Academic EOPS Counselor

Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) announces an opportunity to work as a full-time, tenure-track Academic Counselor in LTCC’s Student Services Division. Counseling support services are critical in helping students achieve their personal, academic, and career goals.

Representative Duties:

• Provide comprehensive academic, career, transfer, personal, and retention-focused counseling services to students participating in Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS), Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education (CARE), CalWORKs, NextUp, and other special populations.
• Assist students in the development of educational plans, academic goal setting, transfer preparation, and navigation of college processes.
• Provide the required counseling, advising, and student contact services mandated by Title 5 regulations for EOPS participants.
• Plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate programs, services, workshops, orientations, interventions, and activities.
• Establish, cultivate, and maintain collaborative partnerships with college departments, community-based organizations, social service agencies, K-12 districts, and regional partners.
• Assist in the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of annual Program Plans, budgets, reports, and other required documentation.
• Monitor student eligibility, participation, and service requirements for categorical programs.
• Participate in full-time faculty responsibilities including faculty and departmental meetings, shared governance activities, departmental planning, community engagement, professional development, and committee assignments.
• Support students in navigating academic coursework, financial aid processes, transfer opportunities, and career pathways.
• Collaborate with counseling faculty, student services professionals, instructional faculty, and administrators to advance student success initiatives.
• Coordinate outreach, recruitment, orientation, recognition, and special events.
• Contribute to the development, management, and stewardship of departmental and categorical program budgets and resources.
• Consult and collaborate with faculty, staff, administrators, and external partners.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work or career development, OR the equivalent. AND EOPS counselors hired after October 24, 1987, shall have completed a minimum of nine semester units of college course work predominantly relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages OR six semester units or the equivalent of a college-level counseling practicum or counseling field-work courses in a community college EOPS program, or in a program dealing predominantly with ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages. AND two years of occupational experience in work relating to ethnic minorities or persons handicapped by language, social or economic disadvantages.