Counselor - NextUp, EOPS Dream Categorically Funded Madera Community College

Counselor - Next Up, EOPS, & Dream (Full-Time, Categorically Funded) Madera Community College Please see Special Instructions for more details.

This is a full-time categorically funded position contingent upon funding. The District may fill more than one position from this pool.

Announcement Information

Posting Number AA

Title Counselor - Next Up, EOPS, & Dream (Full-Time, Categorically Funded) Madera Community College

Campus Location Madera Community College

Start Date 07/01/2026

At Madera Community College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An equity-minded individual is a person who:

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments; and
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Madera Community College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Madera Community College.

The ideal candidate will share Madera Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  academic year, we enrolled over 12,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 8% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% as Black/African American, 17% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. Madera Community College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

The successful candidate will join a college dedicated to the students it serves.

The Next Up Program purpose is to strengthen the capacity of Madera Community College to support the higher education success, health and well-being of current and former foster youth in the local service area. The goals of the Next Up Program is to encourage enrollment, retention, degree completion and transfer of current and former foster youth. The Counselor, Next Up will:

• Provide the total range of community college academic, transfer and career counseling to focus on current and former foster youth, including orientation and the development of student educational plans (SEP);
• Provide personal counseling to assist students in addressing a variety of personal challenges, including personal relationship issues and problems, development of interpersonal communication skills, psychological and/or behavioral difficulties, decision making skills, chemical dependency problems, gender/sexuality issues and concerns, health problems and concerns;
• Provide referrals to external community agencies for housing assistance, and health, mental health and/or professional counseling;
• Interpret English/math assessments;
• Administer and interpret behavioral skills assessments;
• Instruct counseling classes for college success, career planning, study skills and transfer preparation;
• Provide Independent Living instruction and facilitate small groups for students on topics of interest as appropriate;
• Provide special assistance for students who are on academic…