Career Services Counselor III Military & Veteran Center

Title: Career Services Counselor III Military & Veteran Services

Salary Range: 41,880.00

Contract Term Length: 12 Months

Standard Hours: 37.5

Work Location: On-Site

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

College: Elizabethtown Community & Technical College

Campus Location: Elizabethtown CTC

Department: Military & Veteran Services

Total Rewards

Elizabethtown Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary

Elizabethtown Community & Technical College is seeking a Career Services Counselor III to support the Military & Veteran/Service to Scholars Center (SSC) and provide excellent customer service for military-connected students and their families.

Job Duties:

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
• Planning and providing direct services and workshops to project participants to meet
educational advising, social, emotional, cultural, and career development needs.
• Conducts seminars on study skills development, career exploration, essential skills development, job search, and academic planning.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with pertinent stakeholders such as appropriate campus and
community leaders.
• Monitors academic skills records of participants and provide ongoing assessment of academic needs and goals.
Direct advisement services to participants on career planning, educational information, employment
information, financial aid and other areas consistent with the SSC project
• Facilitates presentations at open houses and other target area events.
• Conducts case management, inputs student data into the database, creates student files, regularly updates database and student files, assists in the preparation of reports, and consistently maintains accurate and updated contact logs with the veteran/military students.
• Maintains and protects the privacy of program participants and their files to ensure FERPA compliance with the College and the U.S. Department of Education.
• Attends in-house and external training workshops as possible.
• Assembles, collects, and reports data useful for project evaluation and assists the Project Coordinator in completing the Annual Performance Report.
• Demonstrated success in overcoming barriers similar to those of the target population.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Education/ Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (related field) and two years related experience, or equivalent (i.e. Master’s degree). 

Preferred Qualifications:

Successful candidates should demonstrate:
• Demonstrate familiarity with computer software, databases, purchasing, and budgets.
• Demonstrate success in overcoming barriers similar to those of the target population.

Open until filled; review begins on March 27, 2025

To apply please visit: https://careers.kctcs.edu/Elizabethtown

KCTCS/ECTC is an equal opportunity employer and education institution.

Additional Skills Requested:

Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.