Educational Opportunity Program Counselor
About The Position
SUNY Sullivan is a community college in New York offering more than 40 degree programs, certificates, and micro-credentials. The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Counselor maintains counseling relationships with program students and provides support on academic, financial, career, and personal matters. The counselor advises and registers students, supports the EOP admissions and orientation processes, works with students in the pre-freshman summer program, conducts workshops, maintains office hours and activity records, and submits required reports to the EOP Director. The role also involves campus and community activities, committee participation, and meetings. Additional evening and weekend hours are required for special projects and events, and local travel is required; overnight travel may be required. This is a grant-funded role with a full starting salary range of $50,000 to $60,000.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in counseling, college student personnel, or a related field.
- One to two years of experience providing personal, academic, financial, or career counseling to students in a postsecondary setting.
- Demonstrated ability to work with students from historically disadvantaged and culturally diverse backgrounds.
- Valid New York State driver's license.
- General knowledge of methods used to keep financial accounts and records.
- Proficiency with current operating systems and Microsoft Office software, particularly Outlook/Google, Word, and Excel.
- Excellent interpersonal skills for working with diverse groups of people with varying backgrounds.
- Ability to communicate effectively with staff, faculty, administrators, students, athletes, and parents.
- Equivalent combinations of education and/or experience may be considered.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree.
- Knowledge of Jenzabar EX.
Responsibilities
- Provide individual and group counseling to EOP students on academic, financial, career, and personal matters.
- Provide academic coaching, study-skills support, and soft-skills development.
- Academically advise and register program students.
- Provide financial counseling and guide students in maintaining satisfactory academic progress.
- Provide career and transfer advisement.
- Participate in the EOP orientation program.
- Work with students and participate in the pre-freshman summer program.
- Offer office hours for program students.
- Develop and conduct workshops for program students.
- Maintain logs of daily counseling, advising, or coaching activities.
- Submit periodic or semester reports as required by the Director.
- Establish and maintain records on student performance.
- Monitor the filing of financial aid applications.
- Support the EOP admissions process.
- Participate in campus and community activities involving EOP students.
- Participate in campus-wide committees and attend meetings.
- Perform other duties consistent with the EOP Counselor position and duties assigned by the EOP Director.
