College Academic Counselor jobs in the United States

ACADEMIC COUNSELOR - MOUNTAINLAND TECHNICAL COLLEGE

We are committed to providing affordable career and technical education to help our students succeed, enhance their employability, and ultimately, make their dreams realities!

So how do we accomplish this? The answer is simple: the people we employ. Every member of Mountainland Technical College is valued and essential to providing our students with opportunities, support, and the resources needed to step into the workforce full swing. With increasing student enrollment, course offerings, and campus locations, our growing team works hard to create a positive, welcoming community inspiring learning, confidence, integrity, and inclusion.

ACADEMIC COUNSELOR

Location: 2301 W Ashton Boulevard, Lehi, UT 84043

Status: Full-Time / Exempt

Hours: Monday - Friday; 8:00am - 5:00pm; Will be required to work one evening per week.

Pay / Salary: $53,504

BENEFITS:

The workplace culture and opportunities here at MTECH are benefits in and of themselves, but here's what you can expect from MTECH's generous benefit package:

• 401k
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Paid holiday, personal, sick, and vacation time
• Tuition benefits: At Mountainland Technical College, we encourage educational development for our staff and faculty. That is why we offer MTECH tuition reimbursement to qualified personnel and their dependents / immediate family after three months of employment. We also offer partial tuition discounts for other accredited institutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities of the Academic Counselor include, but are not limited to:

• Providing short-term counseling to students, addressing academic, emotional, and social concerns and making appropriate referrals for long-term support and writing Student Success Plans with specific, measurable goals and providing personalized guidance and support.
• Mediating conflicts between students, students and teachers, and fostering constructive dialogue and promoting resolution. Providing prompt and effective support and intervention for students and faculty in crisis situations, which may occur outside of work hours.
• Conducting classroom lessons and programs focusing on suicide prevention, effective study skills, and other topics as assigned.
• Maintaining regular and accurate reports detailing services provided to students and maintaining student records to meet confidentiality requirements and accreditation standards.
• Serving as an advocate for students by providing them with relevant information, options, and consequences, ensuring their feedback, opinions, and concerns are heard.
• Counseling students and prospective students on enrollment, program requirements, career options, and personal concerns.
• Tracking student performance and attendance on a regular basis and counseling students who are below program standards. Ensuring compliance with policies and procedures for student dismissal, and coordinating with relevant parties to verify the official status and notification of the dismissal.
• Coordinating compliance with Section 504 regulation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Arranging appropriate services and accommodations for individual students based on documentation, and act as a liaison between ADA Coordinator, faculty, staff, facilities, admissions, administration, etc. as needed. Ensuring compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
• Skills in media and technology, including but not limited to office software platforms and student data systems as applied to records management, report preparation, and related projects.

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS

• Master's degree program in counseling, education, behavioral science, or another related field.
• Experience working with diverse populations.
• Experience in writing assessments, reports, and maintaining information in a database to monitor student progress.

We appreciate and support our current staff and are equally excited about our new hires. So if this sounds like the job for you, we would love to see your application!

MTECH maintains the right to conduct a criminal history background check; employment is contingent upon background check results.

NON-DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

Mountainland Technical College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies:

Lynn Adams
MOUNTAINLAND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
ladams@mtec.edu
(801) 753-4245

Inquiries may also be sent to: The Office for Civil Rights - Denver Office U.S. Department of Education in the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building located at 1244 Speer Boulevard, Suite 310, Denver, CO,80204-3582. They can be reached by phone: 303-844-5695 (TDD: 800-877-8339), by fax: 303-844-4303, or by email: OCR.Denver@ed.gov.