drop-ins, workshops, classroom visits, and outreach
Participate in the college governance process, including attendance at all department and division meetings, and serving on college wide committees
Promote the philosophy that integrates counseling and mentoring to support student learning
Participate in required training and activities such as conferences, regional meetings, outreach, orientations for students, community activities & social/cultural events, field trips, mentorship, advisory groups, etc.
Participate in professional development activities to maintain current transfer, articulation, and career knowledge areas, including external trainings and conferences, and departmental and college wide meetings and trainings
Create a positive environment that provides students with the support/motivation likely to enable them to transfer and gain employment
Maintain current knowledge of counseling techniques and other effective student support intervention strategies
Engage in outreach targeting feeder high schools and community groups
Maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics
Perform other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualification-Education/Experience:
Understanding of and sensitivity to the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, sexual orientation and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, staff and faculty.

The applicant must possess one of the following qualifications (earned degrees must be from an accredited college/university):

a. Master's in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling,
b. OR the equivalent
c. (NOTE: A bachelor's degree in one of the listed degrees and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) is an alternative qualification for this discipline.)

If you do not possess the EXACT minimum qualifications (i.e., you do not possess the EXACT degree title listed) and believe that you meet the minimum qualifications, fill out the equivalency petition form in the document section of the online application. If you are unsure that you meet the minimum qualifications, please fill out the equivalency petition.

Desirable Qualifications:
Highly qualified candidates will possess knowledge, skills, and experience that address the desirable qualifications below. Responses to the supplemental questions below allow the applicant to describe how they meet these qualifications.

Demonstrated commitment to student learning and promoting success of all community college students from diverse cultures, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and/or disabilities in an open access learning environment, with emphasis on serving Latinx, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and Veteran populations and people of varying levels of academic preparation and varying physical and learning abilities
Demonstrated ability to teach transfer and career workshops and/or courses in college student success, and/or career and life planning
Demonstrated sensitivity and ability to motivate, counsel and teach traditionally underrepresented and underprepared students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds, individually, in groups, and in program settings
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and lend leadership to projects designed to support the success of college students in community college
Demonstrated experience providing transfer and career counseling with community college student population

Job Open Date: 10/22/2024
Job Close Date: 1/8/2025
Open Until Filled: No
Employment Begins: Fall 2025
# of Months: 10

To apply, visit: https://www.4cdcareers.net/postings/10949

The Contra Costa Community College District does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, sex, or sexual orientation. This prohibition against unlawful discrimination extends to any person who is perceived to have any of the above characteristics or who is associated with someone who has, or who is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.