Job Summary

The Freshman Focus Team Career Counselor supports the career development needs of Cal Poly's first time first-year students through tailored career education programming, career counseling, outreach, and other relevant resources and services.

Department Summary

Career Services is a centralized career center supporting the career development needs of all Cal Poly students and the recruiting needs of employers who want to hire Cal Poly students and graduates. The department's mission is to empower Cal Poly students to achieve a lifetime of meaningful career success. The Career Services team strives to achieve this by enacting the department's core values of innovation; collaboration; personal and professional growth; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Key Qualifications

• Ability to advise students individually and in groups on routine matters.

• General knowledge of career or academic counseling and advising.

• Ability to successfully interact with a diverse student population and to assess student needs.

• Strong and inclusive communication skills, both oral and written. Ability to speak and present information to small and large groups of people. Able to revise written material used for promotions, presentations, workshops, and marketing.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with management, faculty, staff, students and student organizations. Able to work effectively in teams.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to set own priorities to coordinate multiple assignments with fluctuating and time-sensitive deadlines.

Education and Experience

Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university in one of the behavioral sciences, public or business administration or a job-related field. Two years of professional experience in one of the student services program areas or in a related field.

A master’s degree, by date of hire, in a job-related field may be substituted for one year of the professional experience.

Additional specialized experience during which the applicant has acquired and successfully applied the required knowledge and abilities may be substituted for the required education on a year for year basis.

Salary and Benefits

Anticipated Hiring Range: $58,092 - $63,441 per year

Classification Range: $55,320 - $78,672 Per Year

Cal Poly offers a best-in-class benefits program, including health, dental and vision insurance, retirement participation in the Public Employees' Retirement System, and educational benefits for eligible employees. See our benefits website for additional information. 

Cal Poly

Cal Poly is a nationally-ranked public university located in San Luis Obispo, California, and known for its Learn by Doing philosophy. Each year more than 20,000 top-tier students come to San Luis Obispo to put knowledge into action, taking their learning outside the classroom as they prepare for careers in engineering, agriculture, science, business, humanities and the built environment. Cal Poly’s hands-on philosophy, small class sizes and close student-faculty mentorships result in graduates ready from day one to impact their communities, California and the world. For more information, visit calpoly.edu.

Diversity Statement

At Cal Poly, we believe that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is fundamental to the success of our students, our employees and our community. Bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and value systems fosters the innovative and creative thinking that exemplifies Cal Poly's values of free inquiry, cultural and intellectual diversity, mutual respect, civic engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.

Cal Poly's commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment, hiring and retention. Cal Poly is an equal opportunity employer. 

Supplemental Information

Following a conditional offer of employment, a background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate may start work with Cal Poly. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may result in the withdrawal of the offer of employment. Current employees who are offered positions on campus will be required to undergo a background check for any position where a background check is required by law or that Cal Poly has designated as sensitive.

The person holding this position is considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment.

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo is not a sponsoring agency for staff positions (i.e. H-1B visas).

Positions are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days.