EVENING RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields - each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences - then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Responsible for planning, coordinating, developing, and implementing a professional individual and group counseling program for assigned students. Providing a safe and positive living environment that delivers guidance to students to ensure positive group living relations and achievement in the program in compliance with government, corporate, and management directives.

Pay: $54,304.00

Hours: Sunday-Tuesday: 1pm-10pm, Wednesday: 12pm-9pm, Thursday: 1pm-10pm

Vacation: Minimum of ten days per year. Actual days are based upon your Service Date

Sick Time: Ten days per year

Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year

Work Model: Onsite

• Provides structured classes for students in employability skills and emotional development. Classes will include grief/loss, handling interpersonal conflict and how to deal with homesickness, among others. Other classes will cover communication, self-care, and other skills focused on developing and improving student retention and success.
• Develop methods for obtaining feedback from staff and students on new topics and subjects needed for curriculum development.
• Maintain curriculum electronically and/or in hardcopy in an organized way. Develop lesson plans for each class. Groups/classes will be interactive to encourage strong student participation.
• Develop activities promoting interpersonal skills that can be easily incorporated into existing meetings or group sessions facilitated by non-counseling staff.
• Conducts periodic focus groups and provides feedback to appropriate entities; modifies programming based on student feedback.
• Provides daily communication to the Counseling Manager and other Counselors regarding any concerns for student issues revealed during evening hours.
• Maintain positive and effective relationships with students. Provide guidance for students to achieve a positive attitude, proper behavior and goal achievement.
• Coordinate and assist with any social development activities promoting self-skills and professional growth with dorm and/or recreation staff.
• Work with the Residential Living Manager to develop and execute a rotating schedule of presenting mini-sessions or activities at dormitory meetings.
• Perform all other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in human services, psychology, counseling, education, social science, communications, or closely related field, OR,
  • Associate's degree in human services, psychology, counseling, education, social science, communications, or closely related field, and two years related experience may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree. Experience may include successful Job Corps outreach and admissions experience or successful outreach and admissions experience with other youth development programs.
• Three (3) years' experience in sales, marketing, or counseling.
• Successfully pass background check and/drug test required on the contract.
• Current valid Driver's License and an acceptable driving record.

Reasonable Accommodation:

CGS will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any if its subsidiaries, please email ada@chugachgov.com

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Chugach is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.