Counselor, Perkins - Business Education (One-Year, Full-Time Temporary) Fresno City College

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Posting Number AA Title Counselor, Perkins - Business Education (One-Year, Full-Time Temporary) Fresno City College Campus Location Fresno City College Start Date 09/09/2026 Essential Functions of Position

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.

An equity-minded individual is a person who:

* 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  academic year, we enrolled over 44,000 students in which 67% 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 proud Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS) and a Black-Serving Institution (BSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI), 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.

The full-time Perkins counselor for the Business Division will work with CTE programs in order to support outreach, recruitment, registration assistance, career counseling, and job preparation for students. This Perkins counselor will be responsible for:

* Coordinating and providing job/career fair support, campus tours, educational planning, and conference/workshop presentations to share with students and their family about CTE program options as well as specific courses, certificates, and degrees;

* Providing referrals and connections to Pathway Teams such as DSP&S, Outreach, General counselor(s), and Financial Aid representatives;

* Providing career exploration and career development activities through an organized, systematic framework designed to aid students, including in the middle grades, before enrolling and while participating in a career and technical education program, in making informed plans and decisions about future education and career opportunities and programs of study;

* Providing professional development for teachers, faculty, school leaders, administrators, specialized instructional support personnel, career guidance and academic counselors, or paraprofessionals;

* Providing within career and technical education the skills necessary to pursue careers in high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand industry sectors or occupations;

* Supporting integration of academic skills into career and technical education programs and programs of study to support:

* CTE participants at the secondary level in meeting challenging State academic standards adopted under section 1111(b)(1) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) by the State in which the eligible recipient is located; and

* CTE participants at the postsecondary level in achieving academic skills;

* Planning and carrying out elements that support the implementation of career and technical education programs and programs of study that result in increasing student achievement of the local levels of performance established under section 113;

* Developing sustainable relationships among education, business and industry, and other community stakeholders, including industry or sector partnerships in the local area, where applicable, that are designed to facilitate the process of continuously updating and aligning programs of study with skills that are in demand in the State, regional, or local…