Career Counselor

Position Title: Career Counselor

Summary of Duties: 

The Career Counselor is responsible for planning, coordinating, developing and implementing a professional, personal, social development and career counseling program for assigned students.

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

    Provides ongoing structured, scheduled and documented individual career counseling sessions, which may be scheduled as part of a student’s career development activity. 

    Assists in Center adjustment and serves as a liaison between students, staff, family, and community services: Assists with students’ arrivals. Confers with parents, admissions counselors, CTS, social service agencies and other community resources to ensure adjustment to Center. . 

    Identifies student’s personal and academic issues so that the appropriate support can be provided.

    Monitors students’ accountability to include leaves, attendance and AWOL retrieval. 

    Administers students’ Evaluation of Student Progress (ESP).  Ensures that each student has an evaluation by their 60th day on Center. 

    Provides assistance in the development of the students’ Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP). Update PCDP whenever a student’s plan changes.

    Ensures that students develop Career Success Standards (CSS) by providing individual and group lessons or project assignments during and after the training day and on weekends to help student’s master competencies in all standards with clearly established performance levels for these activities. 

    Provide students with special projects and/or activities to assist them in meeting CSS which have been determined to need improvement. 

    Provides accurate documentation of student’s matriculation throughout CPP: Ensures the case noting is used to describe each student’s progress, barriers, issues, etc. Ensures that regular communication is documented to include individual and group counseling sessions, AWOL retrieval efforts, ESP results, PCDP updates, leaves submitted accurately and timely as well as barriers to employability and transition. 

    Plans, prioritizes and organizes assignments to meet established goals and deadlines.  

    Provides quality programs and services for students and ensures that quality is maintained and student needs are met.  Pursues improvement and enhancement of programs and services.

    Exchanges ideas and information, both orally and in writing, in a clear and concise manner and contributes meaningfully to group efforts by offering relevant ideas and knowledge.  Provides quality and timely information to DOL/Company when requested.

    Effectively articulates thoughts and ideas.  Identifies problems, analyzes causes and evaluates appropriate solutions prior to taking or recommending actions.  Follows up to ensure prompt/appropriate action is taken and that problems are in fact corrected.

    Works in partnership with staff from all Departments to ensure effective supervision and services are provided to students.

Education and Experience    Bachelor’s Degree with at least 15 semester hours of instruction in Social Services related area. One year’s experience in counseling related services. Above average public speaking skills and experience in the same. Above average verbal, written, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills. Computer literacy skills.