Coahoma Community College Hiring for Career and Technical Counselor at Clarksdale, MS Full Time

Minimum Requirements:
A master’s degree which includes twenty-four (24) semester hours of graduate guidance courses; and a minimum of two (2) years of teaching and/or related work experience in areas such as employment counseling, academic counseling, or human relations; five years or more experience is preferred.

Position Description: (primary functions)

Disseminates occupational information to students

Selects, administers, and interprets test instruments used in assisting students in making career choices

Coordinates orientation, testing maintaining files, and placement with Special Populations personnel

Provides academic advisement and assists students in educational planning

Provides personal counseling (apply the accepted methods of counseling/psychotherapy within the content of the helper-helpee relationship)

Uses interest, ability, personality, and intelligence tests within the parameters of professional and ethical guidelines to assist in the counseling process

Provides advisement and/or counseling to students who are on probation or who are identified as potential probationary students

Provides accurate information and assists students in planning over the telephone when necessary

Works with students to select appropriate courses and assists in scheduling at late registration and schedule change

Assists students in the evaluation of transcripts for planning purposes

Performs other duties as assigned by the Executive Director for Workforce Education

About Coahoma Community College:
Coahoma Community College is an accredited public comprehensive institution of higher learning committed to providing accessible, affordable, diverse, and quality educational programs and services. The ninety-nine acre campus lies in an agrarian setting along Clarksdale-Friars Point Road near the Mississippi River, which forms the western boundary of Coahoma County. Bordered on the east by a quiet and picturesque lake, the school site is conducive to wholesome recreation as well as to serious study.