Career Counselor

General Summary:

Who We Are

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek.

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.
The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.

Who You Are

As the Career Counselor, you will advance student career education and development by delivering mission and values driven services that promote student success. The department’s overarching goal is to provide equitable career support that equips FRCC students with the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to explore, prepare for, and pursue meaningful career and transfer opportunities throughout their lives. In this position, you will support the Career Services department’s efforts to provide inclusive career education to a diverse student population through individualized and group appointments, group presentations, accessible resources, and collaborative partnerships. You will collaborate closely with Career Services colleagues and campus and community partners to expand access to career learning opportunities and contribute to general administrative and collegewide initiatives. 

This position is based out of the Boulder County Campus in Longmont, Colorado and requires a strong on-campus presence. The position will have the opportunity to work remotely occasionally and will occasionally need to travel to all three FRCC campuses.

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer

SALARY: $55,046 - $57,798 annually

BENEFITS: For information about benefits, please view APT & Faculty Benefits.

SELECTION PROCESS: Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of March 22, 2026. This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.

Primary Duties

• Provide inclusive, student-focused career advising through appointments, workshops, and classroom presentations, supporting career exploration, job search skills, and transfer planning.
• Create and maintain career education resources using assessments, labor-market insights, and career technology tools.
  
• Collaborate with campus partners, faculty, employers, and community organizations to design and deliver career-related programs and integrate career learning across the college.
• Support outreach efforts that increase student awareness and engagement with Career Services.
• Supervise and mentor student employees, offering meaningful work experiences that build core professional skills.
• Contribute to department operations by participating in meetings, events, and committees, and providing general administrative support.

Required Competencies

• Mission, Vision & Values: Embraces the mission, vision and values of the Career Services Department as well as of FRCC.  Understands the importance of the work that you do to support department and institutional goals. 
• Student Centeredness: Places serving our student body at the center of your work.  Adopts a philosophy that makes the ability to serve the student the cornerstone of the work that you do. Ready to work with students during designated work times. Takes responsibility for initiating conversations with students and following up on tasks. Performs daily work assignments with minimal supervision.
• Equity Mindedness: Learns to view department operations through an equity lens. Works with, supports, and advocates for individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Develops resources and support for students to ensure they have a sense of belonging. Be willing to call attention to processes that lead to inequity in serving students.  Understand the College's equity goals and how your role supports FRCC's ability to achieve those goals. 
• Cultural Self-Awareness: Willing to examine own beliefs and acknowledges own biases and how they have impacted or may impact the ability to serve students. Willing and excited to engage in lifelong learning regarding identity, implicit bias training, etc. 
• Leadership: Leads from position by not only closely examining responsibilities for the department, but by bringing forward ideas to your supervisor that college should consider to be more student centered. Takes initiative to engage and manage caseload using all available tools, prioritizes workload, ability to solve problems independently and as part of a team.
• Team Building: Participates in team-building exercises and strives to build positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues both within the department and in other departments within the college.
• Collaboration: Willingness to work with colleagues across departments to further student engagement.  
• Communication (written, verbal, interpersonal): Communicates well across all channels to welcome, inform, guide, and engage in helpful and productive dialogue. Communication is informed by curiosity and desire to reach a shared understanding. Provides timely and exceptional customer service to a diverse group of students and staff by phone, video, email and in person.
• Critical thinking: Confident in using professional judgement when dealing with complex student issues. Generates and implements new ideas and is solution oriented.
• Technology: Uses available technologies to proactively support students. Willing to learn and utilize technologies used at FRCC and within the Career Services Department.

Qualifications

Required Education/Training & Work Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
• At least two years of experience in a related field -counseling/advising or other student services fields working with students (orientation programs, multicultural affairs, academic advising, residence life). This can include part-time and student employment experiences.
• Commitment to diversity and ability to work with a diverse college community.

Preferred Education/Training & Work Experience:

• Ability to communicate effectively in Spanish  

Welcoming. Respectful. Inclusive. Together, we are FRCC.

For information on Front Range Community College’s Security, including Clery Act/Crime Statistics for the campuses and surrounding area, view FRCC’s Annual Security Report.

Please Note: In order to be considered for this position, you must submit a complete application on the Front Range Community College careers page. This position's application can be found at the following webpage: Career Counselor