Counselor, Early College Tenure-Track Fresno City College

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

Closing Date: 2/11/2026 at 11:55 PM

Campus

Location:

Fresno City College

Start Date: 12/23/2025

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.

• Provide the total range of community college counseling services, including career and educational planning, orientation, assessment interpretation, transfer, student outreach and personal counseling;
• Assist students in the development of a student education plans (SEP);
• Plan and conduct multi-media classroom presentations and large presentations;
• Implement retention strategies;
• Integrate technology into counseling functions;
• Work collaboratively with faculty members, counselors, staff, and administration;
• Assist in the building of collaborative relationships with college faculty and high schools;
• Provide information on the college and promoting academic pathways on behalf of the college;
• Plan, organize, and coordinate a variety of services, projects, and pathway maps for K-12 partner districts;
• Provide leadership in program plans directed towards college degrees earned and transfer-readiness;
• Maintain strong communication and procedural channels throughout the campus and K-12 partner districts congruent with the goals and objectives of the Early College Office;
• Provide counseling assistance and referrals for college resources and student support services including Admissions & Records, EOPS, CalWORKs, Career/Transfer & Employment Center, DSP&S, Financial Aid, Starfish-Early Alert, Academic Success Centers, STEM, TRiO, and off-campus community- based resources;
• Provide recommendation for early college courses, assist with the coordination and scheduling of courses along with related services in alignment with Dual Enrollment Agreements and in consultation with college faculty, deans, local high school administrators;
• Prepare and send communications to dual enrollment instructors and other stakeholders outlining dual enrollment procedures, calendar of dates and deadlines, and procedures for checking class rosters and for entering grades;
• Provide support for enrollment and onboarding activities for identified groups of students and communicate regularly with high schools, students, parents, counselors, and faculty for early college;
• Review local high school pathways to ensure alignment with Fresno City College's Guided Pathways;
• Work collaboratively with instructional faculty, staff and administrators in the development of student success initiatives, provision of counseling in support of guided pathways and other student support services that will ensure student access to college, retention and completion rates;
• Serve on and attending department, college, and district committees as needed;
• Participate in program review, student learning outcome development, and assessment to improve student learning;
• Work assignments and provide services in a variety of settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, online or off-campus as needed; and
• Other duties as…