Academic Counselor

Location: Stone Ridge

Job Title:

Academic Counselor
- Trio

Bargaining Unit: OPAP

Grade: III

Salary:
Exempt

Final date to receive applications:
Open Until Filled

Priority Screening:
December 3, 2025

Position Overview:

Student Support Services is a federally funded TRIO program that assists first generation, low-income and disabled students to succeed in completing an associate's degree and transferring to a four-year college.

Reporting to the TRIO Director, the Academic Counselor provide personal, academic, transfer, and career counseling services with professionalism and knowledge of TRIO regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

* Serve as a key member of SUNY Ulster's Orientation and Registration teams.

* Provide comprehensive academic advising, academic counseling, and career and transfer planning services to students on a drop-in and appointment basis, as well as online, on the phone and at any SUNY Ulster campus site, as appropriate.

* Provide financial aid counseling, assist students with financial aid applications, guide students in maintaining financial aid eligibility, and help students with financial aid waiver appeals and securing other sources of college funding if financial aid eligibility is lost.

* Use assessment tools to help students identify their areas of strengths and weaknesses for retention purposes, and develop success plans with students that create strategies to guide them towards graduation and transfer to a four-year college.

* Utilize record keeping systems and maintain records for federal grant projects;

* Lead efforts to ensure timely and comprehensive response to Early Warnings and other notifications of issues impacting student success issued by faculty.

* Address the unique needs in educational planning of students with no identified education goal or course of study, students enrolled in basic skills courses as well as students who are either first generation, underrepresented, disabled, and/or non-traditional.

* Provide job search assistance including résumé, cover letter and interviewing support.

* Serve as Partner Advisor to a cohort caseload of seventy students; developing a deeper knowledge of career pathways in cohort specified; develop system for identifying and connecting with cohort students

* Act as consultant to faculty regarding student performance, retention and academic needs;

* Utilize record keeping systems and maintain records for federal grant projects;

* Serve as Partner Advisor to a cohort caseload of seventy students; developing a deeper knowledge of career pathways in cohort specified; develop system for identifying and connecting with cohort students.

* Participate in ongoing professional development in the fields of academic advisement and educational planning, higher education student success, and cultural competency; attend conferences and training sessions.

* Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree with at least three years of counseling experience and/or at least three years of experience working in a post-secondary environment.

And

* Commitment to community college goals and objectives of providing quality programs and services for culturally, socio-economically, ethnically, and academically diverse students and students with disabilities; personal qualities to work effectively and with sensitivity in a multicultural environment; awareness of and commitment to the needs of non-traditional and/or re-entry students with diverse abilities and interests.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Knowledge of New York public educational structure, particularly as it pertains to transfer. policies and practices, articulation agreements and requirements.

* Knowledge of financial aid regulations and processes.

* Knowledge of job market and career trends and requirements.

* Commitment and ability to work effectively and harmoniously with colleagues, individually and in teams.

* Demonstrated ability to use mature judgement, compassion, ethics, morals and character to inform decisions.

* Excellent interpersonal skills.

* Effective oral and written communication skills and some familiarity with Microsoft Office.

Salary:

An initial starting salary of $48,000 with an…