St. Petersburg College

POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: Counselor

DEPARTMENT: Various SITE: Various

SALARY SCHEDULE: Instructional GRADE: N/A

BASIC FUNCTION:

Provides leadership and assistance designed to support students achieve academic, career, and life goals. Counselors work collaboratively with campus administrators, faculty and academic chairs, and student affairs leaders in the delivery of student programs and reviews.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates leadership in serving as a student development specialist, student advocate, and consultant to faculty and staff.
• Conducts accurate academic advising sessions. Helps students think critically in resolving conflicts, solving problems, and making decisions.
• Assists students with personal issues hindering academic success.
• Facilitates students’ career planning and decision making. Administers and interprets career assessment instruments such as the Personal Empowerment by Type (PET), Myers-Briggs, etc.
• Develops, coordinates, and implements retention programs to assist students who are below academic standards, including but not limited to, students enrolled in two or more preparatory courses, on probation, suspension, dismissal, etc.
• Serves as liaison with academic departments, attends college-wide articulation meetings, and serves on college-wide committees.
• Assists with college “critical response” situations, and referral to community resources.
• Provides assistance with college-wide and special community outreach activities.
• In cooperation with Enrollment Management, participates in community and state recruitment activities and coordinates high school visits in the respective campus service area to conduct group information sessions including the available resources at SPC.
• Collaborates with the Career Development Specialist to develop presentations on employment-related topics.
• Conducts Student Employee Orientation training for student workers and annually review and recommend revisions to the College’s online and face to face orientations for new students.
• Organizes and facilitates special projects such as “You’re Closer Than You Think” that focus on students who completed 45+ credits but have not completed a degree.
• Coordinates and facilitates information forums for targeted populations.
• Attends college-wide and professional growth training opportunities.
• Performs related duties as required.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Master’s degree in Counseling or a Master’s degree including 18 graduate hours in Counseling.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Experience in university/college counseling and experience in consultation.  Experience in college admissions or high school college counseling, teaching experience are plusses.

KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES/SKILL REQUIREMENTS

Necessary skills include excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational ability, computer skills and the ability to meet deadlines. 

The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills; familiarity with the goals, objectives, and mission of an independent college preparatory school; the ability to respond effectively to the needs of a diverse and demanding student and parent population; knowledge of colleges, their academic programs, admission policies, and financial policies and procedures.