College Advisor - Educational Talent Search, Center Educational Partnerships

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.

• 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.

• Conducts all aspects of ETS program activities and objectives in compliance with the U.S. Department of Education regulations pertaining to federally funded TRIO programs specifically Educational Talent Search.
• Designs, implements, and delivers appropriate 9th-12th grade level workshops, curricula materials, and activities to enhance the college-going rates at each assigned school site for ETS participants.
• In collaboration with school site personnel, other student service programs, and parents to establish and foster a college-going culture among the staff and participants at each assigned school site.
• Delivers in-person and virtual college-going, career, socioemotional workshops to ETS participants and families at program, community, and school-sponsored events.
• Establishes positive working relationships with assigned school site personnel; designs and implements a strategic plan of operation detailed to meet the needs of each assigned school site based on the cohort.
• Develops and maintains relationships with parents/families to support cohort academic success and access to higher education.
• Acts as an advocate for participants and parents/families base on the cohort.
• Develops collaborative relationships with other college-going programs and K-12 and higher education personnel.
• Establishes and maintains comprehensive collaborative partnerships with other school sites, community-based programs, and school districts to maximize referral and services to enrolled participants.
• Participates in strategic and program planning to meet the diverse socioemotional and educational needs of the student populations as assigned school or community sites.
• Plans and implements program-sponsored college-going field trips, socioemotional and cultural enrichment activities appropriate for cohort participants.
• Organizes and/or…