Job Summary:

The RSP Advisor supports Renaissance Scholars by providing direct academic support and interventions, skill building training, fostering support networks, and providing access to mental health services. Address basic needs, such as year - round housing and food security, along with providing a safe environment of ongoing learning. The role focuses enhancing students’ skillsets, promoting ongoing development, and advancing their post-secondary educational success. The RSP Advisor will provide assistance with addressing multifaceted concerns and complex day-to-day support to the Renaissance Scholars Program participants, including both current and former foster youth at CSUSB. Responsibilities include counseling, academic advising, general information regarding policies/procedures, grading system, course descriptions, etc. as mandated by 1996 Assembly Bill (AB 2463) and California Education Code 89340-89347.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists with EOP and Renaissance Scholars admissions, including reviewing applicant files and making admissions recommendations using a high degree of judgment. Guide RSP applicants through the admissions process. Collect, review, interpret and maintain documentation that establishes students’ foster youth status.
• Assist in the collection, organization and reporting of Renaissance Scholars Program data along with any ad hoc reports requested by RSP Coordinator, EOP Director, or EOP Assistant Director.
• Collect and track data required to meet grant proposal objectives. 
• Aids in the development, coordination, and marketing of the Renaissance Scholars Program seminars, workshops, events, and cultural enrichment activities/field trips.
• Assists in coordinating Summer Bridge efforts for Renaissance Scholars. Provide RSP specific summer co-curricular experiences.
• Develops co-curricular activities and programming for foster youth students that focuses on topics specifically related to the foster youth population, including but not limited to, dealing with transitions, fostering supportive connections, understanding financial aid, etc.
• Assesses students for basic needs during academic year and breaks (i.e. winter, spring, and summer breaks) where gaps in services may occur including limited access to campus dining services, risk of housing insecurity etc. and assesses students for assistance needed. Also assist in assessing academic needs including textbooks, graduate school application fees, etc. and coordinates requests via RSP Coordinator depending on availability of funding.
• Directs students to fully utilize off-campus resources, such as resources available by the students’ county of dependency, housing resources (i.e. THP+) and other resources available to current and former foster youth.
• Collaborates with donors and community partners in the promotion of scholarships or in-kind offered to foster youth students.
• Collaborates with campus partners including the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships, Admissions, Outreach & Recruitment.
• Recruits current and former foster youth students to assist in increasing the number of foster youth students enrolled in the EOP Renaissance Scholars Program.
• Reach out to foster youth students on campus and inform them about the resources and services available to them as a foster youth student.
• Able to travel and represent CSU San Bernardino EOP Department in local off campus events.
• Other classification related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: Required Education and Experience

• Education: Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college or university in a related field, including or supplemented by upper division or graduate course work in counseling techniques, interviewing, and conflict resolution where such are job-related.
• Experience: Possession of these knowledge and abilities is typically demonstrated through the equivalent of three years of progressively responsible professional student services work experience.
  • One year in the program area to which assigned may be preferred but is not required. A master’s degree in Counseling, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, or a directly related field may be substituted for one year of experience.
  • A doctorate degree and the appropriate internship or clinical training in counseling or guidance may be substituted for the three years of experience for positions with a major responsibility for professional career or personal counseling.

Required Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of the principles of individual and group behavior.
• General knowledge of the principles, practices and trends of the Student Services field as well as general knowledge of the policies, procedures and practices of the program area to which assigned.
• General knowledge of individual counseling techniques.
• General knowledge, or the ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge, of the organizational procedures and activities of the specific campus to which the position is assigned.
• Working knowledge of student services programs outside the program to which immediately assigned.
• Ability to analyze complex situations accurately and adopt effective courses of action; advise students individually and in groups on complex student related matters.
• Determine appropriate courses of action and proper techniques to utilize while engaged with individuals in personal interactions of an argumentative or sensitive nature.
• Interpret and evaluate descriptions and explanations of problems brought forward by individuals or student organizations, analyze and define the problem, draw valid conclusions and project consequences of various alternative courses of action.
• Carry out a variety of professionally complex assignments without detailed instructions; and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with a variety of individuals.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master’s degree Counseling, Clinical Counseling or Educational Psychology or a directly related field is preferred.
• Other skills include excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills. Knowledge of professional counseling theories and techniques is preferred.
• Experience in collecting, analyzing and evaluating data, as well as making verbal and written presentations regarding their assessment of the data collected.
• Experience with EOP, TRIO, working with organizations that support foster and unhoused youth or coordinating summer student programs is preferred.
• Experience with higher education academic policies and procedures.  Upper division or graduate course work in individual and group counseling, career counseling and conflict resolution is preferred.
• Knowledge in how to operate standard office equipment and software including PeopleSoft, Microsoft Office (Access, PowerPoint, Excel and Word) and database management.
• Experience in fundraising, event planning, training is preferred as these are considered specialized skills.
• Working knowledge or experience in relaying university degree requirements including major and general education coursework and developing educational plans.
• Knowledge of and strict adherence to one of the nationally recognized counselor code of ethics/ethical standards, such as the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), American Counseling Association (ACA), or the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Core Values of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA).
• Adaptability and aptitude for solution-oriented problem solving that promotes student success.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with diverse constituencies including administrators, faculty, parents, staff, students and community members; and the ability to motivate students in a diverse multicultural setting.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with diplomacy and discretion.

Compensation and Benefits:

Anticipated Hiring Range: $5,540 per month

Classification Salary Range: $5,540 - $7,893 per month

The salary offered will take into account internal equity and experience among other factors.

The CSU system provides a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans, membership in the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), sick and vacation time, and 15 paid holidays a year. Eligible employees are also able to participate in the fee waiver education program. A summary of benefit information can be found here.

Position Information:

Work status: Full-time/Exempt/Probationary  

Academic year schedule: Monday through Friday (8:00 am – 5:00 pm), some evenings/weekends.

Summer schedule: Monday through Thursday (7:00 am - 5:30 pm), some evenings/weekends.

Staff: The application deadline is March 5, 2025 at 11:55pm (PST)

As of January 1, 2022, the CSU Out-of-State Employment Policy prohibits the hiring of employees to perform CSU-related work outside the state of California.

California State University, San Bernardino is not a sponsoring agency for staff or management positions (i.e. H1-B Visas).

Conditions of Employment

Background Check

Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check) is required for employment.  CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information.  Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position.

Drivers License Check

Possession of a valid Driver's License is required.  Employees in this position will be enrolled in the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Government Employer Pull Notice Program which confirms possession of a valid driver's license and reflects driving record.

Mandated Reporter

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.

I-9

CSUSB hires only individuals lawfully authorized to work in the United States. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.  See Form I-9 Acceptable Documents at https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents.

Statement of Commitment to Diversity

In our commitment to the furthering of knowledge and fulfilling our educational mission, California State University, San Bernardino seeks a campus climate that welcomes, celebrates, and promotes respect for the entire variety of human experience. We welcome people from all backgrounds, and we seek to include knowledge and values from many cultures in the curriculum and extra-curricular life of the campus community. We will create, promote, and maintain activities and programs that further our understanding of individual and group diversity. We will also develop and communicate policies and promote values that discourage intolerance and discrimination.

California State University, San Bernardino is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, caste, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, protected military or veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. This position adheres to CSU policies against Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Violence, including Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Stalking. This requires completion of Sexual Violence Prevention Training within 6 months of assuming employment and on a two-year basis thereafter. (Executive Order 1096) For more information about Diversity & Inclusion at CSUSB, please visit https://www.csusb.edu/human-resources/diversity-inclusion

Closing Statement:

Reasonable Accommodation

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact CSUSB Benefits at benefits@csusb.edu.

Smoking

CSUSB is a smoke and tobacco-free campus.  See policy at  https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/6591951/latest/.

Clery Act

In compliance with state and federal crime awareness and campus security legislation, including The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, California Education Code section 67380, and the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), the Cal State San Bernardino Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available at: https://www.csusb.edu/clery-act