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Posted: March 9, 2026 (4 days ago)

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Career Counselor

State of Colorado

Front Range Community College

Fresh

Location

Salary

$55,046 - $57,798

per year

Closes

Open until filled

Job Description

Summary

This job is for a career counselor at a community college in Colorado, where you'll help students explore career paths, build skills, and prepare for jobs or transfers to other schools through one-on-one sessions, group talks, and partnerships.

It's ideal for someone passionate about supporting diverse students, especially from underrepresented groups, in an inclusive environment.

You'll need to be comfortable working mostly on campus with some travel and remote options.

Key Requirements

  • Master's degree in counseling, education, or a related field (preferred or required based on typical roles)
  • Experience in career counseling, advising, or student services in an educational setting
  • Strong commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and supporting underrepresented students
  • Ability to deliver individualized and group career education sessions and presentations
  • Skills in collaborating with campus departments, community partners, and colleagues
  • Residency in Colorado by the first day of employment
  • Availability for on-campus presence at Boulder County Campus with occasional travel to other sites

Full Job Description

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.

Requirements

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.
The selection process for the Career Counselor will be conducted through a competitive, merit-based evaluation of all qualified applicants. Preliminary screening will be based on the completed application package submitted by the candidate. In your application, please include a resume and cover letter that specifically address how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.

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.

Qualifications

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(Download PDF reader).


Additional Information

Benefit-Eligible EmployeesGroup Health BenefitsIf you are an APT, staff, or faculty and are scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, you are eligible for benefits on the first day you officially begin active employment.

FRCC offers a variety of family-friendly benefits designed to support your physical, emotional and financial health, including:

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and Dependent Care
  • Life, AD&D and Disability Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Community or School Volunteer Leave
  • Leave of Absence Options
  • College Invest 529
Retirement
FRCC employees contribute to Colorado PERA, which provides retirement and other benefits to employees of more than 500 government agencies and public entities in the state of Colorado. PERA is the 21st largest public pension plan in the United States and is a substitute for Social Security; FRCC employees do not contribute to Social Security. PERA eligible employees are required to contribute a fixed percentage of their salary to the pension. Student employees are not eligible to participate in PERA.

FRCC and the State of Colorado also offer three tax-deferred supplemental investment plans, including 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans.

Tuition Reimbursement
Education and the success of you and your dependents is a priority at Front Range Community College. We encourage you to develop job skills and abilities which will benefit you as well as our College. Eligible employees, their eligible dependents, and domestic partners may enroll in credit courses at any of the 13 system community colleges.

Professional Development Opportunities
FRCC offers a variety of professional development opportunities to create possibilities for your career and life. We are building a learning community where you can work with diverse individuals, explore new ways of thinking and expand your capabilities.

Flexible Work Arrangements
Front Range offers a variety of flexible work arrangements based on departments and positions. Please ask if this is an opportunity for this role.

Employee Assistance Program
Our employee assistance program (EAP) services are available to you and your household members at no cost through the Colorado State Employee Assistance Program (C-SEAP). These confidential services offered to support the wellbeing of both you and your family members include counseling, professional coaching, webinars, mediation, financial assistance, and more. For more information, please visit the CSEAP website.

BenefitHub
As a State of Colorado employee, you will have access to the BenefitHub website where you will find a variety of local and national discounts.


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Posted on NEOGOV: 3/9/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/11/2026

Source: NEOGOV | ID: neogov-colorado-5264121