Counselor Tenure-Track Madera Community College

Counselor (Full‑Time, Tenure‑Track) Madera Community College Please see Special Instructions for more details.

This is a full‑time, tenure‑track position. The District may fill more than one position from this pool.

Posting Number: AA

Title:

Counselor (Full‑Time, Tenure‑Track) Madera Community College

Campus

Location:

Madera Community College

Start Date:

07/01/2026

At Madera Community 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.
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Madera Community 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 Madera Community College.

The ideal candidate will share Madera Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the 2024‑2025 academic year, we enrolled over 12,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 8% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% as Black/African American, 17% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. Madera Community 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 college dedicated to the students it serves.

Reporting to the Dean of Students, the Counselor will cover a full range of general counseling responsibilities, which include the following:

• Assist and collaborate in developing student support services with an emphasis on veterans’ needs and services to improve veterans’ access to college and their retention and completion rates.
• Provide specialized veterans counseling services complying with all required reporting and documentation.
• Provide comprehensive counseling services to students, including academic, career, personal and life transitions counseling on an appointment and walk‑in basis.
• Assist in the organization and implementation of matriculation activities, such as orientation, counseling and follow‑up services to students.
• Assist students with major selection, developing student education plans (SEPs), aligned with their educational goals and career pathways.
• Assist with the development and implementation of the Guided Pathways, the Student Equity Achievement (SEA) and other student success initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with instructional faculty, staff, and administrators in the development of student success initiatives and provision of counseling in support of guided pathways and other programs, including but not limited to first‑year experience programs.
• Assist, as needed, with articulation, student outreach, and recruitment activities.
• Provide assistance and referrals to on/off campus resources and student support services including Admissions & Records, EOPS, CalWORKs, Career/Transfer & Employment Center, DSP & SC, Financial Aid, Academic Success Centers,…