Allied Health Counselor Tenure-Track Fresno City College

Allied Health Counselor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Fresno City College

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• Posting Number: AA
• Title:
  
  Allied Health Counselor (Full-Time, Tenure-Track) Fresno City College
• Campus
  
  Location:
  
  Fresno City College
• Start Date:
  
  06/08/2026

At Fresno City College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity‑minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students, and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race‑consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments; and
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Fresno City College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship, and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Fresno City College.

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the 2024‑2025 academic year, we enrolled over 45,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% as Black/African American, 14% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 2% as multiracial. Fresno City College is a Hispanic‑Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well‑being of the surrounding community.

The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of a curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Reporting to the Dean of Student Services, Counseling at Fresno City College; it will cover a full range of counseling responsibilities in the Health Sciences division including academic, career and personal counseling with individuals and groups in addition to teaching discipline specific courses. Maintain close working relationships with the dean, program director(s), instructional faculty, ROP programs and community health organizations. The successful candidate for the Counselor position will be responsible for:

• Providing comprehensive counseling services for students including academic, career, personal and life transitions counseling on an appointment basis;
• Providing group counseling sessions, orientations, and workshops;
• Assisting students in clarifying their educational goals, selection of courses, and developing Student Educational Plans (SEPs);
• Monitoring student progress through comprehensive electronic data systems;
• Maintaining close working relationships with program and other instructional faculty, feeder high schools, and community resources agencies;
• Working with a diverse population of students to emphasize strategies for educational planning and transfer preparation;
• Collaborating with instructional and counseling faculty, staff from other departments and programs, including Financial Aid, Admissions and Records, EOPS / CARE , DSP &S, CalWORKs, Puente, UMOJA , USEAA , Veterans/International, TRiO, Student Support Services, College Relations and Outreach, and other programs;
• Utilizing and keeping abreast of advanced counseling methods and student development theories that include integrating technology to…