College Advisor - Educational Talent Search (4535U), Center for Educational Partnerships - #89178

University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

University of California, Berkeley's Center for Educational Partnerships is seeking a College Advisor to guide high school students toward college success. The role focuses on recruitment, advising, and program delivery to expand access for low-income and first-generation students.

You will develop educational plans, coordinate events and field trips, and document student progress while collaborating with schools, families, and community partners to strengthen college-going culture.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, recruits, and selects high school participants through referrals, class presentations, summer activities, school media, and correspondence.
• Delivers in-person and virtual individual and group advising services along with maintaining relationships with middle school and high school participants.
• Develops comprehensive education plan for each participant in advisors caseload with regards to their academic path from middle school to high school and subsequent enrollment in post-secondary education.
• Reviews and analyzes all cohort participant transcripts every semester to ensure student progress and success.
• Develop digital marketing and branding material for recruitment, programming, workshops, and activities.
• Co-ordinates participant attendance of other university-sponsored programs.

Job description

Job ID: 89178

Location: Main Campus-Berkeley

Contract Type: Full Time

About Berkeley

At the University of California, Berkeley, we are dedicated to fostering a community where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. Our culture of openness, freedom, and belonging makes it a special place for students, faculty, and staff, who are among the most talented and accomplished anywhere, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, and MacArthur Fellows. Since our founding in 1868, we have been an engine for innovation - driving intellectual, economic, and social progress that benefits California, the U.S., and beyond. Together, we change the world.

At Berkeley, the best careers are built on a foundation of continuous learning and growth. We actively support professional development by providing all full-time staff employees with at least 80 hours of paid time per year and provide space for supportive colleague communities via numerous employee resource groups.

We invite applicants who are inspired by our Principles of Community and who are eager to be part of our exciting Strategic Plan, which charts Berkeley's next era of excellence.

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Departmental Overview

The Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) is the primary department on the UC Berkeley campus charged with developing and implementing programs and strategies to improve academic preparation, expand educational opportunities, and ensure access to higher education for low-income, first generation, and underrepresented students.

Working in partnership with local schools and communities, CEP improves academic achievement and expands post-secondary educational opportunities for students who face significant barriers to college.

Position Summary

The College Advisor plans, develops, implements, and evaluates programs, activities, counseling, tutoring, and advising focused on students' successful graduation from high school and college, and career readiness. This position works with students, program alumni, teachers, counselors, school districts, community stakeholders, and parents.

Application Review Date

First Review Date: October 14, 2026

Responsibilities

Recruitment, Advising, and Retention - 35%

• Identifies, recruits, and selects high school participants through school staff referrals, class presentations, summer activities, school media, and correspondence.
• Introduces the concept of higher education to middle school and/or high school participants and their parents.
• Interprets and demystifies complex and ever-evolving college admission requirements, test preparation, and financial aid application for cohort participants and their families.
• Provides cohort participants with current and concise information on colleges that include community colleges, vocational/technical schools, private colleges, California universities, and out-of-state universities.
• Delivers in-person and virtual individual and group advising services along with maintaining relationships with middle school and high school participants.
• Develops comprehensive education plan for each participant in advisors caseload with regards to their academic path from middle school to high school and subsequent enrollment in post-secondary education.
• Reviews and analyzes all cohort participant transcripts every semester to ensure student progress and success.
• Provides related career exposure, advisement, and personal self-improvement activities to help cohort participants establish attainable academic and career life goals.
• Facilitates the educational advancement of cohort participants enrolled in the program from middle school to high school or high school to college.
• Develop digital marketing and branding material for recruitment, programming, workshops, and activities.
• Performs follow-up advisement with matriculating 8th-grade participants to high school.

Program Development, Management, and Implementation - 30%

• Conducts all aspects of ETS program activities and objectives in compliance with the U.S. Department of Education regulations pertaining to federally funded TRIO programs specifically Educational Talent Search.
• Designs, implements, and delivers appropriate 9th-12th grade level workshops, curricula materials, and activities to enhance the college-going rates at each assigned school site for ETS participants.
• In collaboration with school site personnel, other student service programs, and parents to establish and foster a college-going culture among the staff and participants at each assigned school site.
• Delivers in-person and virtual college-going, career, socioemotional workshops to ETS participants and families at program, community, and school-sponsored events.
• Establishes positive working relationships with assigned school site personnel; designs and implements a strategic plan of operation detailed to meet the needs of each assigned school site based on the cohort.
• Develops and maintains relationships with parents/families to support cohort academic success and access to higher education.
• Acts as an advocate for participants and parents/families base on the cohort.
• Develops collaborative relationships with other college-going programs and K-12 and higher education personnel.
• Establishes and maintains comprehensive collaborative partnerships with other school sites, community-based programs, and school districts to maximize referral and services to enrolled participants.
• Participates in strategic and program planning to meet the diverse socioemotional and educational needs of the student populations as assigned school or community sites.
• Plans and implements program-sponsored college-going field trips, socioemotional and cultural enrichment activities appropriate for cohort participants.
• Organizes and/or participates in meetings and activities with school site personnel, school districts, and/or service providers as appropriate.
• Serves as a presenter at K-14 and community events.
• Coordinates participant attendance of other university-sponsored programs.

Documentation, Official Communication, and Reporting - 25%

• Collects, analyzes, evaluates cohort participant data; documents participant contacts and progress; and tracks the academic progress of all cohort participants.
• Secures appropriate student/parent documentation to verify participants income eligibility, parental educational attainment, and need to program services.
• Obtains and maintains confidential school site records of participant program eligibility, academic promise, and progress throughout the participant enrollment in the program.
• Participates in strategic and program planning for all cohort participants.
• Produces program reports, proposals, budgets, and evaluations that include: Activity proposals and budgets for program-sponsored activities that include student field trips, cultural activities, college visitations, academic and test preparation classes, parent/student orientations, socioemotional and career awareness exploration activities; Post-activity evaluations and reports for program-sponsored activities detailing the activity, expenses, and outcomes of the activity; Ad hoc reports as requested.
• Assists with the research, development, and submissions of project reports and proposals required by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Establishes and maintains accurate and complete cohort participant files and database produces written documentation regarding all contacts with participants and detailing all services provided.

Other - 10%

• Serves and represents ETS on department, campus, and external committees,