Description
Job Posting Details
Payroll Title: Academic Achievement Counselor 4
Job Code: 4502
Job Open Date: 1/22/2024
Application Review Begins: 2/7/2024
Department Code (Name): Educational Opportunity Program (EOPO)
Percentage of Time: 100%
Union Code (Name): 99 - Non-Represented (PPSM)
Employee Class (Appointment Type): Career
FLSA Status: Exempt
Classified Indicator Description (Personnel Program): PSS
Salary Grade: 22
Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $80,320 - $89,350/yr.
Full Salary Range: The full salary range for this position is $74,300 - $134,500/yr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University.
Work Location: Student Resource Building - 2210
Working Days and Hours: Monday-Friday 8-5pm
Benefits Eligibility: Full Benefits
Type of Remote or Hybrid Work Arrangement if applicable: Hybrid
Special Instructions
For full consideration, please include a resume and a cover letter as part of your application.
Department Marketing Statement
The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) is committed to providing a support and information base that validates each student's experience and nurtures a sense of participation, belonging and empowerment. Through mentorship, academic programs, one-to-one counseling/advising, campus student support service referrals and social/cultural programming, we strive to maximize a student's involvement and success in the campus academic community. In addition to assisting students through to graduation, EOP helps motivate and inform students to utilize services to enhance their preparation for the job market and/or graduate/professional school admission. EOP focuses on serving those who are income eligible and first-generation undergraduates.
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Brief Summary of Job Duties
The Director of Gaucho Underground Scholars (GUS) Program provides strategic leadership on a variety of projects, specialized programs, and issues in support of currently and formerly incarcerated students and other carceral system-impacted students and their families navigating their way to and through UC Santa Barbara. The Director leads the unit in recruitment, retention, advocacy, program planning, development, mission continuity, assessment, evaluation and administration. Works to support the state-wide Underground Scholars Initiative, which is student run and student initiated.
The Director leads their team to support Scholars through the student life cycle. Educates and trains faculty, TAs, and advisors across campus on the issues and exposes them to the student perspective in an ongoing and active effort to create understanding, inclusion and provide a safety network across campus. Establishes and maintains internal and external partnerships necessary to support the Scholars. Works with campus central development and meets with donors one-on-one to raise funding for the student programs.
Maintains a high degree of knowledge as an expert in the specified student population. Creates models to provide holistic support to students. Program elements include analyzing and assessing student needs for referral to appropriate campus resource and partnership efforts and agreements to support students' academic, personal, career, mentoring, transition, community building, and resource needs. Works with campus partners to address academic and non-academic barriers to academic success, and other aspects that may affect student retention and academic success.
Uses advanced student services concepts, provides the most complex student service expertise to the campus's management, faculty and students. Utilizes an in-depth knowledge of the field and advises department / school / college about outreach strategies, and helps identify equity gaps and create service models. Regularly works on issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Exercises judgment in selecting priorities, methods, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Supervises, recruits, trains and evaluates full-time staff and student interns. Works with the team to develop programs and workshops to meet specific needs of the Scholars. Participates in professional student services committees (Underground Scholars system-wide workgroup, etc) that develop policies and procedures with nationwide impact.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years Higher Education Work
- Supervision experience
- Demonstrated experience working with formerly incarcerated students
Special Conditions of Employment
- Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse
- Satisfactory conviction history background check
- Limited vacation available after 6 month probationary period has been met.
- UCSB is a Tobacco-Free environment
Job Functions and Percentages of Time:
20% Leadership - Strategic Planning
Responsible for Gaucho Underground Scholars (GUS) including leadership for the overall mission, strategic plans, management, mission continuity, assessment, and evaluation. Sets GUS's leadership, vision, priorities, policy development, and goals including short and long-range strategic goals. Conducts assessment and evaluation of student and campus education needs, and program efficacy. Manages day to day operations. Responsible for developing annual reports, budget reports and program evaluations for UC Office of the President, Student Affairs, and GUS's partners.
Recruitment: Leads statewide recruitment strategies in jails, prisons, and community colleges that result in the enrollment of formerly incarcerated and system impacted students to UC Santa Barbara. Lead the Underground Scholars Ambassador Program - hires & provides training and leadership development to community college students to recruit for Underground Scholars at their community colleges.
Retention: Provides retention support to formerly incarcerated and carceral-system-impacted UC Santa Barbara students: Collaborates with the GUS team to develop programs, classes, curriculum, and events that meet the needs of formerly incarcerated and carceral-system-impacted students on campus including orientation, graduation, political education, professional development, and wellness programming.
Advocacy: Collaborates with campus stakeholders on advocacy work. Provides individual advocacy for students facing barriers on and off campus. Responsible for program management of Underground Scholars Program. Hires, trains, and supervises full-time staff and student interns. Develops annual priorities and timelines for recruitment and advocacy. Tracks and evaluates program effectiveness and student outcomes through online surveys and by monitoring academic performance. Develops strategies to improve outcomes and meet changing service and business needs with efficiency.
20% Leadership - Partnerships and Capacity Building
Responsible for developing and maintaining strategic partnerships on and off campus to create and implement programs and services, address policy changes and support formerly incarcerated students and other carceral system-impacted students and their families, including in the areas of persistence, retention, and success. Participates in professional student services committees (Underground Scholars system-wide workgroup, etc) that develop policies and procedures with nationwide impact. Works to support the state-wide Underground Scholars Initiative, which is student run and student initiated.
Leads a wide variety of projects on campus and follows through with all levels of staff and individuals inside the unit. Makes high level contacts of a sensitive nature, internally and externally requiring discretion and diplomacy in order to negotiate with or persuade officials to adopt the proposed solution. Includes collaboration with other equity programs, collaboration with other campus departments, including admissions, financial aid, housing, GUS Advisory Board, Academic Senate and others.
Provides specialized advising and coaching to students holding staff and leadership positions. Advises student leaders on complex and sensitive issues. Brings extensive knowledge to support, guide, and mentor students leading projects and programs serving formerly incarcerated and system impacted students. Guides students in interaction with external partners and represents students on these issues when appropriate.
Create and maintain long term programming to assist in retention/time to degree effort; Implement and maintain networks among faculty, TA's, advisors, and other offices on campus to strengthen student success rates. Work closely with the College of Letters and Science, the College of Creative Studies, and the College of Engineering to promote open communication regarding student needs. Promote and network retention efforts on and off campus.
In conjunction with various student affairs and academic departments on campus, develop, organize, and execute the continuous, long term education of TA's, Faculty, and Advisors on the ever changing demographics of the UCSB campus and the students' experience. Develops and maintains relationships with internal and external organization stakeholders critical to program success, retention and recruitment. Works with academic departments, faculty, and department management to help resolve specific student academic issues.
20% Management
Financial Management - Establishes and manages the GUS Program budget in accordance with campus, UC, state and federal policies. Develops budgetary priorities and identifies future resource needs. Works with Development, Assistant Vice Chancellor, and Division of Student Affairs, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and UCOP to identify funding opportunities and priorities. Prepares funding proposal and budget reports required by the Office of the President. Works closely with central development and Student Affairs Grants & Development and meets with donors one-on-one to raise funding for both student support programs. Advises campus management about available funds for entering students based upon special funding from all sources.
Operations Management -Responsible for day-to-day operations of GUS and the management of any future designated spaces for GUS. Develops annual report on the achievements of GUS. Shares report with partners in the Division of Student Affairs, on campus and throughout the statewide community. Interfaces with OFAS, Registrar and division data systems to compile and analyze data for outreach, assessment and reporting purposes. Works with the Business Officer to process materials requests for USS daily operations, budgets, scholarships, etc. -Represents GUS on campus and throughout the community. Participates as a member of the EOP Team and assists the EOP Director and Assistant Vice Chancellor with other duties where needed.
Informational Technology Management-Responsible for identifying informational technology tools and needs, and working with IT colleagues to integrate their use for department assessment and data management.
20% Student Service Model & Counseling & Crisis Management
Counseling - Works regularly with campus administration, counseling services, social workers and student academic support services (e.g. CLAS, DSP, EOP, OBSD) as needed, to support the unique needs of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students and create service models and partnership efforts to reduce the stress and anxiety that is associated with their matriculation through the University.
Responsible for creating support services to include holistic counseling, advising, career development, wellness, mentorship, academic needs assessment, crisis intervention and retention as key areas of the service model. Utilizes professional or academically obtained counseling skills to advise students on academic, personal and financial matters. Assesses distressed students, identifies risk and refers students to appropriate campus, UC or community agency. Adapts and applies crosscultural/intersectional models to address the various needs of a diverse student population, which may consist of differences in race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, disability, age, medical condition, ancestry, marital status, citizenship, sexual orientation, or uniformed services.
Counsel, mentor, and advise entering and continuing scholars and help them navigate the university by all means necessary to ensure their retention through to graduation; Maintain records, promotional materials, the library, social and website media, contracts, and tracking; Enforce contractual agreements; Organize events, orientation/contract signing, workshops, and all other programming; Oversee the GUS advisory board; Present and network the programs to both internal and external entities and offices; Conduct advisory board meetings; Collaborate closely with academic advisors, student conduct, student behavioral intervention team, community police, housing, CADA, and other internal and external offices to elevate campus-wide and community support program.
Advise, assist, and support students in crisis on a continuous and regular basis until the crisis is over; coach time management and provide support to disqualified GUS scholars; collaborate and coordinate with partners to assist students in crisis, which include: Financial Aid Crisis/Medical Emergency Relief, Enrollment Services, BARC, financial aid, mental health coordination services, Social Workers in Student Health, CAPS, Community police and drug counselors, counselors in the housing office, housing, student conduct, CARE, academic advisors in every college, faculty, TA's, and all other individuals/entities needed in order to move students out of a state of crisis.
20% Supervision & Human Resources
Directly supervises 1-2 FTE's. Oversee their individual recruitment, selection, hiring, training and evaluation. Develops, manages and implements an undergraduate student intern program. Recruits and trains interns. Supervise and evaluate designated interns. Develops, manages, implements, and evaluates USS volunteer program. Recruits, supervises, trains, and evaluates volunteers. Sets work priorities and program goals.
UC Vaccination Programs Policy – With Interim Revisions
As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California Policy on Vaccination Programs – With Interim Revisions.*
As a condition of Physical Presence at a Location or in a University Program, all Covered Individuals** must participate in any applicable Vaccination Program by providing proof that they are Up-to-Date with any required Vaccines or submitting a request for Exception in a Mandate Program or properly declining vaccination in an Opt-Out Program no later than the Compliance Date (Capitalized terms in this paragraph are defined in the policy.). Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.
For more information, please visit:
· UC Santa Barbara COVID-19 Information https://www.ucsb.edu/COVID-19-information
· University of California Policy on Vaccinations – With Interim Amendments https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/VaccinationProgramsPolicy
*Note: The Policy on Vaccination Programs – With Interim Revisions was updated effective August 16, 2023. A systemwide review of this policy will take place in Fall 2023 with an expected issuance/effective date in early 2024.
** Covered Individuals: A Covered Individual includes anyone designated as Personnel or Students under this Policy who physically access a University Facility or Program in connection with their employment, appointment, or education/training. A person accessing a Healthcare Location as a patient, or an art, athletics, entertainment, or other publicly accessible venue at a Location as a member of the public, is not a Covered Individual.
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