Adjunct EOP&S​/CARE Counselor

Job Description

BASIC FUNCTION:

Under the direction and supervision of the EOPS-CARE Director/Dean of Student Services, or designee, the EOPS-CARE Counselor provides academic, career, personal, and crisis counseling; assesses placement tests; develops educational plans; guides students through basic skills, general education, and transfer coursework; implements an academic progress report and follow-up process; facilitates support for the EOPS-CARE students and collaborates with the implementation of the Student Success and Support Program from a categorical program perspective;

and, works closely and collaboratively with the EOPS-CARE Supervisor and staff.

Required Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

EOPS Counselors are those persons designated by the community college to serve as academic counselors in the EOPS program and must possess:

* Possess a master's degree in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, or career development,

* OR the equivalent AND have completed a minimum of nine (9) semester units of college course work predominantly relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantage OR have completed six (6) semester units or the equivalent of a college-level counseling practicum or counseling field-work courses in a community college EOP&S program, or in a program dealing predominantly with ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language social, or economic disadvantages AND have two (2) years of occupational experience in work relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages.