Personal Financial Counselor - Fort Riley, KS
About The Position
Provides personal financial services at assigned military installations, delivering the full breadth of personal financial counseling to service members and their families. Services may include one-on-one counseling, consultations with commanders or other providers and staff, briefings and presentations, and referrals to resources outside counseling sessions. The counselor works with installation and military-branch Points of Contact to ensure the program stays within scope and meets installation needs. The role also includes financial education, spending-plan assistance for service members facing extended absences, developing informational materials, and coordinating and delivering classes and workshops on topics across the military lifecycle. The counselor may respond to requests for age-appropriate classes and use authorized virtual counseling and electronic communication methods. Additional duties include handling duty-to-warn situations according to DoD protocol, communicating with leadership, participating in individual and group supervision, sharing installation trends and issues, and taking part in training, quality-improvement committees, and other contract activities as assigned. Duties listed are representative and not all-inclusive; additional duties aligned with the role may be assigned.
Requirements
- Ability to provide personal financial counseling and management services to service members and their families.
- Skills to effectively use virtual counseling and electronic communication methods, such as web-based services, secure online chat, video-based communications, and secure video teleconference, when authorized.
Responsibilities
- Provide personal financial counseling and management services to service members and their families.
- Offer one-on-one counseling, consultations with commanders or other providers and staff, briefings, presentations, and referrals to outside resources.
- Work with installation and military-branch Points of Contact to ensure the program operates within scope and meets installation needs.
- Assist service members in establishing spending plans for extended absences.
- Develop and make informational financial materials available to service members and families.
- Coordinate, publicize, and deliver Personal Financial Management classes and workshops on topics across the military lifecycle.
- Respond to requests for age-appropriate classes or seminars.
- Use virtual counseling and electronic communication methods when authorized by the OSD FINRED Program office.
- Manage duty-to-warn situations according to Department of Defense protocol.
- Communicate with leadership and participate in individual and group supervision, sharing information about installation trends and issues.
- Participate in in-service training, quality-improvement committees, and other assigned or appropriate contract activities.
- Perform additional duties aligned with the intent of the job as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
