College Advisor - Educational Talent Search , Center Educational Partnerships

College Advisor - Educational Talent Search (4535U), Center for Educational Partnerships - #89178

At the University of California, Berkeley , we are dedicated to fostering a community where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. Our culture of openness, freedom, and belonging makes it a special place for students, faculty, and staff, who are among the most talented and accomplished anywhere, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and Mac Arthur Fellows. Since our founding in 1868, we have been an engine for innovation - driving intellectual, economic, and social progress that benefits California, the U.S., and beyond.

Together, we change the world.

At Berkeley, the best careers are built on a foundation of continuous learning and growth . We actively support professional development by providing all full-time staff employees with at least 80 hours of paid time per year and provide space for supportive colleague communities via numerous employee resource groups.

The Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) is the primary department on the UC Berkeley campus charged with developing and implementing programs and strategies to improve academic preparation, expand educational opportunities, and ensure access to higher education for low-income, first generation, and underrepresented students.

Working in partnership with local schools and communities, CEP improves academic achievement and expands post-secondary educational opportunities for students who face significant barriers to college.

The College Advisor plans, develops, implements, and evaluates programs, activities, counseling, tutoring, and advising focused on students' successful graduation from high school and college, and career readiness. This position works with students, program alumni, teachers, counselors, school districts, community stakeholders, and parents.

The First Review Date for this job is:
October 14, 2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

Recruitment, Advising, and Retention - 35%

• Identifies, recruits, and selects high school participants through school staff referrals, class presentations, summer activities, school media, and correspondence.
• Introduces the concept of higher education to middle school and/or high school participants and their parents.
• Interprets and demystifies complex and ever-evolving college admission requirements, test preparation, and financial aid application for cohort participants and their families.
• Provides cohort participants with current and concise information on colleges that include community colleges, vocational/technical schools, private colleges, California universities, and out-of-state universities.
• Delivers in-person and virtual individual and group advising services along with maintaining relationships with middle school and high school participants.
• Develops comprehensive education plan for each participant in advisors caseload with regards to their academic path from middle school to high school and subsequent enrollment in post-secondary education.
• Reviews and analyzes all cohort participant transcripts every semester to ensure student progress and success.
• Provides related career exposure, advisement, and personal self-improvement activities to help cohort participants establish attainable academic and career life goals.
• Facilitates the educational advancement of cohort participants enrolled in the program from middle school to high school or high school to college.
• Develop digital marketing and branding material for recruitment, programming, workshops, and activities.
• Performs follow-up advisement with matriculating 8th-grade participants to high school.

Program Development,…