Counselor, UC Transfer; One-, Temporary) Fresno City College

Counselor, UC Transfer (One-Year, Full-Time Temporary) Fresno City College

State Center Community College District

Closing Date: 08/27/2026 at 11:59 PM

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date: 09/09/2026

Essential Functions: 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.

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.

Reporting to the Dean of Student Services, Counseling at Fresno City College; it will cover a full range of academic, personal, and career counseling as it relates to transfer services. Maintaining close working relationships with the dean, program director(s) and instructional faculty, 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;
• Serving as the liaison to the Counseling Department on transfer services and activities;
• Developing and maintaining student educational plans, student contacts, interpret external transcripts;
• Providing individual and group counseling related to the transfer function including: assisting students with college admission requirements for CSU, UC, and independent colleges, reviewing Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG), evaluating transcripts, and obtaining information on financial aid and housing;
• Developing transfer workshops, participating in retention and outreach efforts to prepare…